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have been imported from China where 0. cUnmsis is common, 0, octandra unknown. 

 Triana appears to have rejected the figure because it shows 5 petals ; the accompany- 

 ing text states the ca]yx to be 4-5-fid. Now there are several instances of normally 

 4-fid Osbeckias having some or many 6-fid flowers ; but there is no recorded instance 

 of a normally 5-fid Osbeckia producing 4-fid flowers. The Bot, Beg. t. 642 is an mt 

 ferior figure, but from similar reasoning is probably 0. chinensis also. 



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6. O. capitata, Smth. in Wall Cat. 4072 ', leaves ovate acute from a 

 Ih-oad or cordate base subsessile, flowers capitate, calyx-se^ents lanceolate 

 rounded on the back ciliate. Naud, in Ann. Sc, Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 68 ; TriaM^ 

 Tram. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 53. 0. glauca, Naud. I c. Osbeckioidea, Ginf. ic. 639. 



East Bhotan, Tassangsee, alt. 4500 ft. ; ex Griffith Jotcrn. Khasia Mrs., alt 



4000-5000 ft. ; plentiful. ' • vi- 



A perennial herb 8-20 in., branched from the base; branches tetragonous, witn 

 adpressed bristles. Leaves 1 in., hairy on both surfaces, 3-9-nerved, nerves deeply 

 sunk on the upper surface in the dried specimens. Bracts ovate, acute, hairy on tn 

 back. Calyx-tube sometimes densely covered with clustered bristles, often with pec- 

 tinate bristle-bearing scales at the apex only, sometimes even when young altogetne 

 glabrous. Petals J in., mauve. Anthers with a beak more than half their own 

 length. Bristles on the apex of the ovary about 16. Fruit ovoid, } in. wide, otien 

 glabrous, sometimes more or less bristle-bearing ; neck short, calyx-limb never pe 

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7. O. zeylanica, Willd. Sp, PL ii. 300; leaves oblong or elliptic na^ 

 rowed at both ends, petiole 0-J in,, flowers capitate; calvx-tube with ^preaaiDg 

 stellately hairy scales persistent on the fruit. Pluk. t. 173, f. 4; Roxh.Fl.l^^' 

 ii. 223 ; WalL Cat. 4*9 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 322 ; Miq. Fh Lnd. Bat. i. pt- ^ 

 519 ; Thwaites Enu7n. p. 104 f Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 53. 0. sen- 

 alls, NaiLd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 67. O. debilis, Naud. I c. 65. 



Tropical Deccait Pend^stjia, Wiffhl No. 1143; Bababoodun Hills, Malabar; 

 Law. Ceylok ; Thwaites. , ; .^^ 



Erect, annual, 3-15 in. ; branches ascending, tetragonous, with adpressed bns 

 or nearly glabrous. Leaves J_1J in., hairy on both surfaces. ^^^^^^ ^®J{ ^f Hate 

 Calyx-segments keeled on their backs, often setose, ciliate on the margin, with steu 

 prominently-spreading bristles at their tips. Petals f in., purple-mauve, ^"v^^^ 

 with a beak more than half their own length. Bristles on the apex of the ovary ^^^^ 

 16. Fruit ^-| in. broad, ovoid-oblong, calyx-limb deciduous. . i^ 



Var. Heffen ; neck of fruit more produced upwards with 8 ribs, pectinate b^^^, 

 oa the lower half of the fruit placed in three whorls encircling it lio^i^^^^^. y* jted 

 nasserim and Andamans, Heifer. Wallich, No. 4069 partly.— 0. zeylanica is ^^ 

 -ftdth 0. chinensis Linn, by Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 74. 



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Sect. III. Ceramicalyz. Shmhs or stout herbs. -P^"^"?J^^^S 



4-.merous. Calyx campanulate produced in fruit into a long or short sec 



altogether truncate. Anthers large, produced into a very long beak 



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Wiffht Le. t. 1612 ; stems ^vith ff ^^fM*^?^ 

 pedicels round manv extra ones "^^^^^^I^^^k 



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O. blBpidlssima, 



"bristles |-| in,, bracts to the pedicels rouna many 

 calyx-segments oblong obtuse glabrous on the back strongly ciliate. 

 Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxviii. 53. 



Mysoee ; Wostara, aeghorn. Deccan Peninsula; Munda Kani, ^^d^^f^J^n^- 



Suffruticose, erect ; branches stout, tetragonal. Leaves 4-6 in., 1*°^^^ ' im^ 



rowed at both ends, with strong bristles scattered on both surfaces or m one sp ^ 



nearly glabrous, nerves 3 strong and 2-4 faint ; petiole f-| in. Corymbs ^ .^^ 



flowered; flowers dark crimson (Wight). . CaJyx-tube with scattered pe"* 



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