516 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



4. Phyllactis Pees.'— Flowers nearly of Valerianella, oftener 

 3-androus. Fruit 3-celled ; sterile cells narrow, nervelike or scarcely 

 perceptible (Euphyllactis ^)j or more rarely subequal to the fertile one, 

 often confluent sometimes opening outwards {Astrephia ^) ; crowned 

 with short or very short calyx sometimes subnil (or 0). Other 

 characters of Valerianella. — Perennial herbs, erect or loosely ramose 

 or climbing, more rarely undershrubs or (Euphyllactis) shrubs;* leaves 

 entire, dentate, pinnatifid or once or twice pinnatisect ; flowers * in 

 compound more or less loosely racemose or contracted and capituliform 

 cymes, axillary or terminal; bracts very various in form, free or 

 connate. (Warm and temp. N. and S. especially And. America.^) 



5. Plectritis DC — Flowers (nearly of Phyllactis or Valerianella) 

 irregular, or 3-androus; calyx very short annular or 0. Corolla 

 tubular at base ; tube long- and narrow- spurred anteriorly at base ; 

 limb scarcely irregular, 6-lobed, imbricate. Germen 3-celled ; -1 cell 

 fertile ; style shortly 3-lobed at apex. Fruit dry ; 2 sterile cells 

 nervelike or dilated to short thick incurved connivent wings, attenuate 

 at margin. Seed &c. of Phyllactis. — Annual herbs ;^ leaves entire, 

 sinuate or dentate ; flowers ' terminal or axillary to upper leaves and 

 in compound ramose contracted spikelike or capituliform cymes. 

 (Galifornia, Chili.^") 



Ti. 92 ; Fl. Or. iii. 94.^IJang. PI. Nov. Sisp. t. Mulinea (P. crassipes), Monoeotyledoneo! (P. n- 



28. — WiLLK. et Lang. Pndr. Fl. Sisp. ii. 7. — gida, iracteaia), sometimes of the small moiiu- 



WooDS, I'r. Linn. Soc. xvii. 421, t. 21. — Ball. tain Saxifragece and Frimulaeeee (P. aretioides), 



Spicil. Maroce. Journ. Linn. Soc. (1878) 491. — or with, short thick cordate leaves highly im- 



Gtb. et GoDE. Fl. de Fr. ii. 58.— Fr. et Say. bricate (P. cordifoUa), &c. 



Fnum. PI. Jap. i. 217.— Walp. Hep. ii. 626, 528, « White or pink. 



944 {Fedia); \i. 79; Ann. ii. 801. « Spec. 30-35. DO. Piodr.iv. 632, 633 {Vale- 



1 Syiiops. i. 39 (1805).— B. H. Gen. ii. 153, riancB sect. 1, 2).— E. et Pav. Fl. Per. t. 66, 68, , 

 n. 4. 69 {Valeriana). — P(epp. et Endl. iVi)». Gen.etSp. 



2 NotWuDD. {Phyllactis of authors). PI. t. 214 {Valeriana).— TIok^s.. et Jaco. Vvy. 



3 Ddpk. Val. (1811) 50 (part).— DC. Not. Val. Pole Sud, t. 16 (FfflfonaMa).— Wedd. Chi. Andin. 

 12 ; Prodr. iv. 629.— Endl. Qen. n. 2182.— B. ii. 28, t. 47.— Walp. Eep. ii. 628 {Astrephia) ; 

 H. Gen. ii. 153, n. 3. — Semesotria Eafin. Ann. Ann. \. 157 {Amblyorrhina). 



Phys. vi. 88. — OligacoeeW. (ex Endl.). — Porte- ' Not. VaUr. 13 ; Prodr. iv. 631. — Endl. Gen. 



fia Hook. Icon. t. 864.— Kaest. Fl. Golomb. ii. n. 2184.— B. H. Gen. ii. 155, n. 8.—? Betckea 



99, t. 151. — Amblyorrhina TuRCz. Mull. Mosc. DO. Not. VaUr. 18; Prodr. iy. 642. 



(1852) ii. 168. » Appearance of Valerianella (of which per- 



* Very various in hahit (char, not gen.) : haps better a sect., habit peculiar ?). 



slender climbing plants, not unlike Fumaria or ' Pink. 



Cardiospermum, &c. (P. chaerophylloides), or with '» Spec. 3. Lindl. Bot. Peg. t. 1094 {Valeria- 



habit and leaves of Fafori««e//o (P. JIfa«(?o««a«a), nellii). — Walp. Eep. ii. 528, 631 {Betckea). 



