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KATUBAL BISTORT OF PLANTS. 



sometimes subshrubby, erect or more rarely climbing, sometimes 

 sbrubs, glabrous, pubescent or villose (with foetid odour) ; leaves 

 opposite, entire,' dentate, pinnatifid or 1- 2- or 3-pinnatisect; flowers^ 

 in cymes oftener terminal, compound or decompound racemose, some- 

 times contracted and spikelike or capituliform ; bracts free or rarely 

 connate.' (Gold and temp. reg. of north, liemisph., N., And. and extra- 

 trop. S. America.*) 



8. Centranthus DC — Flowers of Plectritis (or Valeriana)', corolla 

 tube long- and narrow-spurred anteriorly to middle or below, divided 

 internally by a vertical septum into 2 unequal cellules;^ limb imbricate. 

 Stamen 1,' lateral, exserted. Germen inferior; ovule in fertile cell 1, 

 descending. Fruit nearly of Valeriana, 5-15, plumose-ciliate crowned 

 with strips of pappus,^ sometimes 1 -nerved, sometimes rather concave, 

 bearing nervelike sterile cells ; exalbuminous seed &c. of Valeriana. — 

 Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes shrubby at base ; leaves entire, 

 or lower and upper dentate or pinnatisect ; inflorescences ^ compound 

 cymose, often corymbiform (of Valeriana) . {Medit. reg.^°) 



' Either all or tlie lower ; the others more or 

 less divided in the same plant. 



" White or pink. 



^ E. g. in V. saliunca All. (sect. Fhuopsis 

 Eeiche. Ic. pi. Germ. xii. 28 (not Griseb.). 



* Spec, ahout ]20. E. et Pat. Fl. Per.t. 65 a, 

 b, 66, 67, 68 a, 69 «, 70.— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et 

 Sp. t. 273-276.— PcEPP. et Ends. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 t. 215-219.- C. Gat, Fl. Chil. iii. 213.— Wall. 

 H. As. Sar. t. 263.— Wight, III. t. 129 ; Icon. 

 t. 1043-1046.- Done. Jacq. Toy. Bot. t. 93.— 

 Kl. Waldem. Seis. Bot. t.SS.^CoLL. Mem. Acad. 

 Bonon. xxxviii. t. 21. — Tokk. Fl.N.-York, t. 45. 

 — Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. t. 101. — A. Gray, Proc. 

 Jmer. Aoad.y. 322.— Chapm. Fl. S. Tin. St. 183. 

 —Cav. /coK. t. 456.— Sm. Ic.Ined. t. 52.— Wedd. 

 Chlor. Aiidin. ii. 17, t. 48, 49. — Philip. Linnaa, 

 xxviii. 697 ; xxx. 191. — Ttjrcz. Bull. Mose. 

 (1852) ii. 171.— Desp. Ann. Mus. xi. t. 28.— 

 Hart, and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 40. — Jadb. et Sp. 

 III. PI. Or. t. 9.— Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, 117; 

 Fl. Or. iii. 85.— Griseb. Cat. Fl. Cub. 143.— 

 Jacq. Fl. Augtr. t. 219, 267-269.— Reiohb. Ic. 

 Fl. Germ. t. 719-728 ; Icon. Bot. t. 59.-TliEDEB. 



Icon. PI. Moss. t. 19, 346, 350.— Fr. et Sav. En. 

 PI. Jap. i. 217.— SiBTH. Fl. ffriEC. t. 33.— Will. 

 et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. ii. 1. — Gr. et Godr. 

 Fl.de Fr. ii. 54; Bot. Ma^. t. 1825.— W alp. 

 Sep. ii. 528, 944 ; vi. 80 ; Axn. i. 381, 986 ; ii. 

 801 ; V. 138 (part). 



» Fl. Fr. iv. 238 ; Not. Yal. 14; Pre*, iv. 238. 

 — Endl. Gen. n. 2185.— Pater, Organog. 624, t. 

 133.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 242.— B. H. Gen. 

 155, n. 6. — Kentranthus Neck. Elem. n. 207. 



^ One anterior spurred ; the other postero- 

 lateral enclosing the style and stamen. 



' " Sometimes 2." 



' Concerning which see Vacch. Phys. PI. ii. 

 717. 



' Flowers red, pink or white. 



" Spec. 5, 6. Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 29-31 (Vale- 

 riana). — Cav. Icon. t. 363 {Valeriana). — Bchb. 

 Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 717, 718.— Mor. Fl. Sard. t. 78 

 (2). — Boiss. Voy. Esp. t. 85 A; Diagn. Or. ser. 

 2, ii. 119 ; Fl. Or. iii. 91. — Ball, Joum. Linn. 

 Soc. xvi. 490. — WiLLK. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. 

 ii. 4. — Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 62. — Walp 

 Sep. vi. 80 ; Ann. i. 381 ; ii. 801. 



