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OSBECKIA sretiata. 
Woolly-fruited Osbeckia. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Onv. MELASTOMACEA, Br. 
Osbeckia stellata ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, calycis tubo pilis numero- 
sissimis fasciculatis densissime intertextis obsito. 
Osbeckia stellata, oe in Herb. Lamb. (according to Mr Don).—Don, 
in Bot. Reg. t. 6 
Osbeckia crinita, Nai MSS. 
Stem, a foot or a foot and a half high, erect, eh BE cE reddish- 
Sreen, Covered with scattered appressed hairs. Leaves opposite, oblongo- 
lanceolate, Tigid, entire, clothed on all sides with numerous, short, ap- 
yellow. 
deep yellow, very long, curved nearly in the shape of the letter S, fur- 
towed on the top, opening by a single pore at the extremity. Pislid: 
sermen sunk within the tube of the calyx, with its lower part only incor- 
Porated with it, ovate, attenuated, but truncate at the top, hairy. Style 
about as long as the stamens, pale yellow, filiform, curved at the sum- 
mit; Stigma obtuse. 
This species of Osbeckia 1 had occasion to > mention — 
ing it as an inhabitant of our gardens. a ie 
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