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Bof. iJe^. 1475; Naud. in Ann, Sc. Nat. set". 3. xiv. 68 



Triana in Trans, Linn, Soc. xxviii. 55 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. -^^^''^^P^-^^- ' 



O. Chulesis, Don Prodr. 221 ; DC. Prodr. 143. 0. speciosa, Dm Prodr. 222 



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^ .' Sttbtropicai HntALAYA from Nepal eastwards and in the Khasia Mts 



0-4000 ft., abundant. — Distkib. Ava. 



A shrub ; branches with adpressed hairs. Bracts ovate, glabrous, villous, centre 

 of the backs viUose. Flowers purple-mauve or white. Fruit f by | in., campanulatc, 

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Shrubs. Leaves subcoriaceous, entire, 3-5-nerved. Panicles small, tfrmnal 

 subterminal. Calvx-tuhe ovoid, carrying pectinate 



ibrous ; teeth 5-6, deciduous. Petals 5-6, obovate. Stamens 

 lightly longer ; anthers opening by one pore at the sunumt 



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connective not produced at the base, augmented by two . ^ 



close to the anthers in the shoiler stamens a little removed below them in tne 

 longer. Ovary half-inferior, apex carrying bristles, 6-6-celled ; style ^^f^^ 

 simple ; ovides very numerous, placentas axile, radiating. Fruit a berry._ ^^^^ 

 very many, curved through half a circle, minutely punctate 

 2 or 3, extending from Burma to Singapore, Malaya, the PI 

 Australia. 



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O/an^A^a comes between OshecJcia ^xik Melastoma: the alternate stamens ow^ 

 auricled at the base exactly on the plan of those in Melastoma, but in a mucn x . 

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 xxv. 00. Melastoma cyanoides DC, Prodr- iii/l46. M. moluccanunl; 



axils, fruit ovoid truncate with scattered on^^xi-^j „™— _^, ^ 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt.'i. 515. O'. cyanoides, Triana in '^— ° '""'^- ^ 



hairs. 



Mus. Bot. p. 66, t. 20 : Naud 



43 Quoted by Tnana 



Bracts ovate. 



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Bijd. 1078 ; DC. Prodr. iii. Uid.—{Itheede KorU Mai 

 may be O. rubra-limbatd). 



Mehgui; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2253) 

 (Triana). 



. Stems scabrous. Leaves 2-2^ in., elliptic-lanceolate ; petiole \ in 

 deciduous. Petals less than I in., white. Fruit | in. broad. rtmated 



[0. bra^teata, Korth. has the calyx-tube covered with long simple fPP^^TLrgis- 

 ascending bristles, the broad bracts on the pedicels several close together suopf^^^ 

 tent : otherwise it is much like 0. Tnoluccana, Kurz i^ For. Fl. I 502 and ^^J -^^ 

 As, Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 75, says 0. braeteata, Korth. is not unfrequent in ^^^^ ^\^ 

 But Griffith's Mergui plant is clearly 0. cyanoides Triana as appears from exi" ^ ^ 

 named by Triana's hand, while Kurz quotes Triana for 0. bracieata.'] i 



2. O. nlcobarensls, J'^ys/n. ^ Binn. Nov. PL Hart, -^^^f j]' Jf^.; ^ 



fruit oblong 



illary in small panicles, calyx-teeth glabrous acuminate 



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 Buitenzorg Botanic Garden ; Kurz {Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 131)- ■:\'^- leaves 



A low shrub; branches tetragonous, subglabrous, bi-*- ^«^'^ at the noaes. ^ ^^.^ 

 f-3 in., 6via.te or oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded at th( 

 gose on both surfaces ; petiole | in. Petals 5, purple. 



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