210 Lxxvi. VALEEUNEj). (C. B. Clarke.) 



Westben Himalaya; Kashmir, alt. 7-12,000 ft.. Falconer, C. B. Clarke; Kuna- 

 ■vfur, Soyle, Thomson, &c. — Distrib. Persia. 



Very similar to A. cynanchica, and scarcely distinguishable except by the shorter 

 always opposife leaves, shorter blunter bracts, and tomentose more capitate flowers ; 

 these latter have a longer corolla than in Persian brachyantha, in which the corolla is 

 described by Boissier as of a dirty yellow colour. The colour of the Indian ones is 

 not recorded. 



Order LXXVI. VAXiERXANSS!. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Herts or (a few non-Indian species) shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, 

 Ijut often united at the base by a stipule-like line or rim, entire pinnatifid or 

 pinnate. 1^/owej's sessile, cymose, sometimes pol^ gamous or dioecious, bracteate. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to tHe ovary ; limb obsolete in flower, in fruit often enlarged 

 or pappose. CoroUa superior ; tube equal or gibbous or spurred at the base ; 

 lobes 3-5, imbricated in bud. Stamens 1-4, on the corolla-tube. Ovary inferior, 

 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled, or one 1-ovuled, the oth3rs barren or imperfect ; style 

 filiform, stigma 2-3-lobed or undivided ; ovules pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, 

 dry, 1-seeded, the two barren cells enlarged- or reduced to filiform ridges. Seed 

 pendulous; albumen or scanty; embryo straight, radicle superior. — Distkib. 

 Species 300, all cool and temperate regions except Australia and S. Africa. 



Stamen 1 , corolla yellow, calyx in fruit very small 1. Pathinu. 



Stamens 4, corolla red, calyx in fruit equally 5-lobed 2. Naedostachys. 



Stamens 3, calyx pappose in fruit 3. Vaxbriana. 



Stamens 3, calyx epappose in fruit 4. Taiekianella. 



1. PATRIITZA, Juss. 



Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves entire or 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnate. Cymes 

 corymbosely panicled ; bracts narrow, free. Calyx-limb small or 0, not enlarged 

 in fruit. Corolla-tube short or long; lobes 5, suhequal, spreading, yellow. 

 St.amens 1, or 3-5. Ovary 3-Cfilled ; stigma capitate ; ovules 1 in each cell, or 

 more often 2 cells barren. Fruit small, 3-celled, 1-seeded, the ban-en cells 

 equalling the fertile or . nearly so. — DisiRlB. Species 12, N. Asiatic and 

 Sikkim. 



1. P. monandra, C. B. Clarke ; corolla smaU symmetric shortly funnel- 

 shaped, stamen 1, fruit within an orbicular scarious veined bracteole. 



Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 4000 ft.; Simonbong, J. D. H.; Yoksun, Hee, C. B,, 

 Clarke. 



Stem 2-4 ft., pubescent. Leaves entire or pinnatifid, terminal lobe oblong or 

 linear, coarsely crenate-serrate or entire, sparsely pubescent. Panicle often 1^ ft. 

 long, and broad. CoroHffl i in. long. jSifi^ma ' peltate. Bracteole oi the fruit \ in. 

 diam., as broad or broader than long, beautifully veined. — Hance (Symh. ad Fl. 

 Sinic. 5) does not mention the number of stamens in his P. graveolens, which may 

 benee be either the Indian plant or the 4-stamened P. ovata, Bunge (Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 Chin, et Monghol. 23, t. 2). 



2. NARSOSTACXVS, DC. 



Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves entire, radical elongate spathulate ; cauline 

 few. Flmoers capitate, heads in cymes ; bracts oblong, free or nearly so. Calyx- 

 limb 5-lobed ; in fruit enlarged, membranousj veined. Corolla tubular-campanu- 

 late, base subequal; lobes 6, spreading, rosy. Stamens 4. Ovary S-celled, 

 1-ovuled ; style linear, stigma capitate. Fi-uit obovate, compressed, 3-celled, 1- 

 { seeded, the 2 barren cells smaller than the fertile. Seed obovate, compressed. 



