PHANEROGAMS— PROFESSOR BAYLEY BALFOUR. 119 



S. hispida, Linn. Sp. 148 ; DC. Prod. iv. 555 ; Hook. fil. Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 iii. 200. 



Socotra. At Tamarida. B.C.S. n. 455. Schweinf. n. 299. 



Distrib. Throughout India and the Eastern Archipelago. A variable 

 plant on Socotra. 



8. VAILLANTIA. 



Vaillantia, DC. Flor. Franc, iv. 266, and Prod. iv. 613 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 148. 

 A small genus of the Mediterranean region and western Asia. 



V. hispida, Linn. Sp. 1490; DC. Prod. iv. 614; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iii. 

 82 ; Hiern in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. iii. 246 ; Sibth. Flor. Grsec. t. 138. 



Socotra. On the hill slopes. B.C.S. n. 452. 



Distrib. A plant of the Mediterranean region, and reaching from the 

 Canary Islands to south Persia. 



9. GALIUM. 



Galium, Linn. Gen. n. 125 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 149. 



A very large genus, chiefly of temperate climates, but spread all over the 

 globe. 



G. Aparine, Linn. Sp. 157 ; DC. Prod. iv. 608 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iii. 

 68 ; Hiern in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. iii. 245; Hook. fil. Flor. Brit. Ind. iii. 205. 



Socotra. On the higher parts of Haghier. B.C.S. n. 480. Schweinf. n. 

 641. 



Distrib. A widely spread old world species. 



The form of this species with small hispid fruit is that which occurs on 

 Socotra. 



Order XXXV. VALERIANE.E. 



A large order, chiefly distributed in the temperate regions of the northern 

 hemisphere of both old and new worlds, very few occurring in the tropics. 



VALERIANELLA. 



Valerianella, Monch. Meth. Bot. 493 pro parte : Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 156. 



A genus of about twenty species of herbs, several of them social weeds, 

 distributed through Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, and north 

 America. 



V. afflnis, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xi. (1882), 837. 

 Pusilla sparsim bipartim ramosa ; foliis inferioribus oblongo-ellipticis v. oblanceolatis obtusis 

 obscure dentatis, superioribus ssepe linearibus remote acutecpue dentatis v. interdum 

 trifidis ; cymis paucifloris, bracteis scarioso-margiuatis ; calyce rotato-campanulato herbaceo 



