64. VALERIANE*. 103 



DiStBiB. Japan aiid CMna. , 



Galium rotundifolium Linn. ; DC. Prodr. IV. p. 599 ; Hook f. Fl, 

 Brit. Ind. III. p. 204 ; Hayata Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 148. 



Hab. Randaizan ; Mt. Morrison,. Mt. Arizan. ' 



DiSTBiB. Europe, India, North Africa, Western Asia. 



Obseev. Perennial, procumbent. Stem angular in section, hispidu- 

 lous (hairs retrorse.), internodes 3 cm. long. Leaves 4-verticillate, sessile, ob- 

 long or ovate, 13 mm. long, 6 mm.- broad, shortly acute at the apex, suddenly- 

 attenuate at the base, tri-nerved, margin nearly entire and ciliate, hairy on 

 the nerves of both surfaces, (hairs longer J mm. long, divaricate and retrorse), 

 face hairy hairs shorter and fewer. Cymes axiUary, paniculate, ternate^ 

 branches divaricate. Flowers 5-verticillate at the apex of the branches of 

 cymes, pedicels about 1 mm. long. Calyx-tube glabrous, about ^ mm. in dia- 

 meter, densely covered with falcate hairs. Corolla rotate, 4-lobed, 1| mm. 

 in diameter, lobes ovate, ^ mm. long, obtuse at the apex. Stamens 4, 

 style J mm. long, deeply 2-fid, stigma capitellate. Fruits didymous broadly 

 obcordate, 1 mm. long. If mm. broad, densely covered with straight divari- 

 cate falcate hairs. 



64. Valerianese. 



Conspectus of tlie Formosan Genera. 



Corolla shortly 5-lobed, stamens 4 perfect, bracts njirrowed, free, brac- 

 teoles large adpressed to fruits, appendiculate, coUora white or 

 yellow Patrinia. 1 



Corolla 4-5-f5d, nearly equal. Stamens 4, perfect, bracteoles 4, flowers light 

 pink Triplostegia. 2 



1. Patrinia Juss. 



Key to tlve Formosan Species. 



Leaves ovate dentate villose, flowers white P vUlose. 



Leaves pinnatifid glabrous, flowers yellow P. scaUosce/dia. 



