1475 
. OSBÉCKIA* nepalénsis; var. albiflóra. 
White-flowered Nipal Osbeckia. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MELASTOMACEZ Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 61.) 
OSBECKIA.—Supra, vol. 7. fol. 542. 
Sect. OSBECKIARIA, 
Calyces 4-5-fidi, setis à basi palmatis per totum tubum ornati; ap- 
pendices plumose aut seepiüs pectinate ; lobi demüm cum appendicibus 
decidui, ore calycis truncato. — Species omnes Asiaticee, et forsan nonnullee 
Africanee hic adj ungendee.— De Cand. prodr. 3. 141. 
O. nepalensis; herbacea? (suffruticosa), ramis subtetragonis setis brevibus 
adpressis asperis, foliis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis brevé et appressé 
pilosis 5-nerviis, floribus fasciculatis bracteatis, calycis squamulis latis 
palmato-ciliatis, lobis deciduis longitudine tubi obovati.—De Cand. l. c. 
O. nepalensis. Hooker exot. fl. t. 31. (floribus purpureis.) 
O. speciosa. Don prodr. fl. nepal. p. 222. 
A very pretty Greenhouse plant, native of Nipal, whence 
seeds have been at various times sent to England by 
Dr. Wallich. A purple-flowered variety was originally 
raised in the Gardens of Glasgow and Edinburgh; and 
from a specimen that flowered in the latter collection, in 
June 1822, Dr. Hooker's figure, in the Exotic Flora, was 
drawn. 
That which is now published with white flowers was 
* « Received its name from Linneus, in honour of his disciple Peter 
Osbeck, a Swedish clergyman, who performed a voyage to China, as chaplain 
to a Swedish East Indiaman, and published an account of his voyage, par- 
ticularly of his observations in Natural History, which has been translated 
into German and English. — He contributed several papers on fishes, in- 
sects, and various economical plants, to the Stockholm Transactions."— 
Smith. 
