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 nnlate,'tinincate.— United by Mr. Thwaites with 0. aspera above, from which itdiflers- 

 by the more pectinate-scaly calyx, and hardly by any other character. , j m^ 



"^VlS. b." l-eschenaultiana, DC, Prodr. iii. 142; flowers 1-5 clustered 



with much rufous hair, leaves subsessile ovate obtuse or elliptic acute usually 

 somewhat rounded at the base, calyx-tube densely clothed with stelked stellate 



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Leaves 1-U in., S-S-nerved; 



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Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 309 ; branches 



surfaces petiole ^ m., flowers 1-5 clustered, calyx-tube densely covered witj 

 stalked stellate hairs teeth lanceolate acute covered with simple and clusterqa 

 bristles. Naud in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 62 ; Triana in Tram. Um. i^oc. 

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Cetxok; Wight, Walker, Gardner. 



A branched shrub. Leaves 1-2 in., usually rounded at the base. 

 i in. Fruit | in. wide, campanulate," truncate.— Triana reduces here <^- ^^'^-^^V 

 Naud. 1. c. : but Naudin says his 0. elUptica has short triangular calyx -teeth: vrni^ 

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 densely clothed with adpressed hairs, leaves ovate acute petioled densely na^ 

 on both surfaces and also alveolate-reticulate beneath, flowers 1-3 ^^^^^^I\J 

 calyx-tube with large densely clustered bunches of hairs teeth short oblong oDU^ 

 densely ciliate scabrous and with a laxee terminal substellate hair. 0. alveo^ j 

 Bedd. let. 168, v 





Deccan Peninsula ; Anamallay Mts., above 6000 ft. alt. ; CoL Beddome. ^^ 



A branched shrub. Leaves 1-4 in., round or subcordate at the base, 5-9-nerv r 



petiole 1-1 in. Fruit ^ in. broad, campanulate, truncate. ■ ' ' ^-^ 



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21. O. nfoonii, Thtvaites JEnum. -p. 105; procimibent, ^^^^^^^..^^Suate 

 nodes, peduncles 1-flowered, calyx-teeth long-lanceolate acute witn sie ,.^ 

 hairs. Tinana in Tram. lAnn. Soc. xxviii. 55. 4 



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Cetlon ; Colombo and Saffragam District ; somewhat rare, Thwaites. pitIpti<V 

 Sie7n8 elongate, roundish, with scattered lax hairs. Leaves 1-3 in., ^f*?^^"Ljtary 

 acute, 5-nerved, hairy on both surfaces ; petiole ^-J in. Peduncles ^-H/^'' densely 

 or few and subumbelled, carrying small round or ovate bracts. ^^^^^'^^ ilu less 

 clothed with stalked stellate hairs standing at right angles to the surface. ^^. . 

 than ^ in. broad, campanulate or somewhat ovoid, truncate. 



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