VALEBIANACE^. 517 



6. Fedia Mcbnch.' — Flowers irregular ; calyx (?) short, unequally 

 3-5-dentate or lobed, not accrescent. Corolla tube slender, with an 

 anterior sessile glandular appendage; lobes of sublabiate limb 6, 

 imbricate.^ Stamens 2, lateral.' Germen 3-celled ; 2 cells sterile ; 

 style divided at apex into 3 narrow branches, slightly dilated at stig- 

 matose apex. Fruit ^ dry ; sterile cells larger than fertile, turgid and 

 introrsely contiguous. Seed &c. of Valerianella. — Glabrous, 2, 3- 

 chotomous annuals; leaves various, entire or dentate; flowers* in 

 dense 1 -parous terminal cymes; branches of inflorescence oftener 

 thickened and finally hardened ; bracts more or less rigid occasionally 

 rather prominent." {Medit. reg!') 



7. Valeriana T.** — Flowers irregular ;" mouth of pappus ^^ of sac- 

 like receptacle bearing oo (5-20), long-subulate, short and closely 

 iavoluted hairs, accrete after anthesis and finally open. Corolla more 

 or less irregular; tube short or more rarely elongate, generally gibbous 

 or shortly spurred anteriorly; lobes of limb 5, imbricate ; the anterior 

 oftener covered by the laterals;" finally open. Stamens 3;'^ 2 lateral, 

 1 anterior.'^ Germen 1-3-celled ; 2 cells sterile, oftener nervelike or 

 subnil; ovule infertile cell 1, descending; raphe dorsal;^* style ex- 

 sert^d, shortly or very shortly 3-dentate or 3-fid at stigmatose apex. 

 Fruit dry, sometimes spongy-2-tuberculate, and crowned with pappus; 

 sterile cells inconspicuous or 0. Seed in fertile cell descending esal- 

 bummous;^^ radicle of fleshy embryo superior. — Perennial herbs, '" 



_..*. 493 (not Adaks. nor Gj3RTn.).-J. ' Inst. 131, t. 52 (part).-L. Gen. n. 44 (part). 



Am. Mus. X. 311.-DUFR. Val. 54, t. l.-DO. -J. Gen. 195.— PoiR. Bid. viii. 293.— DO. J^ot. 



Not. Yal. 13; Frodr. iv. 630.-Endl. Gen. n. Val. (1832) 14, t. 4; Frodr. iv. 632 fpart).- 



2183.-PAYER, Organoff. 624, t. 132.-H. Bn. Spach, S. & S«ff. x. 307.-Endl. Gen. n. 2186. 



Payer Fam Nat. 240.— B. H. Gen. ii. 155, n. 7. — Tdrp. Bid. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 97.-H. Bn. Payef 



— EicHL. Bluth. i. 275, -E.—Mitrophm-a Neok. Fam. Nat. 241.-Krok, Mon. 7al.~B. H. Gen. 



Mlem. n. 208. "■ 1^4, n. 5. 



' The anterior generally interior to both ' Sometimes dioeuioua or polygamous, 



laterals. " Calyx of authors (according to most oh- 



» The two anterior and the posterior wanting. servers springing after corolla as in ComposiKe). 



4 Eather large. " But'sometimes exterior to one or both, the 



» Pink or reddish. spur being- superposed. „ ^ „ ,,. 



6 A genus in some respects very near to Va- »» Sometimes by abortion 1, 2. PoUen eUip- 

 lerianella, in others to Cmtranthus. »oid or spherical ; with 3 long.tudmal farrows 



7 Spec. 1. F. Cornuoopice DC. Fl. Fr. iv. 240. (H. Mohi, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, m. 315). 

 Eeichb 7c. Fl. Germ. t. 717.-FiscH. et Met. " The posterior and 1 of the anterior wantmg. 

 Sert. Petrop. t. 22.-Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 93.- » Coat simple generally very incomplete. 

 WiLLK. et Laxg. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. ii. 6.-?F '^ Or with membranous albumen. 

 scorpioides Dufr.-F. Cornucopice L. Spec. 44.- '« Very various in form. ^ 



SiBTH. Fl. Gicec. t. Z2.—Bot. Seg.X- 15o- 



