VALERIANACEJE. 515 



Germen 3-celled ; 2 cells sterile ;' style eubentire at apex. Fruit dry, 

 sometimes increased laterally by an acute 2-nerved and reticulate 

 adpressed bract ; sterile cells large and subequal to or longer than the 

 fertile one,- — Perennial herbs, glabrous of villosulose ; leaves opposite, 

 once or twice pinnatifid or pinnatisect ; the lower sometimes entire 

 or subentire ; flowers ^ in terminal cymiferous racemes, bracteate and 

 bracteolate.' {Gent. temp, and east. Asia.*) 



. 3. Valerianella Moench.^ — Flowers more or less irregular; recep- 

 tacle saclike various. Calyx (?) short entire, sinuate or dentate, 

 Bometimes oblique or 0, generally variously increased after anthesis, 

 open or erect, sometimes globosely inflated, regular^ or irregular, 

 2-6-dentate or 3-lobate-homed, sometimes lobed in rigid or rather 

 rigid curved, recurved or hooked awns, more rarely unchanged. Corolla 

 more or less irregular, contracted or attenuate at base ; tube short or 

 elongate, divided or oftener obtusely gibbous ;^ lobes of limb 5, imbri- 

 cate, finally open. Stamens 3, 1 anterior, 2 lateral. Germen 3-celled ; 

 2 cells sterile ; style shortly or very shortly 3-lobed at apex. Fruit 

 dry, sometimes spongy, oftener crowned with calyx; sterile cells 

 narrow, smaller than fertile or nervelike, contiguous or remote, some- 

 times equal or larger, rarely only longitudinally or introrsely contiguous 

 (Dufi-esnia^). Other characters of Patrinia. — Annual herbs, oftener 

 small ; branches 2-chotomous ; leaves inferior rosulate entire ; the 

 upper oftener smaller or partly bractlike, entire, dentate, crenate, 

 incised or pinnatifid; flowers^ in compound ramose corymbiform cymes, 

 often 2, 3-chotomous, sometimes contracted and capituhform ; bracts 

 various free." (Medit. Europe, Asia and Africa, N. America. ^^) 



' Ovule small effete or 0. — H. Bn. Tat/er Fam. Nat. 240.— B. H. Gen. ii. 



■ ^ Yellow or white. 156, n. d.—JPolt/premum Auans. Fam. des PI. ii. 



'Sect.3: \, Eupatrinia ; 2,^<W«i»(LEDEB.); 152 (not L.).—0*««oi;a)-i)B Neck. i;V««. i/ 123. 



3, Cmtronisia (Maxim. Bull. Acad. Fitersb. xii. ' In V. eoronata equally dentate, 



67 ; M61. Biol.Mu 267). " Not spurred. 



* Spec. 2, 3. G.EEIN. Fruct. t. 86, fig. 3 {Fedia). " DC. Not.Val. 8, "t. 3, fig. 1 (whence fig. 401); 



— Thiinb. Fl. Jap. t. 6 {Valeriana).— BmcBB. Frodr. iv. 624.— Endl. Gen. n. 2180. 



Icon. Mxot. t. 20, 83, 94.— Sweet, Bf. Fl. Gard. ^ Small or very small, white, pink, reddish or 



t. 154.— Bge. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vi. 70.— Fii. bluish. 



et Sat. Frnrn. PI. Jap. i. 216.— Bat. Mug. t. '» Sect. 2 (ex DC. B. H. and others) : 1, Si- 



714, 2325 {JakrianaY—'^MS. Rep. ii. 626; ^Ao»<!«a(ToiiR.et Ge.); % Braehydphoii ; these 



Ann.i. 986. divided into 4 series {Locustce, Corwgerai, Psilu- 



' Meth. 493 (part). — Betcke, Anim. Yaler. caelie, Platycmlai). 



(Kost. 1826).— DC. JVo*. Valir. (1882) 10, t. 3, » Spec, ahout 46. Eeichb. Jro«.£c/i;.t. 60-70, 



fig. 2-10; Prodr. iv. 625.— Dura. Yaler. t. 23. 113-116 {Fedia); Ic. Fl. Germ. t. r08-716.— 



—Endl. Gen. u. 2181.— KltoK, If ono^J-. Valer. Sibth. Fl. Graic.t. 34 (ral!:riana).—Toi<n. Fl. 



K. Sw. Vet. Acad. Handl. v. (1864) n. 1, 4 tab. N.-Tork. t. 46.— Boiss. Uiagu. Or. ser. 2, 120; 



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