224 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Osbeckia, 
and terminal; those of the axils solitary, and short-pe- 
duncled ; the terminal from one to five, or seven toge- 
ther, and still shorter peduncled, a large, beautiful bright 
blue-purple. Bracies fringed, Calyx bristly ; interme- 
‘diate scales»consisting of a pedicelled star of bristles 
each. ; 
2. O. chinensis. Willd, 2. 360. 
Annual, erect, four-seeded, scabrous. Leaves sessile, 
lanceolate, three-nerved. . Flowers terminal, subsessile, 
four smaller divisions of the calyx fringed. 
Found in Cuttack, on dry rice fields, in flower during 
the cold season. ; Gees a , 
3. O. tetrandra. R. ae 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves opposite, three-nerved. e 
Panicle terminal. Flowers tetrandrous. g8 
A large, climbing’ shrub, a native of Pulo Pinang ae 
Tendrils few, scattered, solitary, undivided. Pie 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, three-nerved, cordate ae 
oblong, entire, smooth on both sides; a marginal vein 
runs round the leaves, which gives (her the appearance — 
of being five-nerved. Petioles short, bristly on the up- 
per side. Panicles terminal, cross-armed, conical; dé 
visions thereof trichotomous, Calyx one-leaved. Tube 
gibbous, permanent. Border four-parted, deciduous. — 
Petals four, alternate with the stamens, long-clawed, -cres- 
cent-shaped, fringed, each having a long spur projecting 
downward from the inside. Filaments four, inserted into 
the calyx. Anthers erect ; before expansion their points — 
are lodged in four deep pits, between the calyx and germ, 
with long perforated beaks and two small scales at the — 
base of each on the inside. Germ hidden within the calyx: 
Style awled.. Stigma simple. Capsules roundish, crowned 
with the entire tube of the calyx, four-celled ; cells 0j 
ingat top. Seeds Mog numerous. Receptacle semiluna zi 
