422 MELASTOMATACEAE. — OSBECKIA 



Osheckia stellata, ^ De CandoUe, Prodr. III. 142 (1828). 



Osbeckia crinita Bentham apud Wallich, Cat. No. 4066 (nomen nudum) (1829). 



Osheckia stellata Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, XIV. 72 (non D. Don) 



(1850). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XVI. 107 (1878). 

 Osbeckia crinita, ^ yunnanensis Cogniaux in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. 



VII. 324 (1891). — Guillemin in Lecomte, Not. Syst. II. 308 (1913).— 



L6veille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 277 (1914). 

 Osbeckia yunnanensis Franchet in herb, ex Cogniaux in De Candolle, Monog. 



Phaner. VII. 324 (pro synon.) (1891). 

 Melastoma Mairei Leveille in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. XI. 300 (1912). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, grassy mountains, alt. 600- 

 1000 m., August 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 2558). Western Szech'uan: 

 Kiating Fu, grassy hills, alt. 300 m., October 1908 (No. 3260; shrub 

 0.6-1 m. tall, flowers red). Yunnan : Szemao, hills, alt. 1500 m., A. 

 Henry (No. 12458). Kwangtung: Lienehou River, August 13, 1887, 

 C. Ford (Hongkong Herb. No. 1782). 



A small shrub rare in Hupeh but common in the neighborhood of Kiating Fu 

 and in Yunnan in open grass-clad places. We have followed Hemsley in the 

 determination of this plant. 



Wilson's No. 3260 agrees well with specimens from Khasia except that the 

 trabecular veinlets are somewhat more numerous and closer, while No. 2558 differs 

 in the shorter ovate leaves only sparingly setulose beneath and with fewer and less 

 distinct trabecular veinlets. Guillaumin refers all the Chinese plants to 0. crinita, 

 var. yunnanensis Cogniaux. 



