520 LX. MELASTOMACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) \_0sbeckia. 



A branched shrub. Leaves l-3 in. ; petiole -J in. Fruit % in. wide, campa- 

 nulate, truncate. United by Mr. Thwaites with 0. aspera above, from which it differs 

 by the more pectinate-scaly calyx, and hardly by any other character. 



18. O. Leschenaultiana, DC. Prodr. iii. 142; flowers 1-5 clustered 

 with much rufous hair, leaves subsessile ovate obtuse or elliptic acute usually 

 somewhat rounded at the base, calyx-tube densely clothed with stalked stellate 

 rufous hairs teeth \ in. oblong obtuse with clustered bristles. Triana in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxviii. 64. 0. Gardneriana, Wight Ic. 997. 



NILGHIBI MTS., alt. 6000-8000 ft., frequent. 



A branched shrub ; stem usually patently hairy. Leaves 1-1^ in., 3-5-nerved, 

 hairy on both surfaces. Fruit f in. wide, campanulate, truncate. 



19. O. rubicund a, Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 309 ; branches 

 scabrous-pilose, leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong acute 5-nerved hairy on both 

 surfaces petiole - in., flowers 1-5 clustered, calyx-tube densely covered with 

 stalked stellate hairs teeth lanceolate acute covered with simple and clustered 

 bristles. Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 62 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 54. 



CEYLON : Wight, Walker, Gardner. 



A branched shrub. Leaves 1-2 in., usually rounded at the base. Calyx-teeth 

 \ in. Fruit | in. wide, campanulate, truncate. Triana reduces here 0. elliptica, 

 Naud. 1. c. : but Naudin says his 0. elliptica has short triangular calyx-teeth : while 

 0. rubicunda^only exists as a species upon its lanceolate acute calyx-teeth. Thwaites 

 is probably right in referring 0. elliptica Naud. to 0. cupularis var. erythrocephala 

 above. 



20. O. reticulata, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 216 ; branches 

 densely clothed with adpressed hairs, leaves ovate acute petioled densely hairy 

 on both surfaces and also alveolate-reticulate beneath, flowers 1-3 clustered, 

 calyx-tube with large densely clustered bunches of hairs teeth short oblong obtuse 

 densely ciliate scabrous and with a large terminal substellate hair. 0. alveolata, 

 Bedd. Ic. t. 168. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Anamallay Mts., above 6000 ft. alt. ; Col. Beddome. 

 A branched shrub. Leaves 1-4 in., round or subcordate at the base, 5-9-nerved; 

 petiole |-1 in. Fruit | in. broad, campanulate, truncate. 



21. O. IMoonii, Thwaites Enum. p. 105; procumbent, rooting from the 

 nodes, peduncles 1-flowered, calyx-teejh long-lanceolate acute with stellate 

 hairs. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 55. 



CEYLON ; Colombo and Saffragam District ; somewhat rare, Thwaites. 



Stems elongate, roundish, with scattered lax hairs. Leaves 1-3 in., broad- elliptic, 

 acute, 5-nerved, hairy on both surfaces ; petiole -f in. Peduncles ^-1^ in., solitary 

 or few and subumbelled, carrying small round or ovate bracts. Calyx-tube densely 

 clothed with stalked stellate hairs standing at right angles to the surface. Fruit less 

 than 5- in. broad, campanulate or somewhat ovoid, truncate. 



22. O. aspericaulis, Hook. f. ms. ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 

 55 ; stem erect simple scabrous with short hairs ending in a robust much" 

 branched corymb, leaves 6 in. petiole 1| in., fruit ovoid truncate distinctly 10-* 



TENASSERIM or ANDAMANS, Heifer No. 2244. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, rounded at the base, 5-9-nerved, hairy on both sur- 

 faces. Bracts lanceolate, caducous. Calyx-tube with scattered adpressed simple 



