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. [With regard to the following generally accepted sections of OshecUa founded pri- 

 marily on the 4-fid or 5-fid flowers it should be premised that several Osbeckias which 

 hay© the flowers normally 4-fid carry also a few 5-fid flowers on the same plant; aM 

 that sometimes a strong plant may produce all or nearly all the flowers 5-fid. This 

 occurs eminently in 0^ crinita and in 0. cupiclaris,^ 





, Sect. I. Axnblyanthera 



beaked. Hey^bs or small shrubs. 



irmally 



Anthers not 



1. 



truncata. Don im, : TF. 



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Nat, Ser. 3. xiv. 56, 



^ A. P)'odr. 322 ; hairs on the stem patentj 

 with two or four leaves close under the head, bristles on 

 16-20, fruit ^ in. broad 8-ribbed ovoid-oblong. WtgM 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 53. O. muralis, Naud. in Ann, 



Steud, in ITet^b. Hohenack 



8f Gibs 







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,c? 



Throughout the Deccan Peninsuia, alt. 0-4000 ft. ; extending plentifully to Chota 

 Nagpore. East Bengal, Mudhopoor; (7. B. Clarke, a\ '-rt 



Sterns 4-16 in., annual. 4-anffled. Leaves 1 in., elliptic, subacute, 3-nerved, Hairy 



Bracts ovate or oblong, glabrous on 

 stellate hairs : teeth erect, subper; 



surfaces 



12 



m. 



stalked stellate hairs ; 

 sistent. Petals less than \ in., purple. Capsule occasionally 5-celled. ' , 



Tab. Kurzii ; plant scarcely 2 in. -with very small leaves and flow^s, capsiu^ 

 ovoid ribs altogether 9bscure. — Parasnath Summit, Behar, alt. 4200 ft. ; Kurz- i 



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often 



O. oupularis, Bon 7m. ; W, 



with two or four leaves close und 



many 



^ A. Prodr. 323 ; flowers subcapi^te 



ider the head sometimes more lax, bnsu^ 



lerons, fruit rarely less than i m. l^oaa 



Nmid. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 61 ; lr%ai>^ 



in Trans,^ Lmn. Soc. xxviii. 55. O. brachystemon, Naud 



t 1 ; Triand I. c. 63: O. trimcata, Am. in 



Naud. I. c. 57. 0. confertiflora, Naud. L c. 6 



t. 996; Thivaites Enum. 104 partly \ not of DC. O. Wi 



Wall. Cat. 4074 {not in Wall. Cat. 4060). 



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Hooh. Comp. Bot. i*^«^i7- "' " 

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Deccan Peninsula and of Cbti^n 



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Mysore 



Bababoodun Hills ; Law. JS'ilgbiri^ ; ffohenacker No. 963 (najned 0. 1 

 (Mehgui ? Herb. Griffith). Ceylon ; Gardner. ^^ 



Annual and biennial, drying yellow. Stems 8-20 in., tetragonous, g!*^^^^i| /c, 

 wards, with simple ascending often closely-adpressed hairs. Leaves 1-2 in-* ^ -^^^ 

 subacute, 3- (or sub- 5-) nerv-ed, hairy on both surfaces; petiole |-i in. %^^^ \^\^) 

 or oblong, glabrous on their backs. Calyx-tube and teeth with stalked stellate n 



Var. erythrocephala, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 58. 



teeth patent subpersistent. Petals f-f in., dark-purple or nearly white. ^^^\^ts 



I. i04.— Ceylon, alt. 6000 ft.; Thwaitesli^o. 1576 



Turns black in drvinry- sffim "hAln-w txAfh rloflpYorl hairs i »*- iprtllS 



Thwaites 

 Walker. 



iHaua. m Ann. Sc. JNat. ser. 3. xiv. 68. '-'• ^ ° QrVW«^» 

 Ceylon, alt. 6000 ft. ; Thwaites No. 1576 and 284, J 



stellate 



about the inflorescence a rufous-brown; fruit sometimes large sonle^w-^ ^A-fid." 

 and slightly produced at the vertex; flowers in this variety seem ^^"^^^l- l has 

 Triana distinguishes (under the name 0. oupularis) Wight's No. ^^^^.Y L take3 

 sometimes 5-fid flowers, the stamens 8, 9 or 10, from Wight's No. 1U8 whicn n ^ ^^ 

 as 0. brachystevion : but the two seem identical. Mr. Thwaites ma^^^ ^ ^^0 

 species here. Triana arranges the main sections of Osbeckia according . 



lowers are 4-fid or 5-fid ; he thus places 0. cupulans in the 5-fid section ^^ J.^^^^\ 

 thstance from 0. brachystemon ; then he says (under the head of 0. Lescfiena^ ^^^^^ 

 that 0. oupularis has 4-fid flowers. 0. Leschenaultiana is the name &?^!f ^^^^nt bj 

 m herbaria for this variable species, but Triana is right in saying that i>V; °' 



O, Leschenaultiana a very different plant. 



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