Osbeckia.'] LX. MELASTOMACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 521 



hairs and a few compound hairs near the top, teeth long-lanceolate with simple hairs- 

 on the back. vary crowned with many long bristles. Petals in. Fruit | in. 



23. O. octandra, DC. Prodr. iii. 142 ex Triana \ branches and branch- 

 lets woody, leaves oblong to lanceolate short-petioled 3-nerved sparingly sca- 

 brous or quite smooth on the upper surface, flowers scattered or 2-5 shortly 

 pedicelled, calyx-teeth ovate-oblong, fruit scarcely f in. broad obscurely ribbed 

 or smooth sometimes with scattered stellate hairs. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 54 excl. nearly all syn. 0. virgata, W. 8f A. Prodr. 323 ; Thiuaites 

 Enum. p. 105 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. p. 61. O. polycephala, 

 Naud. 1. c. 67. O. Wightiana, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4074. [Of the figures 

 quoted by Triana, Hot. Mag. 2235 and Wight Ic. 998 do not refer to the present 

 plant; Sot. Mag. 4026 has been referred above to O. chinensis; and Wight 

 Ic. 376 may represent our var. major but does not give any idea of the typical 

 O. octandra, DO.] 



SOUTH DECCAK PENINSULA in and near the mountains ; plentiful. CEYLON, up to- 

 3000 ft. alt. ; Thwaites. 



Branches subquadrangular with adpressed hairs, or woody nearly round and gla- 

 brous. Leaves (in the typical 0. octandra) not more than 1 in. ; petiole in. Calyx-tube 

 with scattered stellate hairs, teeth usually ciliate and with one stellate terminal 

 bristle, sometimes perfectly glabrous. This typical woody small-leaved shrub appears 

 very distinct, but even the small-leaved branches carry sometimes large leaves also ; 

 and it thus graduates into 



VAR. major ; leaves larger often 2 in. frequently hairy on the upper surface often 

 whitened beneath, heads flowers and fruit larger than in the type. 0. virgata, Wight 

 Ic. t. 376. This variety is confounded by many authors with 0. cupularis ; but it 

 differs in the perianth being more constantly 5-merous, and in its anthers which are 

 not truncate nor suddenly narrowed into a very short beak, but gradually narrowed 

 upward. It has also been mixed with 0. aspera, but differs by the ovary having 

 much fewer bristles on the top. 



24. O. nutans, Watt. Cat. 4068; leaves narrowly lanceolate 3-nerved 

 glabrous striolate above scabrous on the nerves beneath, flowers in small clus- 

 ters, calyx-tube nearly glabrous with pectinate scales between the bases of the 

 calyx-teeth, calyx-teeth large broad lanceolate glabrous ciliate on margin hairy 

 at the vertex, fruit often nodding. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 54. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA from SIKKIM eastwards, alt. 500-2500 ft., frequent to the 

 upper end of ASSAM ; also on the northern base of the KHASIA MTS. 



A woody branching small shrub. Leaves commmonly 1^ by in. ; petiole in- 

 Flowers mauve-purple, not very large. Fruit | in. broad, campanulate, truncate. 



25. O. Wynaadensis, C. B. Clarke; stems with adpressed short hairs y 

 leaves 5 in. oblong-lanceolar petiole f in., flowers in subterminal corymbs, calyx- 

 tube with scattered flat setigerous scales otherwise glabrous teeth large broad-lan- 

 ceolate glabrous shortly ciliate. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Wight No. 1099 ; Wynaad, alt. 4000 ft.; C. B. Clarice. 



Leaves 5-nerved, scabrous-hairy on both surfaces. Fruit | in. broad, ovoid, trun- 

 cate, the free part of the ovary with a ring of short hairs (joined at their base into a 

 narrow tube) near its top, otherwise glabrous. 



26. O. nepalensis, Hook. Fl. Exot. t. 31 ; leaves 3-4 in. elongate ob- 

 long-lanceolate 5-nerved softly hairy on both surfaces petiole less than in., 

 flowers in small rather close corymbs, calyx-tube with large flat scales fringed 

 with bristles of which 5 prominently alternate with the calyx-teeth, calyx-teeth 

 large broad-lanceolate glabrous ciliate. DC. Prodr. iii. 142 ; Wall. Cat. 4061 - f 



