Osbeclda.] LX. MELASTOMACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 519 



14. O. aspera, JBlume in Flora, 1831, p. 474 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 or elliptic-acute sparsely hairy on both surfaces or nearly glabrous beneath except 

 on the nerves, calyx-tube strigose or sparingly clothed with pectinate bristle- 

 bearing scales, segments f in. ovate-oblong obtuse ciliate with a few clustered 

 "but scarcely stellate bristles on the top. W. 8f A. Prodr. 323 (excl. syn. 0. 

 glauca Benth.) ; Wight Ic. 377 ; Thwaites Enum. p. 105 (as to var a. and (8. 

 only) ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 74 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 54. 0. Kleinii, Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 309 ; Triana I. c. O. 

 minor, Triana I.e. 55. Melastoma asperum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 145 (omit- 

 ting syn.}. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wight. CEYLON ; at no great elevation, Thwaites. 



A low shrub, woody below ; branches often elongate, adpressedly scabrous. Leaves 

 1-2 in. ; petiole ^-5- in. Corymbs usually 3-6-flowered. Calyx-lobes much longer 

 than broad. Fruit ^ ^ in. broad, campanulate, truncate. Triana founded his new 

 sp. 0. minor on Mr. Thwaites' No. 1569 ; and does not state in what particulars the 

 species differs from 0. aspera, 0. Kleinii and 0. glauca ; but they must be very- 

 minute. 



VAR. 1. typica\ no stellate hairs on the calyx. 



VAR. 2. Kleinii ; several or very few stellate hairs on the calyx-tube, hairs at the 

 summits of calyx-lobes clustered but hardly stellate. 



15. O. glauca, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4073 ; leaves elliptic narrowed or 

 obtuse at either end softly hairy on both surfaces, calyx-tube with scattered 

 small stellate hairs teeth ^ in. obtuse glabrous on the back ciliate with one 

 stellate hair at the summit. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 54. 0. aspera, 

 Bot. Mag. 5085. 



TRINCOMAT.F.K, TBAVANCORE, QUELON are the localities on the examples of Wall. 

 Cat. 4073. 



Small, woody, branching ; branches adpressedly hairy, glaucous upwards. Leaves 

 1-1 in. ; petiole - in. Calyx-lobes much broader than long. Fruit 5^ in. broad, 

 .campanulate, truncate. With larger flowers and more silky hairs than 0. aspera. 



16. O. Walkeri, Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 309; leaves elliptic 

 narrowed at both ends margins not recurved hairy on both surfaces, calyx- 

 tube adpressedly fulvous-hairy teeth narrowly lanceolate or linear uniformly 

 fulvous-hairy without cilia or stellate hairs. Thwaites Enum. p. 105 ; Triana 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 54, excl. var. /3. Bechetii. 



CEYLON; alt. 6000-8000 ft.; Walker, Gardner, Thwaites No. 1571. 



A small shrub ; branches hispid. Leaves 1 in., 3-nerved ; petiole in. Flowers 

 1-3, in terminal clusters. Calyx-tube witl* small clustered substellate hairs. Fruit 

 ^-f in. broad, campanulate, truncate. This species is close to 0. buxifolia, Am. 

 from which it differs by the petioled leaves without recurved margins, and by the 

 adpressed hairs on calyx-tube. But Thwaites' specimen No 2618 has leaves with 

 recurved margins and adpressed hairs on the calyx-tube : and is called 0. buxifolia 

 8. minor by Thwaites, 0. Walkeri . Bechetii by Triana. 



17. O. Wig-htiana, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4060; silkily hairy towards the 

 ends of the branches, leaves 5-7- nerved softly hairy on both surfaces elliptic or 

 oblong usually acute, flowers 1-5 clustered, calyx-tube densely covered with 

 pectinate scales fringed by long bristles, -teeth f in. ovate-oblong obtuse covered 

 with simple or somewhat clustered hairs. W. 8f A. Prodr. 323 ; Wight Ic. 

 998 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 63 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 54. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Southern Mountains. CEYLON, alt. 3000-5000 ft., Thwaites 

 (No. 1570 var. 8.). 



