48 MELASTOMACEiE 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



[ Leaves penninerved ; flowers small blue . memecylon. 

 a-{ Leaves 3 or more ribbed from the base ; petals 4 or 5 . b 



[ Firs, large ; petals 3 pink : herbs sonerila. 



r Shrubs or herbs with purple showy flowers . . osbeckia. 

 b \ Epiphytic shrubs with small pink or white flowers 



[ MEDINILLA. 



OSBECKIA. 



See Vol. I p. 154, but add: the calyx has, on the 

 mouth between the lobes, appendages bearing tufted 

 bristles. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



r Petals 4, red and white. A herb Vol. I p. 155 ; II t. 113. 

 a < O. cupularis. 



(Petals 5, purple or pink b 



, f Stem fleshy, glabrous, glaucous . . . . O. sublaevis. 



(Stem hairy c 



f All hairs of calyx simple. Flowers purple . O. lineolata. 



Lower hairs of calyx simple, upper tufted ..... d 



' Calyx hairs in stalked tufts. Branches red with spreading 



hairs. Vol. I p. 156, II t. 115 O. leschenaultiana 



Calyx hairs in broad nearly, sessile tufts. Vol. I p. 157, 



t. 335 • . . O. rectiulata. 



, rFlowers, purple, leaves, densely, softy hairy above 



< Vol. I p. 156, II t 114. O. wightiana. 



(Flowers pink. Leaves sparsly hairy . . Osbeckia, Sp. 



Osbeckia lineolata Gamble. A shrub, branchlets 

 slender, glabrous, glaucous. Leaves drying yellow, 

 broadly elliptic, three-nerved ; nearly smooth but strongly 

 lineolate on the upper surface by the hairs being adnate 

 for nearly their whole lengths. Flowers capitate or 

 racemed purple red. Calyx bristles all simple, except 

 at the tips of the triangular appendages. Capsule % 

 inch companulate. 



Pulneys : near Perumal. Bourne 1532. 

 Gen. Dist. Nilgiris and Pulneys, to 6,000 feet. [ G.F.M.P.'] 



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