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0S13ECKIA* ne])alrnsis ; /v/y. alhiH()ra. 

 WItite-Jlowered Nipal O^beckia. 



OCTANDRTA MONOGVNIA. 



Nat. ord. Melastomacl^e /«AS. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botam/, p. (M.) 



OSBECKIA.— Supra, vol. l.fol. 542. 



Sect. OSBKCKIAUIA. 



Calyces 4-5-fidi, setis a basi palmatis per totmn tubum ornati ; ap- 

 pendices phiinosa) aut stcpiiis pectinata; ; lolii dL-muin cum appendicibus 

 docidui, ore calvcis truncato. — Species ornnes Asiaticcc, et forsan noiinuli.u 

 Africanoe h'lc adjunpjc-nda;. — De Cand. prodr. .3. 141. 



O. yiepaletisis ; herbacea? (surtVuticosa), ramis subtetragonis setis brevibu3 

 adpressis asperis, foliis scssilibus oblongo-lanceolatis brevt; et appresse 

 pilosis 5-nerviis, floribus fasciculatis bracteatis, calycis squaniulis latia 

 palmato-ciliatis, lobis deciduis longitudine tubi obovati. — De Cand. I. c. 

 O. nepalensis. Hooker exot.fi. ^ 31. (floribus purpureis.) 

 O. speciosa. Don prodr.fi. nepal. p. 222. 



A very pretty Greenhouse plant, native of Ni|)al, whence 

 seeds have been at various times sent to England by 

 Dr. Wallich. A purple-flowered variety was originally 

 raised in the Gardens of Glasgow and Edinburgh; and 

 iVom a specimen that flowered in the latter collection, in 

 June 1822, Dr. Hooker's figure, in the E.ivtic Flora, was 

 drawn. 



That which is now published with white flowers was 



* " Received its name from Linnaeus, in honour of his disciple Peter 

 Osbeck, a Swedish cier-^vmaii, who performed a voyajj:e to Cliina, as chaplain 

 to a Swedish East Indiaman, and publislied an account of his voyage, par- 

 ticularly of his observations in Natural History, which lias been translated 

 into German and English. — He contributed several papers on fishes, in- 

 sects, and various economical plants, to the Stockholm Transactions." — ■ 

 Smith. 



