Osbeckia."] LX. MELASTOMACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 515 



8. O. parvifolia, Arn. in Hook. Comp. Sot. May. ii. 308 ; stems gla- 

 brous or with scattered small hairs, flowers few pedicelled with lanceolate bracts 

 - in. but not with large floral leaves, fruit f in. broad ovoid obscurely ribbed, 

 Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 58 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 53. O. 

 Leschenaultiana, Thwaites JEnum. p. 104, partly. 0. zeylanica, Sot. Reg. t. 565 t 



CEYLON, Walker No. 332. 



Small, woody, procumbent, with the habit of Thyme. Leaves |~f in., ovate-sub- 

 acute, nearly sessile, shortly setose on both surfaces, drying black. Calyx-tube and 

 teeth with stalked stellate rufous hairs ; teeth suberect, subpersistent. Mr. Thwaites 

 treats this also as a var. of 0. cupularis, and it has all the appearance of being an 

 alpine form of that plant. 



4. O. Rheedii, Thwaites Enum. p. 104; stiffly shrubby, scabrous, leaves 

 rigid 3-nerved harshly scabrous on both surfaces or glabrous above, flowers 1-4 

 clustered, calyx-tube with adpressed simple hairs, teeth long-lanceolate with 

 erect simple hairs. 



CEYLON ; Wight, Walker, Thwaites. 



Small, woody, much branched. Leaves 1 in., elliptic or oblong, narrowed at both 

 ends ; petiole \ in. Petals f in., pale purple. Fruit f-j in. broad, ovoid, truncate. 

 Mr. Thwaites states the flowers 4-fid, as they are in all the Kew examples ; Triana 

 puts the species in his section Asterostoma with 5-fid flowers without explanation. 

 The plant differs from Asterostoma in the smaller flowers and (what is of more 

 importance) in the anthers which are truncate at top and altogether those of section 

 Amblyanthera. 



SECT. II. Crenuinae. Flowers normally 4-fid, not large. Calyx campanu- 

 late, not produced or produced into a short neck in the fruit. Anthers beaked. 



5. O. chinensis, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 224 ; leaves broadly oblong or 

 linear suddenly narrowed at the base, flowers capitate, fruiting calyx-tube with 

 few (or none) adpressed pectinate scales soon smooth shining. Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 

 228 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 141 ; Sot. Mag. t. 4026 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 

 53. O. angustifolia, Don Prodr. 221 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 142 ; Wall. Cat. 4067 ; PL 

 As. Rar. t. 251 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 69. 0. japonica, Naud. 

 1. c. 70. O. glabrata, Wall. Cat. 4071. 0. myrtifolia, Slume Mus. Sot. i. 61. 



0. linearis, Slume Mus. Sot. i. 51, ivithfig. ; Wall. Cat. 4969, partly ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 519 ; Naud. 1. c. 70 and xiii. t. 7, fig. 4. O. zeylanica, Naud.. 



1. c. 71. 0. decora, Wall. Cat. 4070. Tristemma angustifolium, Slume Sijd. 

 1079 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 144. 



HIMALAYA TERAI from KUMAON to BHOTAN, up to 4000 ft. alt. Abundant in 

 NORTH and EAST BENGAL including ASSAM and KHASIA and thence to SINGAPORE. Also 

 in CHOTA NAGPORE, alt 2000-4000 ft. DISTBIB. Through China and Malaya to Japan 

 and North Australia. 



Stems 2 ft., branches descending, tetragonous, with adpressed hairs. Leaves com- 

 monly 2 in., narrow-oblong, sometimes 6 in., long-linear, in the Parasnath variety ellip- 

 tic-oblong from a subcordate base, acute, 3-5-nerved, hairy on both surfaces ; petiole 

 less than ^ in. Bracts ovate, on the back glabrpus or with a few scattered hairs. 

 Calyx-teeth lanceolate, glabrous, not keeled on the back, ciliate on the margin ; hairs 

 at their tips not spreading stellate. Petals ^ in., mauve. Anthers with a beak about 

 half their own length. Bristles on the apex of the ovary about 16. Fruit in. wide 

 (or much larger in the Parasnath variety), ovoid, with a short neck, often glabrous, 

 sometimes with few or several bristles, calyx- limb never persistent; in the Pegu ex- 

 amples the neck is much prolonged widened at the top. The figure Sot. Mag. t. 4026 

 rejected by Bentham and Triana, admitted by Naudin, is the true plant: the anther 

 is drawn too long-beaked for 0. octandra to which Triana refers it, and the accom- 

 panying text states the anthers to be "longish beaked"; also the plant is stated to 



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