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hairs and a few compound hairs near the top, teeth long-lanceolate with simple hair?- 



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23. O. octandra, DC. Pi-odr. iii. 142 ex Triana\ branches and branch-^ 

 lets woody, leaves oblong to lanceolate short-petioled 3-ner\-ed sparingly sca- 

 brous or quite smooth on the upper surface, flowers scattered or 2-5 shortly 

 pedicelled, calyx-teeth ovate-oblong, fruit scarcely \ in, broad obscurely ribbed 

 or smooth sometimes with scattered stellate hairs. Triana in Trans, Linn. Soc, 

 xxviii. 54 excl nearly all s7/n, O. virgata, W. ^A. Prodr. 323 ; Thwaites 

 Enu7n, p. 105 ; Naud, in Ann. Se. Nat. ser, 3. xiv. p. 61. O. polycephala^ 

 Naud. I c, 67. 0. Wightiana, Benth. in Wall Cat. 4074. [Of the figiu^a 

 quoted by Triana, Bot. Mag. 2235 and Wight Ic. 998 do not refer to the present 

 plant ; Bot. Mag. 4026 has been referred above to O. chinensis ; and Wight 

 Ic. 376 7nay represent our var. major but does not give any idea of the typical 

 Q. octandra, DO.] 



■ ' South Deccan Peninsuxa in and near the mountains; plentiful. Ceylon, up to 

 3000 ft. alt.; Thwaites. 



. Branches subquadrangular with adpressed hairs, or woody nearly round and gla- 

 crous. Leaves (in the typical 0. octandra) not more than 1 in. ; petiole ^ in. Calyx-tahe 

 Vith scattered stellate hairs, teeth usually ciliate and with one stellate terminal 

 bristle, sometimes perfectly glabrous. — -This typical woody small-leaved shrub appears 

 very distinct, but even the small-leaved branches carry sometimes large leaves also; 

 and it thus graduates into— 



Vab. major ; leaves larger often 2 in. frequently hairy on the upper sittface often 

 .^tened beneath, heads flowers and fruit larger than in the type. O. virgata, Wight 

 10. t. 376. — This variety is confounded by many authors with 0. cupularis ; but it 

 uiffers in the perianth being more constantly 5-merous, and in its anthers which are 

 not truncate nor suddenly narrowed into a very short beak, but gradually narrowed 

 upward. It has also been mixed with 0. aspera, but differs by the ovary having 

 intich fewer bristles on the top. 



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•24, O. nutansp Wall. Cat. 4068; leaves narrowly lanceolate 3-nerv'ed 

 glabrous striolate above scabrous on the nerves beneath, flowers in small clus- 

 ters, calyx-tube nearly glabrous with pectinate scales between the bases of the 

 <^lyx-teeth, calyx-teeth large broad lanceolate glabrous ciliate on margin hairy 

 at the vertex, fruit often nodding. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 64. 



SuBTaopicAx Himalaya from Sikkim eastwards, alt. 500-2500 ft., frequent to the 

 «Pper end of Assam ; also on the northern base of the Khasia Mts. 

 _ A woody branching small shrub. Leaves commmonly \l by ^ in. ; petiole ^ in.. 

 if lowers mauve-purple, not very large. Fruit \ in. broad, campanulate, truncate. 



25. O. Wjmaadensis, C.B. Clarke ^ stems with adpressed short hair^^ 

 J^es 5 in. oblong-lanceolar petiole I in., flowers in subterminal corymbs, calyx- 

 «ibe with scattered flat setigerous scales otherwise glabrous teeth large broad-Ian- 

 ceolate glabrous shortly ciliate. 



^ccAN Peninsula, Wight No. 1099; Wynaad, alt. 4000 ft.; C. B. Clarke. 

 Leaves 5-nerved, scabrous-hairy on both surfaces. Fruit \ in. broad, ovoid, trun- 

 *^te, the free part of the ovary with a ring of short hairs (joined at their base into ^ 



narrow tuhA^ nnot. U^ 4-^« ^*V,^«,-,*««. rA^X^^r^na 



. ^6. o. nepalensis, Hook. Fl. Exot. t. 31 ; leaves 8-4 in. elongate 

 jong-lanceolate 5-nen-ed softly hairy on both surfaces petiole less than | 

 ^^^ in small rather close corymbs, calyx-tube with lar^^e flat scales frir 

 J^W bristles of which 5 prominently alternate with the calyx-teeth, calyx-t 

 ^ge broad-lanceolate glabrous ciliate. DC. Fi^odr. iii. 142 ; Wall. Cat. 4( 





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