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in Ann. Sc, Nat. sei\ 3. xiv. 73. O. campestris, Wall, Cat. 40( 

 lon^collis, Wall Cat. 4065. Melastoma pulchella, Roxh. FL Ind. ii. - 

 Melastomacea, Griff. Ic. 638. 



In the swamps at the foot of the Himalaya, from Nipal to Burma ; abundant in 

 North and East Bengal including Assam at 500-1000 ft. alt. ; and (ex J. D. H.) 

 ascends the hills to 4000 ft. alt. ^ T . 



Erect, 4-8 ft., virgate, hardly divided except towards the corymb. Leaves S-S im, 

 o-nerved, often in whorls of three, broadly lanceolate, glabrous or with long hairs scat- 

 tered on both surfaces ; petiole ^-^ in. Corymb often with elongated branches ; bracts 

 ovate, glabrous or little hairy. Calt/x when young glabrous or somewhat ^^^^^^ 

 stellate hairy. Petals rose-purple. Bristles on the apex of the ovary or about 20. 

 Fruit I in., generally glabrous finally, sometimes with scattered^ stellate ^^!®'.T^ 

 species easily recognised by its habitat (Terai- or rice-swamps), its erect undividea 

 stem and its rose-purple flowers. It varies greatly in hairiness. i. i f i 



Var, 1. pulchella^ Benth.; stem leaves calyx and apex of ovary absolutely 

 glabrous, '^ 



Var. 2. hiigicoUis, Wall. ; stem with hispid patent scattered bristles, leaves 

 bristly-hairy on both surfaces, young calyx somewhat densely stellate-hairy, fruit witn 

 scattered stellate hairs. . i, ' 



Var. 3. 0. marginulata, Wall. Cat. 4064 ; stem and capsule with ascending hair^ 

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12. O. grracUis, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 216 ; erect, slender, neari; 

 glabrous, leaves 2^-3 in. narrow lanceolate 3-nerved bristle-hairy on both si^ 

 faces, petiole f-| in., peduncles with 2-3 large flowers, calyx-tube with a^iew 

 remote bristles lobes ciliate ended by a bunch of bristles, anthers without beaKs. 

 (Resembling 0. longicollis Wallicb i.e. O. rostrata above). 



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Deccan Peninsttla ; Anamallay Mts. ; alt. 4000 ft., Col. Beddome. . r ^i 



This species (only known from Col. Beddome's description here copied) is reterrea 



by Triana {Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 54) to his section Ceramicalyx, which has ve^ 



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 the flowers, anthers, fruit and hairs on the ovary are much the same in all. Xu® »P 

 cies are separated by minute or trifling characters only ; Triana makes more than 

 following eight, Thwaites less, out of the same material.] 



13. O. buxifolia, Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 809; leaves *i^ 

 subsessile ovate oUuse 3-5-nerved rufous -woolly beneath nearly S^^^^^^^T'^ 

 above, calyx-teeth \~\ in. long-lanceolate acute rufous-villons without. •^'"^I u 

 Ann. Sc.Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 63; Thtcaites JSnum. p. 105; Triana in Trans. J;^i^ 



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