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style slender, undivided, stigma terminal. Fruit small, 1-celled, 
1 -seeded, crowned with the pappus-like calyx-limb. 
Stems 6-18 in. Leaves undivided. Corymb terminal . 1. V. Wallichii. 
Stems 1-5 ft. Leaves pinnate. Corymbs axillary . . 2. V. Hardwickii. 
1. Valeriana Wallichii, DC. ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 213. Pubes- 
cent ; rootstock thick, horizontal ; stems 6-18 in., usually tufted. 
Radical leaves persistent, stalked, cordate-ovate, 1-3 x 1-2J in., 
toothed or sinuate, acute. Stem-leaves shortly stalked, smaller. 
Flowers white or tinged with pink, in a terminal corymb 1-3 in. 
across, often 1 -sexual, the male and female on different plants. 
Simla, Mushobra ; March-May. — Temperate Himalaya, 7000-10,000 ft. — 
Afghanistan. 
V. pyrolaefolia, Decaisne, FI. Br. Ind. iii. 212, is closely allied to the above, 
differing only in its broadly ovate or orbicular, obtuse radical leaves and sessile 
stem -leaves. It occurs on the Chor and perhaps on Huttoo. 
Fig. 73. Valeriana Hardwickii. 
2. Valeriana Hardwickii, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 213. Pubes- 
cent ; rootstock descending. Radical leaves few, soon disappear- 
ing, stalked, ovate, 2-4 X 1^-3 in. Stem-leaves pinnate, 3-6 in., 
lower ones stalked, crowded, upper sessile ; leaflets 3-7, lanceolate, 
