XLIX. MELASTOMACE. 291 
mprises a few African species besides a considerable number from tropica 
emite lirdiptlngo, including one of the Australian ones, the other Australian speeies 
Scales of the calyx with long bristles, 5 alternating 
with the lobes and sometimes a few below the middle of the tube. 
jor with long slender beaks 
5-merons. Scales of t the calyx with short bristles, very nume- oo 
3 Tots and completely covering the tube. Anthers with short beaks: . . 9. 0. australiana. 
SI. chinensis, Linn. P Pi. 490 (not Bot. Reg. nor Bot. Mag.). 
A herb S andershrub or shrub, from 14 to 3 ft. high, glabrous or with a few 
stiff hairs, Leaves very shortly petiolate, linear linear-oblong or almost 
. long. Flo 
l. O. chinensis. 
in ng. owers several together, sometimes very few, 
ing sessile terminal clusters, almost ias Bo into heads. Calyx-tube 
or rather more; lobes 4, not quite so lone as be, 
ecasionally a few ciliate scales on the tube below the middle. 
Ant p produced into a slender beak. Capsule 4- -celled.— Benth. 
with the synonymes adduced; P. Muell. Fragm. iv. 160 ; 
ia, Dons Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. t. 951. 
ckingham Bay, Dallachy. The species — over the Indian 
aud the eastern vera ‘of India to S. China and Form 
a, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 59. A shrub, 
" mate or less scabrous-pubescent. *Leaves linear or 
, mostly 1 to 2 in. long or smaller on the side-branches. 
O. chinensis. 
densely covered with tufts of rather short bristles (bristly scales) ; 
without ovate or ovate-lanceolate, much shorter than the tube, ciliate but 
tuft of hairs. Petals twice as long as the calyx-tube. 
Wi a short broad beak. Capsule 5-celled 
Ba veg ed M‘Adam Ee? and Arnhem’s Land, F. 
E 
2. OTANTHERA, Blume. 
(Lachnopodium, Blume.) 
d; lobes 5 or 6; deciduous, alternating with as many short 
appendages, Petals obovate. Stamens twice as many as 
all equal and similar ; anthers opening ina single pore on the summit, 
"ein produced at the Een into a short 2-lobed b epg turned 
inner face vary 5- celled, iod with Fruiting- 
pei ter the fall of de ffe ; capsule (in the ree are ie 
at the top in as many valves as there were cells to the ovary, in other 
e pulpy and less regularly dehiscent. Seeds cochleate, small and 
jr. :5.— Shrubs more or less strigose, with the habit of the smaller- 
a Melestomas. ` — 5- or 7-nerved. Flowers in terminal trichoto- 
“eyes op panicles 
Célyx-tube ovoi 
ri oad or 
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