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-if? 3. O. parvifolia, -4r?i. in Hook Co?np, BoL Mag. ii. 308 ; Stems gla-: 

 brous or with scattered small hairs, flowers few pedicelled with lanceolate bracts 

 irk in. but not with large floral leaves, fruit \ in. broad ovoid obscurely ribbed, 

 Naud. in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 58 ; Triana in Tram. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 53. 0, 

 Leschenaultiana, Thwaites Enum. p. \0A, partly. 0. zeylanica, Bot. Reg. t. 665; 



Ceylon, Walker No. 332. 

 . Small, woody, procumbent, with the habit of Thyme. Leaves J-^ in., ovate-sub- 

 aeate, nearly sessile, shortly setose on both surfaces, drying black. Calyx-tuhe and 

 teeth -with stalked stellate rufous hairs; teeth suberect, subpersistent. — Mr. Thwaites 

 treats this also as a var. of 0, cupularis, and it has all the appearance of being an 

 alpine form of that plant. 



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^ 4. O. Rbeedii, Thwaites Enum. ^p, 104; stiffly shrubby, scabrous, leaves 

 ngid 3-nerved harshly scabrous on both surfaces or glabrous above, flowers 1-4 



ibe with adpressed simple hairs, teeth long-lanceolate with 



erect simple hairs. 



y Ceylon; Wight, Walker, Thwaites. 



Small, woody, much branched. Leaves 1 in., elliptic or oblong, narrowed at both 

 ^as; petiole \ in. Petals f in., pale purple. Fruit |-| in. broad, ovoid, truncate.— 

 •^. Thwaites states the flowers 4-fid, as they are in all the Kew examples ; Triana 

 puts the species in his section Asterostoma with 5-fid flowers -without explanation. 

 Ane plant differs from Asterostoma in the smaller flowers and (what is of more 

 importance) in the anthers which are truncate at top and altogether those of section 

 ^rnblyanthera. ' ' 



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 ^te, not produced or produced into a short neck in the fruit. Anthers beaked. 



' 6. O. chlnensis, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Lnd. ii.224; leaves broadly oblong or 



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Q calyx-tube with 

 Lour.FL Cochinch^ 



™ear suddenly narrowed at the base, flowers capitate, fruitin 



^y (^^ none) adpressed pectinate scales soon smooth shining. 1 



f^ ; na Prodr. iii. 141 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4026 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 



^. 0. angustifolia, Dmi Prodr. 221 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 142 ; JTall. Cat. 4067 ; PL 



^«. Rar. t. 251 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. $er. 3. xiv. 69, 0, japonica, Naud. 



^c 70. o. glabrata, Wall. Cat. 4071. 0. myrtifolia, Blume Mus. Bot I 61 



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HnuxAYA Terai from Kumaon to Bhotan, up to 4000 ft. alt. Abundant in 

 inr^ ^^^ ^^"^ Bengal including Assam and Khasia and thence to Singapore. Also 

 aL XT^*^^ Naqpore, alt 2000-4000 ft. —DisTBin. Through China and Malaya to Japan 

 ^ii<l North Australia. 



i^ems 2 ft., branches descending, tetragonous, with adpressed hairs. Leaves com- 

 tio Ki ^ ^°'' ^^^o'w^-oblong, sometimes 6 in., long-linear, in the Parasnath variety ellip- 

 j^oblong from a subcordate base, acute, 3-5-nerved, hairy on both surfaces ; petiole 

 ^ ^nan ^ in. Bracts ovate, on the back glabrous or with a few scattered hairs, 

 att!!^-^^ • lanceolate, glabrous, not keeled on the back, ciliate on the margin ; hairs 

 half fT '^'^^ ^^^ spreading stellate. Petals ^ in., maUve. Anthers with a beak about 

 (or u ^^^ length. Bristles on the apex of the ovary about 16. Fruit J in. wide 

 sotoPf- ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Parasnath variety), ovoid, with a short neck, often glabrous, 

 ^etunes with few or several bristles, calyx-limb never persistent; in the Pegu ex- 

 reiplfi 1® ^^^^ ^« ^^<^^ prolonged widened at the top.— The figure Bot. Mag. t. 4026 

 is d^ ^ Bentham and Triana, admitted by Naudm, is the true plant : the anther 

 ^^^n too long-beaked for 0. octandra to which Triana refers it, and the accom- 

 *^JJng text states the anthers to be "longish beaked"; also the plant is stated to 



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