iOsbeokia.'} lx. MEi/ASTOMAOEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 513 



. Teibe III. Sonerlleae, Seeds straight, oblong or ouneate, often angular, 

 raphe' sometimes excurrent. Qi}ary flattened or depressed at the vertex. 

 ihit capsular. 



Petals 3. Inflorescence scorpioid 10. Sonekha. 



Petals 4. Jlowers nearly sessile ♦ 11. Saroopybahis. 



Petals 4. Flowers in a.long-peduncled head 12. Phillagathis. 



Teibe IV. KledinUIeaB. Seeds straight, cuneate or ohoyate, often angu- 

 Jar. Connective often appendaged near the base. Fruit baccate. 



'Longer stamens hamng two long bristles attached to the base of the connec- 

 tive in front. 



Cymes lateral 13. Mabttmia. 



Panicles terminal 14. Dissooh^ta. 



** Zonffer stamens having the connective at base variously a^endaged but not 

 with two long bristles in front. 



Four vertical plates on the ovary 15. ANPtBOTBtJM. 



*** Stamens equal or nearly so. 



•Connective at base without bristles behind 16. MEDiinii.A. 



Connective at base with bristles behind 17. Pogonanthbea. 



Stjboebek n. Astronleae. Ovary 4^5-celled ; ovules very many on 

 parietal nearly basal placentas. Seeds very many. Anthers short opening by 

 alits. i'VitJi baccate. 



■Calyx-tube smooth. Panicles terminal 18. Asteonia. 



Calyx-tube verrucose. Cymes small 19. Pteenandea. 



Calyx-tube with scales. Flowers solitary or clustered ... 20. Kibessia. 



SuBOKDEE m. nSemecyleae. . Ovary 1-celled ; ovules about 9 on a basal 

 short free central placenta. Stamens equal ; anthers short,, opening by pores 

 or short slite. Beirry 1-seeded. — Leaves usually pinnate-nerved. 



Stamens 8 .' . 21. Memecylon. 



1. OSBECKXA, 



Herbs or shrubs, mostly erect and setose ; branches commonly tetragonous. 

 Leaves opposite or sometimes ternate, entire, subcoriaceous, 3-7-nerved. Flowers 

 terminal, solitary capitate or panicled, purple mauve or white, often bracteate. 

 Cdyx-tvie ovoid, carrying stellate hairs or pectinate scales ; limb 6- or 4-fid, 

 usiMUy stellately hairy (in O. aspera and 0. Mheedii with simple hairs). Petals 

 6-4. Stamens 10 or 8, equal or subequal ; anthers oblong, truncate attenuate or 

 beaked ; connective not produced at the base, slightly swollen or with two 

 tubercles. ■ Ovary inferior, 4^5-celled, more or less adherent to the calyx, setose 

 at, the apex; style long, simple; ovules very numerous on placentas radiating 

 from the axis. Capsule opening by 4^5 pores in its free vertex. Seeds very 

 many, curved through half a circle, covered -with minute elevated points. — Dis- 

 iftiB. An eminently Indian genus ; 29 out of the 32 species being found in 

 India, two in Malaya, one in Australia ; and one Indian species extending also to 

 China and North Australia. 



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