Odorographia : a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry : intended to serve growers, manufacturers and consumers . ndianNard or Mountain I^ard of Dioscorides (i., cap. vi.) has beenproved beyond all doubt to be the Nardostachys Jatamansi ofDe Candolle, and is botanically described and figured by him inhis Seventh Memoir, Sur la famille des Yalerian^es, t. 1; andProdomus, iv., p. 624 ; also Chatin, Etude sur les Valerian^es (Paris, 1872), p. 69, t. 2. K grandiflora, , Mem., 1. c. p. 8, t. 2,Prodr., iv., p. 624 ; Wall. PL, As. Ear., iii., p. 40. PcdriniaJatam
Odorographia : a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry : intended to serve growers, manufacturers and consumers . ndianNard or Mountain I^ard of Dioscorides (i., cap. vi.) has beenproved beyond all doubt to be the Nardostachys Jatamansi ofDe Candolle, and is botanically described and figured by him inhis Seventh Memoir, Sur la famille des Yalerian^es, t. 1; andProdomus, iv., p. 624 ; also Chatin, Etude sur les Valerian^es (Paris, 1872), p. 69, t. 2. K grandiflora, , Mem., 1. c. p. 8, t. 2,Prodr., iv., p. 624 ; Wall. PL, As. Ear., iii., p. 40. PcdriniaJatamansi, Don Prodr., p. 159, and in Lambert, Descriptionof the genus Cinchona, p. 177, with fig. Valeriana Jatamansi,Wall. Cat., 431 (not of Jones or Eoxburgh, in As. Ees., ii., p. 405and iv., p. 433, which represent V. Wallichii, , a plant whichis considered identical with V. Hardwickii, Wallich); also Fediagrandiflora, Wall. Cat., 1187. 266 ODOKOGEAPHIA. The general character of the genus Nardostachys, , isdescribed in Hookers Flora of British India, iii., p. 210, in the following terms :- Erect perennial herbs. Leaves entire, radical. Nardostachys Jatamansi, (Reduced from De CandoUes Memoir here quoted).Plate i. in same. elongate spathulate; cauline few. Flowers capitate, heads incymes ; bractes oblong, free or nearly so. Calyx-limb, o-lobed, infruit enlaro-ed, membranous, veined. Corolla tubular-campanulate. SPIKEXAED AXD YALERIAX. 26 base sub-equal; lobes, 5, spreading. Stamens, 4. Ovary 3-celled,one ovuled ; style linear, stigma capitate. Fruit obovate, com-pressed, 3-celled, 1-seeded, the 2 barren cells smaller than thefertile. Seed obovate, compressed. The distinctive character of the species K jatamansi, isdetailed by the same authority, as follows:— Eoot stock, woody,long, stout, covered with fibres from the petioles of witheredleaves. Stem, 4 to 24 inches, more or less pubescent upwards.
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