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907. Meteoromyrtus, Gamble, gen. nov.; Hugeniae, Linn., 
atinis, differt praecipue ovulis ab apice ovarii loculorum pen- 
dulis circiter 4. 
Arbor parva vel arbuscula. Folia opposita, membranacea, 
penninervia,. juventute villosa. Flores parvi, pedicellis uni- 
floris axillaribus vel supra-axillaribus villosis; bracteolae 
lineares 2 infra calycem et calyce longiores. Calycis tubus brevis 
ad faucem disco munitus, lobis 4 lanceolatis villosis corollae paullo 
longicribus. Petala 4, suborbicularia, pellucido-punctata. 
Stamina indefinita, annulo ad marginem disci inserta; antherae 
parvae, rimis longitudinalibus. Ovariwm biloculare, ovulis 
circiter 4 in utroque loculo ab apice pendulis; stylus elongatus; 
stigma subcapitatum. Fructus maturus ignotus. Species unica, 
M. wynaadensis, Gamble, comb. nov. Eugenia wynaadensis, 
Beddome in Madr. Lit. Soc. Journ. ex Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 35, t. 
161; Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. cx; Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 506. 
Sournw Inp1a. Common about Devala in the South-Hast 
Wynaad, at 650-960 m., Beddome. 
Both Beddome in his Icones, and Duthie in the Fl. Brit. India 
have signalized this species as being probably the type of a new 
genus, and so I have no hestitation in describing it as such in 
spite of the poor material, in order to bring the plant into its 
proper place in the Madras Flora. 
908. Osbeckia lineolata, Gamble — [Melastomaceae- 
Osbeckieae]; O. minori, Triana, affinis, foliis majoribus e lip- 
ticis siccitate flavescentibus ad superficiem superiorem lineolis 
et ner- 
setoso-ciliatae, deciduae. ae pe 
obi 
ircl 5 em. longae; filamenta 7 mm. onga. 
mhasliat cola he ee m, Ais superne incrassato. Capsula 
7 mm. longa, parce setosa. 
4.  Nilgiri hills, Gardner; Pulney Hills, 1980- 
2300 ma, Wight (K. D. 1090); near Kodaikanal and Perumal, 
Bourne, 68, 968, 1532; Shembag, Sauliére, 150, 312. 
