Nardostaahys.] lxxvi. taleeianej!. (C. B. Clarke.) 211 



N. Jatamansl, DC. Mem. Valer. 7, t. 1, Prodr. iv. 624; Royle III. 

 242-244, t. 54. N. grandiflora, DC. I. c. 8, t. 2, Prodr. iv. 624; Wall. 'Pl. As. 

 Par. iii. 40. Patrinia Jatainansi, Dan Prodr. 159, and in lamb. Cinch. 177, 

 with Jig. Valeriana Jatamansi, WaU. Cat. 431, not of Jams and Moxh. Fedia 

 grandiflora, WaU. Cat. 1187. 



AiPiNB HiMAiATA, alt. 11-15,000 ft.; from Kumaon to Sikkim, ascending to 

 17,000 ft. in Sikkim, J. D. H. 



Eootstoek -woody, long, stout, covered with f tres from the petioles of withered 

 leaves. Stem 4-24 in., more or less pubescent upwards, often glabrate below, sub- 

 seapose. Radical leaves 6-8 by 1 in., longitudinally nerved, glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent, narrowed into the petiole ; cauliue 1 or 2 pairs, 1-3 in. long, sessile, oblong 

 or subovate. Flower-heads usually 1, 3 or 6; bracts J in., oblong, usually pubescent. 

 Corolla-tube \ in. long, somewhat hairy within, as are the filanaents below. Fruit ^ in. 

 long, covered with ascending white hairs, crowned by the ovate, acute, often dentate 

 calyx-teeth. — There are two forms of this plant: a large-flowered, with usually 

 glabrous bracts, and a smaller one, with the corollas-tube scarcely ^ in. long, and the 

 bracts densely shortly hairy ; various intermediates occur. The product spikenard 

 discussed by Sir W. Jones {Asiat. Besearch. ii. 405) was doubtless derived from JVar- 

 dostachys ; biit the plant figured as Valeriana Jatamansi is V, Wallickii, DC. 



3. VAZiERXANA, Linn. 



Perennial herts (the Indian species). Leaves entire pinnatifid or pinnate, 

 radical often long-petioled and undivided. Cymes corymboselypanioled ; bracts 

 small, oblong or linear, persistent, free or nearly so. Calyx-limb in flower ob- 

 scure, unroLing in fruit into 6-15 plumose bristles united at base into a short 

 vride funnel-shaped tube. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, base equal or sub-gibbous ; . 

 lobes 5, spreading, pink or white. Stamens 3. Ovary S-celled, 1-ovuled ; 

 stigma shortly- 2-3-fid or subentire. Fruit oblong-lanceolate, compressed, plano- 

 convex, with 3 dorsal, 1 ventral, and 2 submarginal ribs, 1-celled, the 2 barren 

 cells obsolete, crowned by the persistent pappus-like calyx. — Disieib. Species 

 160, in moist temperate and cool regions. 



1. V. dioica, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 637; glabrous, radical leaves long- 

 petioled ovate entire obtuse, cauline pinnatifid, lateral lobes few narrow terminal 

 obtuse, fruit glabrous. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 85. V. pusilla, Poyle III. 241. 



Tempeeatb Westeen Himalaya, from Kashmir to the Karakorum, alt. 11-13,000 

 ft. ; frequent, C. B. Clarke, &c., and in Lahul, Jaesohke. — Sistbib. N. W. Asia, 

 Europe. 



Eootstoek slender, decumbent, stoloniferous. Stem 8-16 in.,, erect, simple, nodes 

 microscopically pilose. Flowers dioecious or polygamo-monoecious ; corymbs of $ 

 compact, of ? more lax, especially in fruit; upper bracts Jin., broadly linear, usually 

 exceeding the fruit. 



2. V. officinalis, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 641 ; subglabrous, leaves pinnate, ' 

 segments numerous narrow entire or toothed, coi^mb large lax, fruit glabrous. 

 Boise. Fl. Orient, iii. 89. V. dubia, Bvnge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 52 ;, Ledeb. Ic. 

 Fl. Boss. t. 350. 



NoBTH Kashmir ; Sonamurg, alt. 8-9000 ft., Thomson, Levinge, C. B. Clarke; 

 Kunzlwan, alt. 7600 ft., C. B. Cla/rke. — Distbib. North and West Asia, Europe. 



Bootstock short, suberect, hardly thicker than the stem, stoloniferous. Stem 1-3 

 ft., erect, corymbose above, nodes minutely hairy. Eadical leaves at flo-wering time 

 Or pinnate ; the leaves on lateral autumn offsets near the root are often o-t^ate entire 

 or slightly toothed ; cauline several, all pinnate ; lobes (in the Indian plant, which is 

 eiactly V. duhia, Burge) narrowly oblong or linear, often entire, much or sparingly 

 toothed. Upper bracts jg in., oblong-linear, shorter than the fruits.— The European' 



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