Valeriana.'] Lxxvi. valbrianejS. (C. B. Clarke.) 213 



8. v. Walllobll, DC. Mem. Valer. 15, i. 4 ; pubescent, radical leaves 

 seyeral long-petioled cordapte--ovate', oauline- few or much smaller entire or pin- 

 nate, fruit hairy or nearly glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 640; Wall. PI. As. liar. 

 iii. 40. V. vUiosa,. Wall. Cat. 433, nat of Thumb. V. Jatamansi, Jonei in 

 Asiat. Research, n.ftff. at p.- 405 ; Roxb. m Adat. Research, iv. 433, Fl. Ind. 163 

 (se&'Royle III. 243). V. Spica, Vahl Srmtn. ii. 13. 



Temperate Himalata>; fwm Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft. Khasia Mts., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft.— DisTEiB. Affghanistan. 



Bootsiock horizontal, thick, ■with thick descending fibres. Stem 6-18 in., often 

 decumbent below, very rarely divided. Badical leava often 1-3 in. diam., deeply 

 cordate, usually acute and tooth«d. Corymb 1-3 in. diam., not very lax eveu in fruit ; 

 bracteoles oblong-linear, as long as the fi-uit. — The typical large form of this, with 

 acute toothed radical leaves and piJose fruits, is easily separable from V. pyrolcsfolia ; 

 but there are smaller examples with the radical leaves elliptic entire, the fruits nearly 

 glabrous, which are very near V. pt/roltefolia. Jones and Roxburgh named this plant 

 V. Jatamansi, under the misapprehension (subsequently corrected by Wallich and 

 Eoyle independently) that i6 produced the Jatamansi spikenard of Nardostaohys. The 

 bame V. Jatamansi is hence to be suppressed. 



9. V. K»rdwlckli, Watt, in Rowb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey ^ Wall. i. 166 ; 

 pubescent below, leaves pinnate, pinnules 1-5 lanceolate acute, radical undivided 

 usually disappearing before fruit-time, corymb in fruit lax, fruit hairy. Wall. 

 Cat. 432, PI. As. Rar. .39, t. 263; Don Prodr. 159; DC. Prodr. iv. 640. V. 

 HardwicMana, Roem. St Schult. Syst. i. Mamt. 259. V. tenera, Wall. Cat. 435 ; 

 DC. Mem. Valei: 16, Prodr. iv. 640. V. elata, Don Prodr. 159. V. javanica, 

 Blume Bijd. 919. V. acuminata, Royle lU. 241. 



Tempehatb Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 4-12,000 ft. Khasla Mts., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. — DrsTBiB. Java. 



'Bootstock hardly thickened, descendt'ng, fibrous. Stem 1-5 ft., erect, usually 

 simple or corymbose only upwards, above often glabrous, nodes little pilose or some- 

 times densely while-barbate (F". aeuminata, Eoyle). Badieal lecives long-petioled, 

 ovate, acute; lower rarely undivided {V. tenera. Wall.) ; cauline several, leaflets often 

 3, rirely more than 5, upper smaiU. Corymb in fruit often 1 foot, repeatedly dichoto- 

 mous, ultimate branchlets very short; upper bracteoles much shorter than the 

 fruit. 



Vak. Hoffmeisteri, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 84 (sp.); stem strict slen- 

 derer nearly glabrous, leaves smaller, fruits glabrous or nearly so. Valeriana, sp. 10, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. # T.— Himalaya, alt. 10-12,000 ft.— Identified with V. Hoff- 

 meisteri from Klotzsch's description oidy ; it is not rare at high levels. 



Var. Arnottiana, Wight le. t. 1045-6 (sp.); lai^e, middle cauline leaves often 

 large with 7-9 large lanceolate pubescent leaflets, corymbs often large dense with ulti- 

 mate branchlets 1-2 in. long. — Neilgherry Mts., alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight. 



10. V. Koonii, Am. in Herb Hook. ; sparin^y pubescent, large, radical 

 and lower cauline leaves pinnate with many leaflets, middle cauline pinnate with 

 3-5 leaflets, fruits glabrous. V. villosa, Moon Cat. 5, not of Thuiib. V. Hard- 

 wickii, Thwaites Enum. 159. 



Ceylon, alt. 6Q00 ft. ; frequent, 



Bootsiock long, horizontal, not woody nor' thickened, fibrous at the distant nodes. 

 Stem often 4 ft., nearly glabrous. Leaves gradually reduced in size and number of 

 leaflets from the base upwards. Corymb close rm flower, not exceeding 6 in. Fruit 

 larger and wider than in V. HardwicMi, with the dorsal nerves wider apart, perfectly 

 glabrous. — Thwaites has sent this plant as V. Hookeriana (C.P. 150), and »s V. Arnot- 

 tiana (C.P. 1729): these are exactly alike, and there is no other Ceylon form ; which, 

 (as noted by Sir J. D. H. in Thwaites Enum.) may be a var. of F. Rardwickii with 

 glabrous fruit. It dries very black. 



