492 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Osbecfcia. 



Calyx-tube in fruit '15 in. long with 4 short lobes, each with 

 a stellate cluster of bristles at tip, appendages similarly crowned 

 on very short stalks ; leaves elliptic, subacute, up to 2 in. long, 



1 in. broad, drying greenish 18. truncata. 



Calyx-tube in fruit 25 in. long with 4 or 5 triangular lobes, each 

 with a stellate cluster of bristles at tip, appendages long-stalked, 

 stellately bristle-tipped; leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, acute, 

 up to 1*5 in. long by '75 in. broad, drying yellowish... 19. cupularis. 

 Calyx-tube in fruit '25 in. long with triangular ciliolate lobes ; 

 leaves narrowly lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, about '5 in. broad, 

 stiigosely hairy above, shortly hispid beneath 20. gracilis. 



1. OSBECKIA MINOR, Triaiia. 0. aspera, Wt. Ic. t. 377. 



W. Coast, in Travancore (Wight, Horsley). 

 A. small shrub with small whitish-hairy leaves and purple- 

 red flowers. 



2. OSBECKIA LINEOLATA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1918, 241. 



W. Ghats, Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, at high levels, up to 

 6,000 ft. 



A small erect shrub with glaucous branches and leaves 

 drying yellowish-green, the upper surface with large 

 lineoles, flowers purple-red. 



3. OSBECKIA ASPERA, Blume ; F. B. I. ii. 519 in part ; W. & A, 

 323 in part. 



W. Ghats, Courtallum in Tinnevelly Hills (Mitchel). 

 A small undershrub with purple flowers. 



4. OSBECKIA COURTALLENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1918, 242. 



W. Ghats, Courtallum in Tinnevelly (Wight). 

 A small shrub with red-purple flowers. 



5. OSBECKIA KLEINII, W. & A. 323 in note. 0. aspera, BL 

 var. Kleimi, C. B. Clarke in F. B. I. ii. 519. 



W. Coast, in Cochin and Travancore. 



An erect undershrub with purple-red flowers in terminal 



leafy panicles and rather large leaves, sparsely bristly. 



6. OSBECKIA LAWSONI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1918, 242. 



W. Ghats, Murchison in Travancore, at 2,000 ft. (Lawson). 

 A small erect undershrub with purple flowers in short 

 terminal panicles. 



7. OSBECKIA SUBLAEVIS, Cogn. in DC. Monog. vii. 321. 



W. Ghats from Mysore to Nilgiris, on rocks at about 

 7,000 ft. 



