the Deccan, at an elevation of 3500 feet. Asarule it affects 
very wet places, and especially rice-swamps, &c., but it 
sometimes may be found in moist places in the hills. 
Osbeckia rostrata was introduced into Kew about twenty- 
five years ago, and flowered first in 1857, but the plant has 
been lost, and I am indebted to Messrs. E. G. Henderson, 
of Pine Apple Place, for the fine specimen here figured, 
which flowered in October, 1880. It requires stove 
treatment. 
Descr. A rather slender sparingly-branched herbaceous 
shrub two to four feet high, glabrous, hairy, or hispid. Stem 
soft, strict, sometimes as thick as the finger at the base 
and four-winged, four-angled above, side-branches if any 
usually long and slender. Leaves three to ten inches long, 
opposite and three-nately whorled, subsessile or with short 
thick petioles, elliptic-oblong -ovate or -lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, quite entire or crenulate; transverse nerves distinct. 
Flowers two to two and a half inches in diameter, four- 
merous, in loose terminal corymbs with four-angled 
peduncles and pedicels; bracts ovate, caducous. Calyx 
half to nearly an inch long; tube with an inflated base, 
glabrous or stellately pubescent; limb with four ovate 
acute segments. Petals nearly orbicular, with a waved 
margin. Anthers subequal, with long curved beaks. Ovary 
with a glabrous or hispid crown. Fruiting calyz glabrous, 
or clothed sometimes densely with very long stellate hairs, 
giving it a shaggy appearance.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, base of calyx and lip of ovary; 3, transverse section of 
ovary :—all magnified. 
