'QsheeUa.'] lx. melastomace^. (0. B. Clarke.) 519 



14. O. aspera, JBlwme in J'fora, 1831, p. 474; leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 or elliptic-acute sparsely hairy on both surfeces or nearly glabrous beneath except 

 on the nerves, calyx-tube strigose or spariiMly clothed with pectinate bristle- 

 bearing scales, segments | in. ovate-oblong o'btuse ciliate with a few clustered 

 but scarcely stellate bristles on the top. W. ^ A. Prodr. 323 (excl. syn. O. 

 glauca Smth.) ; Wight Ic. 377 ; Thwaites Enum. p. 106 (os to var a. and /3. 

 miy) ; Naud. in Ann. So. Nca. ser. 3. xiv. 74 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soe. 

 ixviii. 54. 0. Kleinii, Am. in Hook. Comp. Sot. Mag. ii. 809 ; Triana I. e. O. 

 minor, Triana I. c. 66. Melastoma aspermn, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 145 (omit- 

 ting ayn.). 



Seccan Peninsttla ; Wight. , Ceyioh ; at no great elevation, Thwaites. 



A low shrub, ■woody below ; branches often elongate, adpressedly scabrous. Leaves 

 1-2 in. ; petiole J-^ in. Corymbs usually 3-6-flowered. Cah/x-lobes much longer 

 than broad. FrvM |-^ m. broad, campanulate, truncate. — Triana founded his new 

 «p. 0. minor on Mr. Thwaites' No. 1569 ; and does not state in what particulars the 

 species differs from 0. aspera, 0. Klemii and 0. glauca ; but they must be very 

 miuute. 



Vae. 1. typioa; no stellate hairs on the calyx. 



Vae. 2. Klemii ; several or very few stellate hairs on the calyx-tube, hairs at the 

 summits of calyx-lobes clustered but hardly stellate. 



15. O. grlauca, Bmth. in Wall. Cat. 4073 ; leaves elliptic narrowed or 

 obtuse at either end softly hairy on both surfaces, calyx-tube with scattered 

 small stellate hairs teeth ^ in. obtuse glabrous on the back ciliate with one 

 stellate hair at the summit. Triana in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxviii. 54. O. aspera, 

 Bot. Mag. 6086. 



Trincoiiai;eb, Travancobe, Qttiloh are the localities on the examples of Wall. 

 Cat. 4073. 



Small, woody, branching ; branches adpressedly hairy, glaucous upwards. Leaves 

 .1-1 i in. ; petiole ^-| in. CaJyx-lohes much broader than long. Fruit \-^ in. broad, 

 *ampanulate, truncate. — With larger flowers and more silky hairs than 0. aspera. 



16. O. Walkerl, Am. in Booh. Comp. Bat. Mag. ii. 309; leaves elliptic 

 narrowed at both ends margins not recurved hairy on both surfaces, calyx- 

 iube adpressedly fulvous-hairy teeth narrowly lanceolate or linear uniformly 

 fulvous-hairy without cilia or stellate hairs. Thwaites Enum. p. 106 ; Triana 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 54, excl. var. (3. Bechetii. 



Cetlon; alt. 6000-8000 ft.; Walker, Gardner, Thwaites No. 1571. 



A small shrub ; branches hispid. Leaves 1 in., S-nerved ; petiole ^ in. Flowers 

 1-3, in terminal clusters. Calyx-tube with small clustered substellate hairs. Fruit 

 5-| in. broad, campanulate, truncate. — This species is close to 0. buxifoUa, Am. 

 ftom which it differs by the petioled leaves without recurved margins, and by the 

 adpressed hairs on calyx-tube. Eut Thwaites' specimen No 2618 has leaves with 

 reom-ved margins and adpressed hairs on the calyx-tube : and is called 0. huxifoUa 

 fi. minor by Thwaites, 0. Walkeri 0. Bechetii by Triana. 



17. O. Wigrbtiana, Bmth. in Wall. Cat. 4060 ; silHly hairy towards the 

 «nds of the branches, leaves 6-7- nerved softly hairy on both surfaces elliptic or 

 oblong usually acute, flowers 1-5 clustered, calyx-tube densely covered with 

 pectinate scales fringed by long bristles, teetii | in. ovate-oblong obtuse covered 

 with simple or somewhat clustered hairs. W. 8f A. Prodr. 323 ; Wight Lc. 

 998 ; Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3. xiv. 63 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 64. 



Decoan PfiNiNSiJiiA, Southern Mountains. Ceylon, alt. 3000-5000 ft., Thwaites 

 (No, 1670 var. S.). 



