404 
45. YALERIANACEiE. 
in Mad., rarely minutely velvety-puberulous, pale straw-colour, 
, in. in transverse diam., often rather broader than long, gib- 
bous, compressed, the blunt narrow edge or back longitudi- 
nally faintly grooved, the broad flattened or slightly hollow 
sides with two faint approximate medial ribs separated by a 
narrow groove, and one much stronger than the other; the 
whole fr. more or less strongly ribbed or wrinkled circularly. 
Cut across, the fertile cell with its enormously gibbous spongy 
back is found lying across from side to side and occupying 
more than half the fr. ; the 2 barren cells lying parallel at 
right angles to it and with the wall between them imperfect or 
more or less obliterated. Teeth of crown very short, thickened, 
gr. at the tips even in the ripe fr., the larger one belonging to 
the fertile cell, the 2-4 (or mostly 2 only tolerably distinct) 
smaller teeth being the tips of the outer ribs or nerves of the 
2 barren cells. Not used in Mad. for anything but fodder. 
§ 2. Siphonocgelje Willem. Fr. with two distinct or sepa- 
rate and non-contiguous barren cells convergent at the base 
and smaller than the fertile cell which is not thickened at 
the back. Dissepiment of barren cells complete. 
2. V. Moris oni DC. 
St. widely divaricate or fork-branched upwards , branches of 
corymb spreading, the ultimate divisions spinuloso-scabrous fine 
and slender ; upper 1. subpinnatifidly 2-3-toothed at the base, 
the rest entire ; cymes small not many-fld. or congested , forming 
a widely forked lax corymb ; br. erect linear finely serndato- 
ciliate scarcely longer than the fr. ; fr. smooth or hirsute small 
ovate-acuminate or conico-pyramidal compressed, the back convex 
with a fine filiform midrib and 2 stronger side-ribs, the front 
with two siphon-like strong ribs (barren cells) inclosing an 
oblong or lanceolate-oblong slightly convex nucleus-like depres- 
sion divided into two equal parts by a filiform keel or midrib : 
crown or cal. -limb prominent narrow half the length of fr. very 
obliquely truncate 5-0 -toothed, the middle dorsal tooth pro- 
duced acuminate . — V. Morisonii DC. iv. 027; Soyer-Will. in 
Gren. et Godr. FI. Fr. ii. 03. V. dentata u (Poll. Palat. i. 
p. 30)” ; Koch 372 (excl. svn. Valeriana Locusta 8. dentata L.) 
not DC.; Coss. et Germ. FI. Par. ii. 309; Dab. 101. — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 2. Apr.-July. — Varr. : — 
a. leiocarpa ; fr. smooth or naked ; br. mostly indistinctly ser- 
rulate or ciliute, sometimes entire. — WD. ii. 194 (not a DC.). 
V. Morisonii (i. leiocarpa DC. 1. c. V. dentata a. leiocarpa Koch 
1. c. Valeriana dentata ED. t. 1370; Ait. Iiort. Kew. (ed. 2) 
i. 70. Fcdia dentata Hook. FI. Scot. i. 15; Sm. E. FI. i. 45. 
F. dentata a Hook. Drit. FI. (ed. 5) i. 1(54. — S. Vicente in corn- 
fields aloug the road halfway up to the Encumeada (first 
