7C2 Lix. MELASTOMACE.E. [Osbeckia. 



C. Astronieee. Ovayy 4- to ^-celled ; seeds many ; anthers with slits ; trees. 

 Panicles terminal ...... 23. Astronia 



Cymes axillary, rarely paniclcd. 



Flowers blue or white ..... 24. Pternandra 



D. Memecylese. Trees or shrubs ; ovary i-celled ; fruit drupe ; stamens 8. 

 Leaves pinnate-nerved . . . . -25. Memecylon 



1. OSBECKIA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs, usually bristly. Leaves sub-coriaceous, often 

 sessile 3- to 7-nerved from base. Flowers terminal solitary, capitate 

 (or panicled) showy, pink, often involucrate. Calyx-tube ovoid 

 or urceolate, scaly or bristly; lobes subulate or lanceolate 4 to 5. 

 Petals obovate, 4 to 5. Stamens 8 to 10, all similar. Fruit capsular 

 opening by 4 or 5 pores. Species 32, Indian, with 2 or 3 Malaya 

 and Australia. 



Herbs erect branched. Stamens 4 or 8. 



Leaves oblong or linear . . . . . (i) 0. cbinensis 



Leaves ovate-oblong . . . . . (2) 0. cochinchinensis 

 Shrub with short broad coriaceous leaves ; stamens 

 10. 

 Calyx covered with whorls of hairs on short 



pedicels . . (3) 0. perakensis 



(i) O. chinensis Linn. Sp. PI. 490; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 224; 

 Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 515. 



Herb, erect branched, wiry, 6 in. to 2 ft. tall. Leaves oblong 

 or linear, narrowed at base, hairy, 1-5 to 2 in. long, -2 in. wide. 

 Flowers capitate, i in. across, mauve. Bracts ovate. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, sub-glabrous, teeth lanceolate, ciliate on edge. Stamens 8. 

 Fruit ovoid, glabrous or with a few bristles, -2 in. long. Hah. Open 

 country, Setul (Haniff). Distrib. India, Cambodia, Malay islands. 



(2) O. cochinchinensis Cogn. Mon. Phan. I.e. 331. 



A dwarf wiry herb about 6 in. tall. Stems 4-angled. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, blunt 3- to 5-nerved, sparsely bristly, about i in. 

 long. Flowers i or several. Calyx hairy, -25 in. long; lobes 

 narrow, triangular, long ciliate. Petals 4. Stamens 4. Hah. 

 Heathy country, Setul (Ridley). Disirib. Cochin-China. 



(3) O. perakensis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 79, p. 66. 

 Shrub about 8 ft. tall, branching. Young parts, petioles, upper 



surface and nerves of leaves beneath covered thickly with short, 

 stiff bristles. Leaves coriaceous elliptic-ovate obtuse, base round, 

 1-25 in. long, 75 in. wide; petioles -15 in. long. Flowers 3 to 5 

 in a head, sessile with a few bracts at base, in fruit pedicelled; 

 pedicel -i in. long. Calyx ovoid, densely covered with simple 

 bristles and whorls of bristles on short stalks ; lobes long narrow, 

 acuminate. Petals i in. long, obovate, deep rose pink. Stamens 

 10. Style stout. Capsule covered with bristles as in flower, 

 •4 in. long, '3 in. through. Hah. Mountains local. Perak, Gunong 

 Hijau on Thaiping Hills (Mrs. Bland; J. W. Anderson). 



