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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



4. Phyllactis PeesJ— Flowers nearly of Valerianella, oftener 

 3-androus. Fruit 3-celled ; sterile cells narrow, nervelike or scarcely 

 perceptible (EuphyUactis ^), or more rarely subequal to the fertile one, 

 often confluent sometimes opening outwards (Astrephia ^) ; crowned 

 with short or very short calyx sometimes subnil (or 0). Other 

 characters of Valerianella. — Perennial herbs, erect or loosely ramose 

 or climbing, more rarely undershrubs or (Euphyllactis) shrubs;'' leaves 

 entire, dentate, pinnatifid or once or twice pinnatisect ; flowers ^ in 

 compound more or less loosely racemose or contracted and capituliform 

 cymes, axillary or terminal ; bracts very various in form, free or 

 connate. (Warm and temp. N. and S. especially And. America.^) 



5. Plectritis DC/ — Flowers (nearly of Phijllactis or Valerianella) 

 irregular, or 3-androus; calyx very short annular or 0. Corolla 

 tubular at base ; tube long- and narrow- spurred anteriorly at base ; 

 limb scarcely irregular, 5-lobed, imbricate. Germen 3-celled ; 1 cell 

 fertile ; style shortly 3-lobed at apex. Fruit dry ; 2 sterile cells 

 nervelike or dilated to short thick incurved connivent wings, attenuate 

 at margin. Seed &c. of Phijllactis. — Annual herbs ;^ leaves entire, 

 sinuate or dentate ; flowers ^ terminal or axillary to upper leaves and 

 in compound ramose contracted spikelike or capituhform cymes. 

 {California^ Chili.^^) 



vi. 92 ; FL Or. iii. 94.— Lang. Fl. Nov, Sisp. t. 

 28. — WiLLK. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. ii. 7. — 

 Woods, 2V. Linn. Soc. xvii. 421, t. 21. — Ball. 

 Spicil. Marocc. Journ. Linn. Soc. (1878) 491. — 

 Gb. et GoDR. Fl. de Fr. ii. 58.— Fr. et Sav. 

 Fnum. PI. Jap. i. 217.— Walp. Fep. ii. 526, 528, 

 944 {Fedia) ; vi. 79; Ann. ii. 801. 



^ Synops. i. 39 (1805).— B. H. Gen. ii. 153, 

 n. 4. 



2 Not Wedd. {Phyllactis of authors). 



3 DuFR. Val. (1811) 50 (part).— DC. Not. Val. 

 12 ; Frodr. iv. 629.— Endl. Qen. n. 2182.— B. 

 H. Gen. ii. 153, n. 3. — Hemesotria Rafin. Ann. 

 Fhys. vi. 88. — Oligacoce^ . (ex Endl.). — Forte- 

 via Hook. Icon. t. 864.— Karst. Fl. Colonib. ii. 

 99, t. 151. — Amblj/orrhina Turcz. Bull. Mosc. 

 (1852) ii. 168. 



■* Very various in habit (char, not gen.) : 

 slender climbing plants, not unlike Funiaria or 

 Cardiospermum, &c. (P. chcBrophylloides)^ or with 

 habit and leaves of Valerianella {F. Manduniana), 



MulinecB (F. crassipes), Monocotyledone^ (F. ri- 

 gida, bracteata), soractimes of the small moun- 

 tain SaxifragecB and Frimulacem (F. aretioides), 

 or with short thick cordate leaves highly im- 

 bricate (P. cordifolia), &c. 



* White or pink. 



6 Spec. 30-35. DC. Frodr.iY. 632, 633 {Vale- 

 riancB sect. 1, 2).— R. et Pav. FL Fer. t. 65, 68, 

 69 {Valeriana). — Pcepp. etENDL. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 PI. t. 214 {Valeriana). — Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. 

 Fole Sud,i. 16 {Valeriana). — Wedd. Chi. Andin. 

 ii. 28, t. 47.— Walp. Rep. ii. 528 {Astrephia) ; 

 Ann. V. 157 {Amblyorrhina). 



1 Not. Valer. 13 ; Frodr. iv. 631.— Endl. Gen. 

 n. 2184.— B. H. Gen. ii. 155, n. 8.—? Fetckea 

 DC. Not. Valer. 18 ; Frodr. iy. 642. 



8 Appearance of Valerianella (of which per- 

 haps better a sect., habit peculiar ?). 



9 Pink. 



10 Spec. 3. LiNDL. Bot. Reg. t. 1091 {Valeria- 

 ndUi).—\Yx\.v. Rep. ii. 528, 531 {Betckea). 



