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Lx. MELASTOMACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 



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'" 14. O. aspera, JSlume in Flora, 1831, p. 474; leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 or elliptic-acute sparsely hairy on both surfaces or nearly glabrous beneath except 

 on the nerves, calyx-tube strigose or sparingly clothed with pectinate bristle- 

 bearing scales, segments | in. ovate-oblong obtuse ciliate with a few clustered 

 but scarcely stellate bristles on the top. W. ^' A. Frodr. 323 {excl syn. O. 

 glauca 5en^A.) ; Wight Jc. 377; Thwaites Enum, p. 106 («« to var a. and p, 

 only) ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 74 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 64. O. Kleinii, Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 309 ; Triana l. c. O. 



minor, Ti-iana Z. c. 56. Melastoma aspenim, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 145 {oniit- 

 ting sgn.). 



Deccan Peninsula ; Wight. Ceyxon ; at no great elevation, Thwaites. 



A low shrub, woody below ; branches often elongate, adpressedly scabrous. Leaves 



1-2 in.; petiole ^-^ in. Cbr^?/ife usually 3-6-flowered. Calyx-lobes much longer 



than broad. Frttit ^-J in, broad, campanulate, truncate. — Triana founded his new 



sp. 0. minor on Mr. Thwaites' No. 1569 ; and does not state in what particulars the 



species differs from 0. aspera, 0. Kleinii and 0. glauca ; but they must be very 

 minute. 



Var. 1. typica\ no stellate hairs on the calyx. 



VAR. 2. Kleinii; several or very few stelj.ate hairs on the calyx-tube, hairs at the 

 fiummits of calyx-lobes clustered but hardly stellate. 



Wall 



obtuse at either end softly hairy on both surfaces, calyx-tube with 



small Stellatp hRiisa f^iofli l in nT-»+.iiao (rlahrmiQ C\n thft hfl.r*.k mliatft 



stellate hair at the summit. 

 Sot Mag. 6086. 



Trincomalee, Travancorb 

 <^oi^ 4073. 



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O. aspera, 



. . Small, T! 

 campanulat 



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ds. Leaves 

 , } in. broad, 

 With larger flowers and more silky hairs than 0. aspera. 



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16. O. 



Walkeri, A7'n. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag 



^^ajTOWed at hnfh Pn^s mflro-infl nnf. r(^.o.uvvfi{\ hairv O] 



fulv 



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dly fulvous-hairy teeth narrowly Ian 

 without cilia or stellate hairs. Thiva 

 n. Soc. xxviii. 64, excl. var. B. Bechetii 



. Ceylon; alt. 6000-8000 ft.; Walker, Gardner, Thwaites No. 1571. 



A small shrub; branches hispid. Leaves 1 in., 3-nerved; petiole J in. Flowers 

 1-3, in terminal clusters. Calyx-fuhe with, small clustered substellate hairs.^ Fruit 

 i-f in. broad, campanulate, truncate. — This species is close to 0. buxifolia, Am. 

 ^om which it differs by the petioled leaves without recurved margins, and by the 

 aapressed hairs on calyx-tube. But Thwaites' specimen No 2618 has leaves with 

 ^TiTved margins and adprcssed hairs on the calyx-tube: and is called 0. buxifolia 

 P. niiior by Thwaites, 0. Walkeri 0. Bechetii by Triana. 



17. O. Wlgrhtiana, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4060 ; silkily hairy towards the 

 «nds of the branches, leaves 6-7-nerved softly hairy on both surfaces elliptic or 

 oblong usually acute, flowers 1-5 clustered, calyx-tube densely covered with 

 Pectinate scales fringed by long bristles, teeth } in. ovate-oblong obtuse covered 

 ^th simple or somewhat clustered haii-s. W. Sf A. Prodr. 323 ; Wight Ic. 

 ^8.; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 63; Tria7ia in Trans. Linn. Soc. 



/XT ^^^^ Peninsula 

 V^o. 1570 var. 5.). 



Ceylon, alt. 3000-5000 ft., Thwaites 



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