Valeriana."] LXXVI. YALERIANEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 213 



8. V. Wallicfcii, DC. Mem. Valer. 15, t. 4 ; pubescent, radical leaves 

 several long-petioled cordate-ovate; cauline few or much smaller entire or pin- 

 nate, fruit hairy or nearly glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 640 ; Wall. PL As. Rar. 

 iii. 40. V. villosa, Wall. Cat. 433, not of Thunb. V. Jatamansi, Jones in 

 Asiat. Research, \\.jig. at p. 405 ; Roxb. in Asiat. Research, iv. 433, Fl. 2nd. 163 

 (see Royle III. 243). V..ISpica r Vahl Enum. ii. 13. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA,; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 



Rootstock horizontal, thick, with thick descending fibres. Stem 6-18 in., often 

 decumbent below, very rarely divided. Radical leave* often 1-3 in. diam., deeply 

 cordate, usually acute and toothed. Corymb 1-3 in. diam., not very lax eveu in fruit ; 

 bracteoles oblong-linear, as long as the fruit. The typical large form of this, with 

 acute toothed radical leaves and pilose fruits, is easily separable from V. pyrohefolia ; 

 tut there are smaller examples with the radical leaves elliptic entire, the fruits nearly 

 glabrous, which are very near V.pyroltefolia. Jones and Roxburgh named this plant 

 V. Jatamansi, under the misapprehension (subsequently corrected by Wallich and 

 Royle independently) that it produced the Jatamansi spikenard of Nardostachys. The 

 name V. Jatamansi is hence to be suppressed. 



9. V. Hardwickii, Watt, in Roxb. Fl. 2nd., ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 166 ; 

 pubescent below, leaves pinnate, pinnules 1-5 lanceolate acute, radical undivided 

 usuallv disappearing before fruit-time, corymb in fruit lax, fruit hairy. Wall. 

 Cat. 432, PL As. Rar. 39, t, 263; Don Prodr. 159; DC. Prodr. iv. 640. V. 

 Hardwickiana, Roem. $ Schult. Syst. i. Mant. 259. V. tenera, Wall. Cat. 435 ; 

 DC. Mem. Taler.-lQ, Prodr. iv. 640. V. elata, Don Prodr. 159. V. javanica, 

 Bb'.me Bijd. 919. V. acuminata, Royle III. 241. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 4-12,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



Rootstock hardly thickened, descending, fibrous. Stem 1-5 ft., erect, usually 

 simple or corymbose only upwards,, above often glabrous, nodes little pilose or some- 

 times densely white-barbate ( V. acuminata, Royle). Radical leaves long-petioled, 

 ovate, acute; lower rarely undivided (V. tenera, Wall.); cauline several, leaflets often 

 3, nrely more than 5, upper small. Corymb in fruit often 1 foot, repeatedly dichoto- 

 mous, ultimate branchlets very short; upper bracteoles much shorter than the 

 fruit. 



VAK. Hoffmeisteri, Klotzsch in. Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 84 (sp.); stem strict slen- 

 derer nearly glabrous, leaves smaller, fruits glabrous or nearly so. Valeriana. sp. 10, 

 Herb. 2nd. Or. 22. f. $ T. Himalaya, alt. 10-12,000 ft. Identified with V. Hoff- 

 meisteri from Klotzsch s description only ; it is- not rare at high levels. 



\ T A.R. Arnottiana, Wight Ic. t. 1045-6 (sp.); large, middle cauline leaves often 

 large with 7-9 large lanceolate pubescent leaflets, corymbs often large dense with ulti- 

 mate branchlets 1-2 in. long. Neilgherry Mts., alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight. 



10. V. Moonii, Am. in Herb Hook. ; sparingly pubescent, large, radical 

 and lower cauline leaves pinnate with many leaflets, middle cauline pinnate with 

 3-5 leaflets, fruits glabrous. V. villosa, Moon Cat. 5, not of Thunb. V. Hard- 

 wickii, Thivaites JEnum. 159. 



CEYLON, alt. 6000 ft. ; frequent. 



Rootstock long, horizontal, not woody nor thickened, fibrous at the distant nodes. 

 Stem often 4 ft., nearly glabrous. Leaves gradually reduced in size and number of 

 leaflets from the base upwards. Corymb close in flower, not exceeding 6 in. Fruit 

 larger and wider than in V. Hardwickii, with the dorsal nerves wider apart, perfectly 

 glabrous. Thwaites has sent this plant as V. Hookeriana, (C.P. 150), and as y. Antoi~ 

 tiana (C.P. 1729): these are exactly alike, and there is no other Ceylon form ; which 

 (as noted by Sir J. D. H. in Thwaites Enum.) may be a var. of V. Hardwickii with' 

 glabrous fruit. It dries very black. 



