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45. YALERIANACEJE. 
or gibbous. Stam. 3. Fr. 3-celled crowned with the 
erect persistent unequally toothed simple unchanged or 
only enlarged cal. -limb, 2 of the cells barren. — St. dicho- 
tomously branched ; fl. at first solitary in their forks, be- 
coming aggregate in close bracteated cymes or fascicles 
at their top. 
1. Centrantrus DC. 
ttl- c. RUBER (L.). Red Valerian. 
L. ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; spur distinct basal, twice as long 
as ov., shorter than the tube of cor. — DC. iv. 632 ; Koch 371 ; 
Dab. 160. Valeriana rubra a Linn. Sp. 44. V. rubra Desf. i. 
27 ; Brot. i. 47 ; EB. 1. 1531 ; Sm. E. Fl. 142. V. marina lati- 
folia Moris, iii. § 7. 1. 14. f. 15 ; ejusd. PI. Lhnbell. 1. 11. — Herb, 
per. Mad. reg. 1,2, c. Walls and rocks about Funchal chiefly, 
an outcast of gardens. At most seasons. — More or less glau- 
cous smooth 1-2 ft. high thickly bushy and leafy. St. suflru- 
tescent at the base, succulent and fistulose upwards. L. all 
entire more or less stalked, the upper lanceolate. Cymes bra- 
chiate forming close pyramidal terminal thyrses or panicles. 
Fl. more or less deep rose-red, sometimes pale pink or w. 
Style filiform and with the single stamen somewhat exserted. 
The remarkably long slender spur originates from the very 
base of the tube of cor. Lobes of cor. very unequal and often 
arranged bilabiately Expanded pappus large, elegantly fea- 
thery, deciduous. 
2. C. CALCITRAPA (L.). 
Lower 1. lyrate, lowest often simple ovate or rounded, upper 
lyrato-pinnatifid, lobes of upper sharply of lower bluntly toothed 
or crenate ; spur very short from above the base of cor.-tube. — 
DC. iv. 632 (excl. var. /3) ; Buch 195. n. 276 ; WB. ii. 196 ; Bab. 
160 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 53. Valeriana calcitrapa L. Sp. 44 ; Desf. 
i. 28 ; Brot. i. 47 ; Fl. Gr. i. t. 30. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, 3, 
4, c. Docks and banks in ravines up to the highest peaks ; 
Bib. de S ,A Luzia &c., Peaks about the Icehouse, at the En- 
trosa on the N. coast, P co da Cruz, Seixal, &c. March-June. 
— Whole pi. smooth and shining succulent, very variable in 
stature and luxuriance, with a single very erect straight st. 
from 2 in. to 2 ft. high, mostly about 1 ft., stout succulent hol- 
low and sometimes as thick as the little finger, mostly glau- 
cescent, brachiately branched. L. succulent more or less glau- 
cescent, often dark purplish red or violet ; lobes of lower and 
st. — 1 . toothed or crenate, of uppermost often entire. Fl. pale 
greyish lilac or dull w. distichous but unilaterally erect close- 
crowded on the uppermost divisions of the brachiate dicho- 
tomous densely corymbose terminal cymes, each fl. from the 
