aaa) Soa : he aM “dh 
, Spec. Cuar, , Perennial: stems 4-sided : branches flaccid ; young 
oneg. with much soft recurved hair: leaves in sixes, linear-oblong, 
somewhat cuneate at the base with a sharp mucronate puint, reflex- 
ed, upper side scabrous; the recurved marging and midrib under- 
pont with stiff recurved hairs: ‘peduncles axillary, divaricately 
ranched, many-flowered, arranged on a somewhat leafy panicle : 
segments of the corolla lanceolate with a hair-like point: fruit gla- 
brous, minutely granulated: flowers white becoming yellow in 
drying. , 
Dindigul hills. 
(2) G, REQUIENIANUM. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 443.—Wight’s Icon. 't. 1049.— 
_ Spicil. I. t. 102. j 
4, SPEG. CHAR. Perennial : stems diffuse, ascending and with the 
_ branches 4-angled, clothed with much soft.spreading hair: leaves 
4§n fours, roundish-obovate, mucronate, 3-nerved : upper side sprin~ 
kled with hairs, underneath more hairy: peduncles axillary or'ter- 
Aminal, few-flawered, trichotomous, hairy: segments of the ‘corolla 
“ roundish-ovate, slightly hairy outside : ‘fruit roundish, hispid’ with 
hooked bristles. 
_ Neilgherries. _ Dindigul hills. 
ORDER LXXXIII. VALERIANACEZ. 
te Calyx with a limb of various kinds either membranous’ or 
- yesembling a pappus : corolla tubular, usually 5-lobed, inserted 
into the top of the ovary: tube equal or gibbous or spurred at 
the base: stamens 1-5, inserted into the tube of ‘the corolla and 
alternate with its lobes: anthers ovate, 2-celled: ovary 1-3- 
celled; ovule solitary, pendulous: style filiform: stigmas 1-3, 
distinct or combined: fruit dry, indehiscent,” crowned with the 
limb, of the calyx, I-celled; seed solitary: albumen hone: 
embryo straight. 
“GENUS I. VALEREANA. 
Triandria Monogynia, Sex: Syst: 
Deriy. Said te he named after Valerian, who first used it in 
medicine. 
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