29 Dl. MELASTOMACE:F. 
Inflorescence axillary. (4) 
(£1) Anthers 4, unequal, connectives not appendieulate. ........ Dlastus, 4 
Anther 4, unequal, larger ones 2-lobed at the apex. ........ Dredia. |. 
1l Osbeckia Li. 
Dichotomous Key to the Forimosan Species. 
Flowers congested at the apex of the stem and usually afforded with a 
whirl of leafy bracts.... O. chinensis. 
Flowers shortly pedieelled, without any whirl of leafy braets....O0. seaberrima. 
Osbeckia chinensis LiNN.: Marsuw. et Havara Enum., P]. Formos. p. 145. 
Har. "Taito, Suibi, Gilan, Holisha, Senton. 
Disrnib. Japan, Loo-choo, Hongkong, China, India, Malaya, Australia. 
Osbeckia scaberrima Hav«ra Materials for à. Flora of Formosa, p. 115. 
Dranches —strigose, cinerascent, straight,  terete, slender, hairs  strigose, 
adpressed, strigoso-barbate at the apex of the branchlets. ^ Leaves opposite, 
elongato-oblong, or lanceolate-ovate, 4 cm.long, 13 mm. broad, obtusely acute 
at the apex, rounded or acute at the base, quite entire, 5-nerved, glabrous 
above only on the costa, otherwise adpressingly strigose, hairs regularly ar- 
ranged on areas between the nerves, but beset with stronger longer hairs 
(lmm.long) on marginal areoles,  adpressedly  ciliate on the margin, 
beneath pallid, sparingly slightly strigose, but much more strigose on nerves, 
petioles 4 mm. long, strigose. Flowers cymose, cymes 3-5-flowered, 2 cm. long. 
Calyx-tube subglobose, 6 mm.loug, strieose outside, lobes ovately trinngular 
acuminate, 51inm.long, 21! mm. broad, strigose on the middle, otherwise 
glabrous, margin strigoso-ciliate, glabrous inside, long aristate between the 
lobes, aristas very strong, tumid at the base. — Petals rounded, margin ciliolate. 
Siunens nearly 15, inserted on the throat of the calyx, 6 mm.long, fila- 
ments slightly  complanate, 3; mm.long, anthers linear, 21 mm.long, 
imm. broad, one-pored at the apex, eonneetives produced at the base, 
artieulated with filuments. Ovary half-inferior, 5-celled, hirsute at the apex, 
style simple, 6 mm. long, truneate and stigmatie at the apex. 
Osbeckia. aspera Havxra. Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 97 (non Bruwz). 
