MELASTOMACE^ 49 



Osbcckia sublacvis Cogn. '* A small fleshy shrub 

 with glabrous glaucous bluish branches and bright pur- 

 ple flowers in small terminal corymbose cymes. Tufts 

 of bristles all sessile. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, I to I^ 

 by /^ to J^ inch, three-ribbed lineolate on upper surface, 

 nearly glabrous on lower surface. 



Western Ghats from Mysore to Nilgiris, on rocks at about 

 7,000 feet. [CFM-I"'] 



Osbeckia sp. ? A small shrub. Branches square, 

 thinly covered with erect hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 three-ribbed. Hairs on upper surface sparse adnate about 

 one-third their lengths, on lower surface slightly adnate. 

 Cymes dense, terminal. Calyx bristles in tufts of 3 or 4, 

 the tufts sessile ; appendages linear. Petals about Yz 

 inch pink, with no trace of purple. Anthers hardly 

 attenuate upwards, t. 336. 



Nilgiris . at Coonoor on roadsides, common. Flowers, 

 in September. Fyson, 5734* 



I have not been able to determine the species of this. 



MEDINILLA. f.b.i. 6o xvi. 



Erect, scandent or epiphytic shrubs. Leaves ribbed 

 from the base. Flowers in terminal panicles or axillary 

 cymes, white or pink, 5 or rarely 6-merous. 



Medinilla malabarica Bedd. ; F.B.I ii 548, XVI 8. 

 An epiphytic sub-scandent shrub. Petioles, bases of 

 the leaves, peduncles and the large flowers all brilliant 

 crimson. Leaves 3 to zM inches by ij^ inch, elliptic 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, thinly fleshy. Flowers 

 I to 3 on a peduncle, in axillary fascicles. Petals 4. 

 Anthers short. 



Nilgiris : 3,000 to 7,000 feet. Also Anamalais. 



SONERILA. F.B.1.60X. 



Herbs with opposite leaves, 3 to 5 nerved from the base. 

 Flowers in racemes or scorpioid spikes and remarkable 

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