416 



Plmiis oj the Punjab. 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Valeriana Wallichii, likt^ the last species, but the radical leaves are sharp- 



Baln mushk. pointedly toothed; iriiit hairy, stem leaves sometimes 



Valerianace^. compound. The root is used in Indian medicine as an 



F. B. I. iii. 213. anti-spasmodic. 



Valerianella 

 dentata, 

 Narrowfooted 

 Cornsalad, 



VALERIANACE.5i3. 

 F. B. I. iii. 214. 



Kashmir. 



Valerianella 

 Szovitziana, 



VALERIANACEiE. 

 F. B. I. iii. 214. 



Kashmir, 

 5-6,000 ft. 



small, annual, branching, smooth or minutely velvety ; 

 leaves 1-1 -| by |-| in., oblong, entire or somewhat toothed ; 

 flowers vvhite, in small heads forming flat-topped brandling 

 clusters, bracts small, narrowly lanceolate, calyx obliquely 

 abruptly cut across, toothed, much shorter than the fruit, 

 corolla-tube short, lobes 5, spreading, stamens 3, style 



minutely 3-fid ; fruit -j^- 

 reduced to thread-like 



in., ovoid, velvety, bcirren cells 

 ridges, the 2 thread-like cells 



forming a rim round an ovate-oblong slight depression, 



small to medium size, annual, minutely velvety, leaves 

 2 by ^ in., oblong-linear, somewhat toothed, fruit ^-^ in., 

 ovate-oblong, scarcel}^ curved, velvet}^ or hairy, barren 

 cells as large as the fertile, calyx shortly cylindric, with 



one long horizontal linear tooth 

 the last species. 



Flowers, minute, in heads. 



All tubular. 



for other characters see 



Adenostemma 

 viscosum. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 242. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 



Saussurea 

 obvallata, 



Saussurea Schultzii, 



medium size, annual, sticky and velvety, or smooth, 

 robust or slender ; leaves 6 by 3 in., lanceolate or ovate, 

 coarsely toothed, narrowed into the stalk, uppermost 

 sessile ; flowers minute, white, all tubular in discoid heads 

 I in. forming flat-topped branching clusters, bracts round, 

 heads green, in 2-series, pappus of 3 or 4 short club-hke 

 scales, corollas | in., 5-lobed, dilated upwards, style- arms 

 long, thick ; achenes | in., 3-4 angled, sticky. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Saussurea Atkinson!, see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Saussurea 

 sorocephala, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



