190 43. VALERIAN A CE^. 



Order XLIII. VALE MANAGED. 



Cal. superior ; limb various, toothed, or inconspicuous, or 

 involute and ultimately resembling a pappus. Cor. tubular, 

 3 5-lobed, unequal or irregular often spurred or gibbous at 

 the base. Stain. 1 3, inserted in the tube, free, fewer than 

 the cor.-lobes. Ovary with 1 perfect fertile cell and often 

 2 abortive cells ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fr. dry. No 

 ^stipules. 



1. KENTRANTHUS. Cor. 5-lobed, with a spur. Stam. I. Fr. 

 1-celled, indehiscent, crowned with the limb of the calyx 

 expanded into a feathery pappus. 



2. VALERIANA. Cor. 5-lobed, gibbous but without a spur. 

 Stam. 3. Fr. 1-celled, indehiscent, crowned with the limb 

 of the calyx expanded into a feathery pappus. 



3. VALEHIAXELLA. Cor. 5-lobed, without a spur. Stam. 3. 

 Fr. ^-celled, indehiscent. crowned with the erect unequally 

 toothed limb of the calyx, 2 of the cells usually empty inflated 

 or filiform. 



1. KENTRAN'THUS Neck. 



1. K. ruber (DC.) ; 1. lanceolate stalked, upper 1. ovate- 

 lanceolate sessile, spur much shorter than the cor. -tube twice 

 as long as the germen. Valeriana Sm. E. B. 1531. St. 1 

 2 feet hiirh. FL purple or white. Chalk-pits and old walls. 

 P. VI. IX. Red Vakrian. E. I. 



*2. K. Calcitrdpa (Dufr.) ; radical 1. ovate entire, stem-1. 

 pinnatifid, spur very short. Sy. E. B. 665. Eltham, Kent 

 [apparently now extinct]. E. 



2. YALERIA'NA Linn. Valerian. 



1. V. officindlis (L.) ; I. all pinnate, Its. 9 21 lanceolate den- 

 tate-serrate terminal one not larger than the others, st. sulcate 

 solitary, fr. glabrous ovate-oblong. R. xii. 727. St. 9. 

 St. 24 ft. high. Fl. flesh-coloured. Eadical 1. on long stalks. 

 -* a ; Its. usually 9 11 near together, their anterior edge nearly 

 entire, the posterior edge strongly toothed. With suckers, not 

 stoles. 13. V. sambucifolia (Mikan) ; Its. of rt.-l. ovate-acute, 

 of st.-l. oblong-lanceolate, all toothed on both edges. E. B. 698. 

 Term. It. of "rt.-l. often slightly the largest. Stoles long. 

 Ditches, marshes and damp places. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



