516 Lx. MBXiASTOMACKiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Osheckia. 



have beeii imported from China where 0. chinensis is common, 0. octandra unknown. 

 Triana appears to have rejected the figure because it shows 5 petals ; the aocompany- 

 iag text states the calyx to be 4-5-fid. Now there are several instances of normally 

 4-fid Osbeekias having some or many 5-fid flowers ; but there is no recorded^ instance 

 of a normally 5-fid Osbeckia producing 4-fid flowers. The Bot. Beg. t. 842 is an in- 

 ferior figure, but from similar reasoning is probably 0. chinensis also. 



6. O. capitata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4072 ; leaves ovate acute from a 

 broad or cordate base subsessile, flowera capitate, calyx-segments lanceolate 

 rounded on the back ciliate. yaud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 68 ; Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 63. O. glauea, Naud. I. c. OsbecHoidea, Gfrif. Ic. 639. 



East Bhotan, Tassangsee, alt. 4S0O ft. ; ex Griffith Joum. Kkasia Mts., alt. 

 4000-5000 ft. ; plentiful. 



A perennial herb 8-20 in., branched from the base ; branches tetragonous, with 

 adpressed bristles. Leaves 1 in., hairy on both surfaces, 3-9-nerved, nerves deeply 

 sunk on the upper surface in the dried specimens. Bracts ovate, acute, hairy on the 

 back. Calyx-tube sometimes densely covered with clustered bristles, often with pec- 

 tinate bristle-bearing scales at the apex only, sometimes even when young altogether 

 glabrous. Petals ^ in., mauve. Anthers with a beak more than half their own 

 length. Bristles on the apex of the ovary about 16. Fruit ovoid, l in. wide, often 

 glabrous, sometimes more or less bristle-bearing ; neck short, calyx-limb never per- 

 sistent. 



7. O. zejrlanlca, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 800; leaves oblong or elliptic nar- 

 rowed at both ends, petiole 0-^ in., flowers capitate, calyx-tube with spreading 

 stellately hairy scales persistent on the fruit, Pluh. t. 173, f. 4 ; Soxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 223 ; Wall. Cat. 4069 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 322 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 519 ; Thwaites Enum. p. 104 ; Triana in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxviii. 53. O. seii- 

 alis, Nimd. in Arm. So. Nat. ser. 8. xiv. 67. 0. debilis, Naud. I. o. 65. 



Tropical Dbocan Peninsuia, Wight No. 1143; Bababoodun Hills, Malabar; 

 Law. Cbti,on; 2%waites. 



Erect, annual, 3-15 in. ; branches ascending, tetragonous, with adpressed bristles 

 or nearly glabrous. Leaves f-lj in., hairy on both surfaces. Bracts very narrow. 

 Calyx-segments keeled on their backs, often setose, ciliate on the margin, with stellate 

 prominently-spreading bristles at their tips. Petals f in., purple-mauve. Anthers 

 with a beak more than half their own length. Bristles on the apex of the ova/ry about 

 16. Fruit ^-i in. broad, ovoid-oblong, esdyx-limb deciduous. 



Vae. Hdferi ; neck of fruit more produced upwards with 8 ribs, pectinate scales 

 on the lower half of the fruit placed in three whorls encircling it horizontally. — ^Te- 

 nasserim and Andamans, Heifer. Wallich, No. 4069 partly. — 0. zeylanica is united 

 with 0. chinensis Linn, by Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 74. 



Sect. III. Ceramicalyx. Shrubs or stout herbs. Perianth normally 

 4-merous. Calyx campanulate produced in fruit into a long or short neck or 

 altogether truncate. Anthers large, produced into a very long beai. 



8. O. bispldissima, Wight Ic. t. 1612; stems with reflexed strong 

 bristles ^-f in., bracts to the pedicels round manjt extra ones without pedicels, 

 calyx-segments oblong obtuse glabrous on the back strongly ciliate. Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 53. 



Mysoee ; Wostara, Cleghorn. Deccan Peninsula; Munda Eani, Wight No. 1100. 



Suffruticose, erect ; branches stout, tetragonal. Leaves 4-6 in., lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed at both ends, with strong bristles scattered on both surfaces or in one specimen 

 nearly glabrous, nerves 3 strong and 2-4 faint ; petiole ^— f in. Corymhs about 5- 

 flowered; flowers dark crimson (Wight). Calyx-tube with scattered peniciUate 



