422 MELASTOMATACEAE. — OSBECKIA 



Osheckia stellata, j3 De CandoUe, Prodr. III. 142 (1828). 



Osbeckia crinita Bentham apud Wallich, Cat. No. 4066 (nomen nudum) (1829). 



Osheckia stellata Naudin in Ann. ScL Nat. s^r. 3, XIV. 72 (non D. Don) 



(1850). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XVI. 107 (1878). 

 Osbeckia crinita^ & yunnanensis Cogniaux in De CandoUe, Monog. Phaner. 



VII. 324 (1891). — Guillemin in Lecomte, Not. Syst. II. 308 (1913).— 



Uveill^, Fl Kouy-TchSou, 277 (1914). 

 Osheckia yunnanensis Franchet in herb, ex Cogniaux in De Candolle, Monog. 



Phaner. VII. 324 (pro synon.) (1891). 

 Melastoma Mairei L^veille in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. XI. 300 (1912). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, grassy mountains, alt. 600- 

 1000 m., August 1901 (VeitcliExped.No.2558). Western Szech'uan: 

 Kiating Fu, grassy hills, alt. 300 m., October 1908 (No. 3260; shrub 

 0.6-1 m, tall, flowers red). Yunnan : Szemao, hills, alt. 1500 m., A. 

 Henry (No. 12458 ). Kwangtung: Lienchou River, August 13, 1887, 

 C. Ford (Hongkong Herb. No. 1782), 



A small shrub rare in Hupeh but common in the neighborhood of Kiating Fu 

 and in Yunnan in open grass-clad places. We have followed Hemsley in the 

 determination of this plant. 



Wilson's No. 3260 agrees well with specimens from Khasia except that the 

 trabecular veinlets are somewhat more numerous and closer, while No. 2558 differs 

 in the shorter ovate leaves only sparingly setulose beneath and with fewer and less 

 distinct trabecular veinlets. Guillaunain refers all the Chinese plants to 0. crinita, 

 var. yunnanensis Cogniaux. 



