2*2 51. MKLASTOMACE.E. 



Inflorescence axillary. (4) 

 ( 1 ) Anthers 4, unequal, connectives not appendiculate ......... />/</*///*. 4 



Anther 4, unequal, larger ones 2-lobed at the apex ......... Bred'ia. 5 



1. Osbeckia LIXN. 



Dichotoinous Kc.y to the Formosan >Sy*Wr.v. 

 Flowers congested at the apex of the stem and usually afforded with a, 



whirl of leafy bracts .................................... <>. chi 



Mowers shortly pedicelled, without any whirl of leafy bracts. ... O. scaberrima. 



Osbeckia chinensis LINN.; MATSI-.M. et HAV.VTA Fnum. 1*1. Fonnos. p. 145. 



HAD. Taito, Suibi, Gilan, Holisha, Senton. 



DISTUJ;. Japan, Loo-choo, Hongkong, China, India. Malaya, Australia. 



Osbeckia SCaberrima HAVATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa, p. 115. 

 tranches strigose, cinerascent, straight, terete, slender, hairs strigose, 

 adpressed, strigoso-barbate at the apex of the branchlets. Leaves opposite, 

 elongato-oblong, or lanceolate-ovate, 4 cm. long, 1M mm. broad, obtusely acute 

 at the apex, rounded or acute at the base, quite entire, 5-nerved, glabrous 

 above only on. the costa, otherwise adpressingly strigose, hairs regularly ar- 

 ranged on areas between the nerves, but beset with stronger longer hairs 

 t'l mm. long) on marginal areoles, ad pressed! y ciliate on the margin, 

 beneath pallid, sparingly slightly strigose, but much more strigose on nerves. 

 petioles 4 mm. long, strigose. Flowers cymose, cymes 3-5-flowered, 2 cm. long. 

 Calyx-tube subglobose, 6 mm. long, strigose outside, lobes ovately triangular 

 acuminate, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, strigose on the middle, otherwise 

 glabrous, margin strigoso-ciliate, glabrous inside, long aristate between the 

 lobes, aristas very strong, tumid at the base. Petals rounded, margin ciliolate. 

 Sta.mens nearly 15, inserted on the throat of the calyx, mm. long, fila- 

 ments slightly complauate, :->.; mm. long, anthers lineal 1 , '2 \ mm. long, 

 .V mm. broad, one-pored at the apex, connectives produced at the base, 

 articulated with filaments. Ovary half -inferior, 5-celled, hirsute at the apex. 

 style simple, G rum. long, truncate and stigmatic at the apex. 



i </,sytrm II AY AT A Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 97 (non BLLME). 



