214 Lxxvi. TALEEiANEj;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Valeriand, 



11. V. XXookerlana, W. Sr A. Prodr. 4AA ; sparingly puliescent, radical 

 and lower cauline leaves pinnate with, numerous leaflets, upper cauline few 

 reduced or 0, fruit hairy. Wight III. t. 129. 



Mrs. of the Deocan, Nilghkbkt, Ptjlnht, and Kuko, Wight, G. Thomson. 



Eootstock woody, thick, horizontal, fibres thick. Stem 10-30 in , subecapose, nodes 

 bearded. Leaves braoteiform except near the base of the stem, where they are pinnate 

 with a large ovate toothed terminal lobe. Corymb nsuallj' compact in flower, in fruit 

 sometimes elongate and laxly panicled.— Very doubtfully distinct from V. Moonii. 



12. V. Xieschenaultll, DC. Mem. Falei: 17; sparingly pubescent, 

 radical leaves petioled oblong subentire, cauline few or several often sub-lyrate 

 with small basal lobes, corymb contracted, fruit hairy. DC. R-odr. iv. 640 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6636; W. ^ A. Prodr. 444; Wight Ic. t. 1044. 



Nbilgherrt Mts. and others in Mtsoeb and Kdrg, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Bootstook short, enveloped by the thick fibres. Stem 8-20 in., nearly glabrous, 

 simple, often subscapnse, nodes more or less hairy. Kadical leaves 2-4 by ^-2 in., 

 narrowed oc almost rounded at the base, entire or sinuate-crenate. — The scapose form 

 has sometimes hairy fruits, and Wight has been unable in his own herbarium to settle 

 what he would call V. Leschenaultii and what V. Brunoniana. 



Vak. Brmiomana, W. & A. Prodr. 443 (sp.) ; cauline leaves small undivided or 

 hardly any, fruit glabrous. Wight Id t. 1043. V. aquatiea, Schldl. in Herb. Hohen- 

 acker, n. 1339 (sp.). — Neilgherry Mt«., frequent. 



13. V. Sed4oinei, C. B. Clarke; glabrous, radical leaves pinnate with 

 numerous oblong leaflets, cauline smaller with several linear leaflets, corymbs 

 contracted, fruit glabrous. V. microphylla, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Sue. xxv. 219, 

 not ofH. B. K. 



Anamallay Mts., alt, 7000 ft., Beddome. 



Eootstook (summit alone seen) horizontal, not woody nor thickened. Stem 4-12 

 in., erect, simple, nodes hairy. Sadical leaves 3 by | in.; leaflets 11-25, i by ^ in., 

 with few irregular obtuse teeth, sublobed or entire ; leaflets of cauline 5-13, 5 by ^ in. 

 Vor,ymh in young fruit 2^ in. long. 



4. VAIiEBIANEXiXiA, Moench. 



Annual herbs, dichotomously branching. Radical leave* rosulate, entire; 

 cauline entire or toothed, rarely pinnatifld. Cymes corymbosely panicled or sub- 

 capitate ; bracts free. Calyx-limh at flower-time small or obsolete ; in fruit 

 variously enlarged, equal or one-sided, sometimes aristate, never plumose. 

 Corolla-tube short, base equal or gibbous, never spurred : lobes 5, spreading, 

 white rose or pale blue. Stamens 3. Ovary 3-celled, 1-ovuled ; style minutely 

 3-lid or subentire. Fruit ovoid or cylindric, straight or curved, the 2 barren cells 

 inflated, as large aa the fertile, or small, or reduced to filiform ridges. — Disieib. 

 Species 47, European, Asiatic, N. American, 



1. V. dentata, Poll. Hist. PI. Pcdat. i. 30, not of DC. ; leaves oblong 

 entire or sparingly toothed, fruit ovoid subcorneal pubescent barren cells reduced 

 to filiform ridges, calyx-limb obliquely truncate toothed much shorter than the 

 fruit. V. Morisonii, DC. Prodr. iv. 627; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 105; Krok 



Valeiianella, 4:2, t. i.^. 6. V. microearpa, lots.; Krok. I. e. 36, t. i._/Sy. 3. 



Kashmir, Thomson. — Disteib. of the genus. 



Stem 3-12 in., oft™ much branched from the base, glabrous or minutely pubes- 

 cent Leaves 1-1 J by J-J in. Flowers white, in small heads ; bracts small, narrow- 

 laTieeolate. Fruit Jj in., the two filiform cells forming a rim round aa ovate-oblong 

 flight depression. 



2. V. Szovitziana, Fisch. 8r Mey. Ind. Sem. iii. 48 ; leaves oblong-linear, 



