64. VALERIANE.*:. 103 



DLSTEIB. Japan and Cliina. 



Galium rotundifolium LINN.; DC. Prodr. IV. p. 599; HOOK f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. HI. p. 204 ; HAY ATA Mater. Fl. Fornios. p. 148. 



HAB. Randaizan ; Mt. Morrison, Mt. Arizan. 



DISTRIB. Europe, India, North Africa, Western Asia. 



OBSERV. Perennial, procumbent. Stem angular in section, hispidu- 

 lous (hairs retrorse.), internodes 3 cm. long. Leaves 4-verticillatej sessile, ob- 

 long or ovate, 13 mm. long, 6 mm. broad, shortly acute at the apex, suddenly 

 attenuate at the base, tri-nerved, margin nearly entire and ciliate, hairy on 

 the nerves of both surfaces, (hairs longer J mm. long, divaricate and retrorse), 

 !Vi<>- hairy hairs shorter and fewer. Cymes axillary, paniculate, ternate, 

 branches divaricate. Flowers o-verticillate at the apex of the branches of 

 cymes, pedicels about 1 mm. long. Calyx-tube glabrous, about ^ mm. in dia- 

 meter, densely covered with falcate hairs. Gjrolla rotate, 4-loljed, 1] mm. 

 in diameter, lol>es ovate, ram. long, obtuse at the apex. Stamens 4, 

 style mm. long, deeply 2-fid, stigma capitellate. Fruits didymous broadly 

 obcordate, 1 mm. long, 1| mm. broad, densely covered with straight divari- 

 cate falcate hairs. 



64. Valerianeae. 



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Corolla shortly o-lol^ed, stamens 4 perfect, bracts narrowed, free, brac- 

 teoles large ad pressed to fruits, appendiculate, collora white or 



V(-lloW. ............................................. Potiini". 1 



Corolla 4-5-fid, nearly equal. Stamens 4, perfect, bracteoles 4, flowers light 

 pink ............................................ Trifloategia. 2 



1. Patritiifi Juss. 



K< ij to tl<e Fornios(tn Species. 



Leaves ovate dentate villose, flowers white ..................... P. vittose. 



Leaves pinnatifid glabrous, flowers yellow ................. P. sccdnoscefdia. 



