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997. (4) O. Wightiana (Benth. :) shrubby: branches herbaceous, scabrous 
with short bristles: leaves nearly sessile, ovate, slightly acute, quite entire, 
5-7-nerved ; upper side covered with adpressed somewhat shining hairs ; un- 
der hirsute on the nerves and shortly tomentose between them: flowers 
(large) terminal, at first densely capitate and bracteated, afterwards often so- 
litary : calyx campanulate, densely eovered with short adpressed scales, bear- 
ing a tuft of long bristles at the apex; segments 5, deciduous; appendages 
deciduous, covered with bristles : anthers 10, linear-oblong, scarcely beaked : 
style elavate.— Benth. ! in Wall.! L. n. 4060 ; Wight! cat. n. 1145, 1146.— 
O. capitata, Don / mst.—Ben Kadali, Rheed. Mal. 4. p. 89. Neelgherries. 
À very beautiful species, with flowers as large as in Melastoma malabarica. 
998. (5) O. virgata (Don! mst.:) shrubby : branches straight, twiggy, 4-an- 
gled, hispid: leaves petioled, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, quite 
entire ; upper side sprinkled with adpressed hairs ; under hirsute on the nerves, 
otherwise glabrous : flowers aggregated : calyx-tube urceolate, sprinkled with 
simple and 2-3-partite spreading bristles, sometimes nearly naked ; segments 
5, deciduous ; appendages deciduous, being usually deeply trifid or sometimes 
simple bristles: anthers 10, shortly beaked ; ovary crowned with numerous 
bristles : style incurved near the apex.— Wight ! cat. n. 1147.—0O. inappendi- 
culata, Don! mst.—Melastoma glomerata, Herb. Klein !—Rheed. Mal. 4. 
t. 44?.— —Mountains between Tinnevelly and Travancore; Klein. 
999. (6) O. cupularis (Don! mst.:) shrubby: branches nearly terete or 
slightly 4-angled, covered with adpressed bristles : leaves short-petioled, 8-5- 
nerved, quite entire, oval or oblong ; upper side sprinkled with bristles ; un- 
der hirsute on the nerves, sprinkled with bristles between them : flowers co- 
rymbosely racemose : calyx-tube shortly urceolate, copiously sprinkled with 
simple and stellate longish spreading bristles; segments 5, deciduous ; ap- 
pendages deciduous, longish, bearing a stellate tuft of bristles at the apex: 
anthers 10, linear-oblong, somewhat obtuse: ovary crowned with numerous 
istles : Style incurved near the apex.—Wight / cat. n. 1148.—O. Wightiana, 
Benth.? in’ Wall. L. n. 4074 (not 4060).——Malabar Coast. Southern pro- 
vinces, 
: Although this differs considerably in habit from the last, it does so very 
little in the character. Perhaps Rheede’s Mal. 4. t. 43, ought to be referred 
ere, instead of to the next, under which it is usually quoted. 
1000. (7) O. aspera (Blume:) shrubby: branches obscurely 4-angled, 
"ough from short strigose bristles: leaves shortly petioled, oblong-ovate or 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, obtuse at the base, 3-nerved ; upper side copiously 
clothed with adpressed bristles ; under hirsute on the nerves, and harshly pu- 
ent between them: flowers on short pedicels, terminal, somewhat race- 
mose: calyx-tube cup-shaped, copiously clothed with adpressed rigid pubes- - 
cence ; segments 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, deciduous ; appendages caducous, 
consisting of a tuft of a few (sometimes only 1) bristles: stamens 10 ; anthers 
acuminated but scarcely beaked : style incurved at the apex ; ovary crowned 
with numerous bristles.— Don / mst.; Wight! cat. n. 1149.—0. glauca, 
Benth.? in Wall. L. n. 4073.—Melastoma asperum, Linn. sp. p. 560 ; Don! 
'n Wern. Soc. trans. 4. p. 288; DC. prod. 3. p. 145 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 295.— 
l. Mal. 4. t. 43? ; Rumph. Amb. 4. t. 71 ?—Malabar coast. à 
Neither of the above figures convey any idea of our o ; but that ours is 
he Linnean species we have the authority of Mr D. Don, who indeed was 
ŝo kind as look over and name all the specimens of this and the following 
genera in the order in our Peninsular herbarium. In Dr Wight’s herbarium 
Cenother species (O. K/einii, W. & A.) closely allied, from Trincomalee in 
Ceylon, gathered by Klein in January 1796, but the specimens are very im- 
Perfect : the leaves are 5-nerved, slightly strigose and oblong-lanceolate, and 
 PF'semble a good deal those in Rumph's fle, eri plates above mentioned : 
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