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perforatis modice petiolatis tenue et copiose penniveniis, vena 
peripherica margini approximata, umbellis 3-5-floris paniculatis, 
pedicellis fructiferis crassis angulosis fructu et pedunculo ancipite 
aliquoties brevioribus, fructibus semiovatis paulisper angulatis 
extus cirea verticem stria latiuscula impressis 3-5 loculatis, valvis 
aeutis conspicue emersis, seminibus apteris. 
Ad sinum oceanicum Rockingham Bay.  Dallachy. 
Arbor 40-50. Ramuli leves, robusti, Folia 4-6" longa, 13-2" 
lata, subtus pallidiora, basi paulo inzequilatera; acumen szpe eur- 
vatum, Flores ignoti. Pedunculi fructiferi 8-10" longi, cirea 2" 
lati. Fructus prater valvarum partes emersas 4—5" longi, circum 
verticem anguste depressi; valvarum partes exserte 13-2" longs. 
Semina sat parva, fertilia sterilibus latiora. : 
MELASTOMACEJE. 
Osbechia Chinensis. 
Linné, Spec. Plant. 490 ; Osbeck, Dagbok oefwer en Ostindisk Resa aren, 213, 
tab.ii,; Loureiro, Flor. Cochinchin i, 281; Willd. Spec. Plant. ii, 300; 
Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 50 ; Benth. Flor. Hong-Kong, 114; O. angus- 
tifolia, Don, Prodr. Flor. Nepal. 221; Wallich. Plant. Asiat. rarior. t. 251 ; 
Blume,1 c. 51; Naudin in Annal. des Science. Nat. 3 ser. vol. xiv. 69; O. 
linearis, Blume in Bijdr, Nat. Wet. vi. 219, 1; in Regensb. Bot. Zeit. 1831, 
473; et Mus. Bot. Lugdun. i. 51, t. xix. ; Naudin,1. c. 70; Miq. Flor. 
Ind. Batav. i. 519; Tristemma angustifolia, Blume, Bijdrag Flor, Nederl, 
Ind. 1079. (Sect. Oxyrhinz.) : 
Frutescens v. suffruticosa, ramis tetragonis strigillosis, foliis 
angusto-lanceolatis passim fere linearibus brevissime petiolatis 
trinerviis subtili-strigosis, floribus in apice ramorum paucis con- 
gestis brevissime pedicellatis, calycis tubo parce squamulis setulosis 
consperso, laciniis quatuor semilanceolatis acutis ciliolatis tubo 
sub:equilongis, appendiculis interjacentibus setulosis, petalis glabris, 
antheris longe et gracillime rostratis basi minutim auriculatis, 
capsula quadrivalvi. 
In paludibus ad sinum Rockingham Bay. Dallachy. 
Planta ad 3' alta. Folia speciminum australium 1-2" longa, 
2—4" lata. Bractes involucrantes, 2—3" longs, semilanceolatz v. 
lineari-lanceolatz. Pedicelli vix 1" longi. Calycis tubus florifer 
tantum squamulis paucis pluri- v. triseteis conspersus; lacinise 
acutate, preter marginem eiliatum glabrae, cirea 2" longze, deciduse ; 
lobi 4 interjacentes minuti, semioblongi, fimbriato-setosi. Petala 
glabra, purpurea, subrotunda, circiter 5" metientia, basi breviter 
euneato-angustata. Stamina 8, glabra. Filamenta tenui-filiformia, 
purpurascentia. Antherz lutez, praeter rostrum 1"" paulo longiores, 
dimidiato-ovatz, basi annulo extus paulo productiore et leviter 
emarginato auriculatzs, rostro j" longo pertenui apice uniporoso 
terminate. Stylus purpurascens, cirea 4" longus, glaber, filiformis. 
Stigma minutum, truncatum. Fructus urceolatus, 21-4" longus, 
