618 NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes subshrubby, erect or more rarely climbing, sometimes 

 shrubs, glabrous, pubescent or villose (with foetid odour) ; leaves 

 opposite, entire,^ dentate, pinnatifid or 1- 2- or 3-pinnatisect; flowers^ 

 in cymes oftener terminal, compound or decompound racemose, some- 

 times contracted and spikelike or capituliform ; bracts free or rarely 

 connate.^ {Cold and temp, reg, of north, hemisjoh,, N., And. and extra- 

 trop. S. America.*) 



8. Centranthus DC/ — Flowers of Plectritis (or Valeriana); corolla 

 tube long- and narrow-spurred anteriorly to middle or below, divided 

 internally by a vertical septum into 2 unequal cellules f limb imbricate. 

 Stamen 1/ lateral, exserted. Germen inferior; ovule in fertile cell 1 , 

 descending. Fruit nearly of Valeriana, 5-15, plumose-ciliate crowned 

 with strips of pappus,^ sometimes 1-nerved, sometimes rather concave, 

 bearing nervelike sterile cells ; exalbuminous seed &c. of Valeriana. — 

 Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes shrubby at base ; leaves entire, 

 or lower and upper dentate or pinnatisect ; inflorescences ^ compound 

 cymose, often corymbiform (of Valeriana). {Medit. reg.^^) 



1 Either all or the lower; the others more or Icon. PL Boss. t. 19, 346, 350. — Fr. et Sav. En. 

 less divided in the same plant. PL Jap. i. 217.— Sibth. FL Grcec. t. 33. — Will. 



2 White or pink. et Lang. Prodr. FL Hisp. ii. 1. — Gr. et Godr. 

 2 E. g. in V. saliuncn All. (sect. PJmopsis FL de Fr. ii. 54; Bot. Mag. t. 1825. — Walp. 



Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. xii. 28 (not Griseb.). Rep. ii. 528, 944; vi. 80 ; Ann. i. 381, 986; ii. 



< Spec, ahout 120. R. et Pay. FL Fer.t. 65 a, 801 ; v. 138 (part). 

 b, 66, 67, 68 a, 69 b, 70.— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et * FL Fr. iv. 238 ; Not. VaL 14 ; Prodr. iv. 238. 



Sp. t. 273-276. — PoiPP. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. — Endl. Gen. n. 2185. —Payer, Organog. 624, t. 



t. 215-219.— C. Gay, Fl. CML iii. 213.— Wall. 133.— H. Bn. Paijer Fam. Nat. 242.— B. H. Gen. 



PL As. liar, t 263. — Wight, IlL t. 129 ; Icon. 155, n. Q.—Kentranthus Neck, Ekm. n. 207. 

 t. 1043-1046.— DcNE. Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 93. — ^ One anterior spurred ; the other postero- 



Kl. Waldem. Reis. Bot. t.85. — Coll. Mtm. Acad. lateral enclosing the style and stamen. 

 Boiwn. xxxviii. t. 21. — Torr. Fl.N.-York, t. 45. "^ " Sometimes 2." 



— Hook. FL Bor.-Amer. t. 101. — A. Gray, Proc. * Concerning which see Yauch. Phys, PL ii. 



Amer. Acad.y. 322.~Chapm. FL S. Un. St. 183. 717. 



— Cav. Icon. t. 456. — Sm. Ic. Lied. t. 52. — Wedd. ^ Flowers red, pink or white. 



Chlor. Andm. ii. 17, t. 48, 49.— Philip. Linnaa, lo Spec. 5, 6. Sibth. FL Grcec. i. 29-31 {Vale- 



xxviii. 697 ; xxx. 191. — Turcz. BttlL Mosc. riana). — Cav. Icon. t. 353 {Valeriana). — Rchb. 



(1852) ii. 171.— Desf. Ann. Mus. xi. t. 28.— Ic. FL Germ. t. 717, 718.— Mor. FL Sard. t. 78 



Harv. and Sond. FL Cap. iii. 40. — Jaitb. et Sp. (2). — Boiss. Voy. Esp. t. 85 A; Biagn. Or. ser. 



IlL PI. Or. t. 9.— Boiss. Biagn, Or. ser. 2, 117; 2, ii. 119 ; Fl. Or. iii. 91.— Ball, Jotirn. linn. 



Fl. Or. iii. 85.— Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 143.— /Sor. xvi. 490.— Willk. et Lang. Pro^r. FA ^wp. 



Jacq. FL Austr. t. 219, 267-269.— Reichb. Ic. ii. 4.— Gren. et Godr. FLdeFr. ii. 52.— Walp 



FL Germ. t. 719-728 ; Icon. Bot. t. 59.— Ledeb. Rep. vi. 80 ; Ann. i. 381 ; ii. 801. 



