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O. glauca can only differ by very minute characters, they seem to 
be quite easily distinguished from each other and from the three 
new species which I have thought it right to describe out of the 
rather heterogeneous sheets included in the Kew cover of O. 
aspera, viz.: UO. lineolata, O. courtallensis and O. Lawsont. They 
have been published in the Kew Bulletin. 
Lam not sure that Osbeckia rostrata, D. Don, var. pulchella, 
Triana, of which there is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium, 
should not be considered as a separate species. Beddome sent it 
to Kew with a description as O. recalva, but C. B. Clarke con- 
sidered it to be the same as var. pulchella, though it seems to me 
different from the specimens of that variety from Bengal, Wall. 
Cat. 4059 and 4063, which do not quite answer to Clarke’s 
description. 
sbeckia cupularis, Don, seems to be as often 5-merous as 
4-merous, and this has to be remembered by field botanists who 
may be puzzled by the explanatory notes of Clarke’s in the * Flora 
of British India.’ 
Osbeckia sublaevis, Cogn. Of this species I have seen no 
authentic specimens, so that my identification of those which I 
have assumed to belong to it had to be done entirely by the 
description. I believe that my identification is correct. As I 
collected it myself on the rocks near the road leading to Sispara 
in the Nilgiris, I remember it as a small, almost fleshy, under- 
shrub with very bright large flowers. 
Since Part 3 was published, specimens of the following two 
Ceylon mountain species have been sent to Kew by the Madras 
Herbarium from the Travancore-Tinnevelly mountains. e 
following are the necessary additions to the key and 
descriptions : — 
Tufts of bristles mostly stalked, some, on 
the lower part especially, sessile, append- 
ages long-stalked, calyx-lobes triangular- 
lanceolate, pectinate on the margins. 
Calyx-lobe with one large tuft of bristles 
at apex, simple bristles on the mid-rib 
at back, the bristles straight; leaves 
elliptic-oval, obtuse or obtusely acute at 
apex, subcordate at base, scabrous- 
hairy, up to 3 in. by 15 in., 5-ribbed. 7.* rubicunda. 
Calyx-lobes with many bulbose bristles 
towards apex and on midrib at back, the 
bristles long and curved; leaves orbi- 
cular-ovate, cordate at base, ferruginous- 
villous, the margins recurved, °5 in. in 
diameter, strongly 5-7-nerved, the 
nerves impressed ‘iy or .  7.** burifolia. 
7.* Osbeckia rubicunda, Arn.; F.B.I. ii 520. 
W. Ghats, on Agastiamalai peak, Travancore-Tinnevelly 
boundary, about 6000 ft. (Barber). — 
A shrub with large purple-red flowers in terminal clusters. 
