520 Lx. MELASTOMACEJi. (C. B. Clarke.) \^Osbechicu 



A branched shrub. Leaves 1 J-3J in. ; petiole ^i in. Fruit J in. -wide, campa- 

 nnlate, truncate. — United by Mr. Thwaites with 0. aspera above, from which it differs 

 by the more pectinate-scaly calyx, and hardly by any other character. 



18. O. lesclxeiiaultiana, DC. JVorfr. iii. 142 ; flowers 1-5 clustered 

 with, much rufous hair, leaves subsessile ovate obtuse or elliptic acute usually 

 somewhat rounded at the base, calyx-tube densely clothed with stalked stellate 

 rufous hairs teeth ^ in. oblong obtuse with clustered bristles. Triana in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxviii. 64. O. Gardneriana, WigM Ic. 997. 



NrLGHiEi Mrs., alt. 6000-8000 ft., frequent. 



A branched shrub ; stem usually patently hairj. Leaves 1-lJ in,, 3-5-nerved, 

 haiiy on both surfaces. Fruit i in. wide, campanulate, truncate. 



19. O. rublcunda, A911. in Hook. Cmnp. Bot. Mag. ii. 309 ; branches 

 scabrous-pUose, leaves eUipfcic or elliptic-oblong acute 6-nerved hairy on both, 

 surfaces petiole ^— J in., flowers 1-5 clustered, calyx-tube densely covered with 

 stalked stellate hairs teeth lanceolate acute covered with simple and clustered 

 bristles. Navd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. set: 3. xiv. 62 ; Triana in Trans. lAnn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 54. 



Cetion : Wight, Walker, Gardner. 



A branched shrub. Leaves 1-2 in., usually rounded at the base. CaZyx-teeth 

 \ in. Fniit 1 in. lyide, campanulate, truncate. — Triana reduces here O. dliptica, 

 Naud. 1. c. : but Naudin says his 0. dliptica has short triangular calyx-teeth: while 

 0. ruMcnmda only exists as a species upon its lanceolate acute calyx-teeth. Thwaites- 

 is probably right in referring O. elUptica Naud. to 0. cupviaris var. erythrocephala 

 above. 



20. .0. reticulata, Bedd. in Trans. Idnn. Soc. xxv. 216; branches 

 densely clothed with adpressed hairs, leaves ovate acute petioled densely hairy 

 on both surfiices and also alveolate-reticulate beneath, flowers 1-3 clustered^ 

 calyx-tube with large densely clustered bunches of hairs teeth short oblong obtuse 

 densely ciliate scabrous and with a large terminal substeUate hair. O. alveolata, 

 Bedd. Ic. t. 168. 



Deccak Penotsuia ; AnamaUay Mts., above 6000 ft. alt. ; Col. SeddoTne. 

 A branched shrub. Leaves 1-4 in., round or subcordate at the base, 5-9-nerved; 

 petiole |-1 in. Fruit i in. broad, campanuljfte, truncate. 



21. O. ItKoonil, Thwaites Enum. p. 105; procumbent, rooting fi:om the 

 nodes, peduncles . 1-flowered, calyx-teeth long-lanceolate acute with stellate 

 hairs. Triana in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxviii. 65. 



Ceyion ; Colombo and Saf&agam District ; somewhat rare, Thwaites. 



Stems elongate, roundish, witi scattered lax hairs. Leaves 1-3 in., broad-eUiptic, 

 acute, 5-nerved, hairy on both surfaces ; petiole |-| in. Peduncles ^1^ in., solitary 

 or few and subumbelled, carrying small round or ovate bracts. Calyx-tube densely 

 clothed with stalked stellate hairs standing at right angles to the surface. Fruii less 

 than ^ in. broad, campanulate or somewhat ovoid, truncate. 



22. O. asperlcaulls, Eooh. f. ms. ; Triana in Trans. linn. Soc. xxviii. 

 55 ; stem erect simple scabrous vrith short hairs ending in a robust much- 

 branched corymb, leaves 6 in. petiole 1| in., fruit ovoid truncate distinctiy 10- 

 angled. 



Tenasseeim or Andamans, Eelferr No. 2244. 



Leaves eUiptic-lanceolate, rounded at the base, S-9-nerved, hairy on both sur- 

 faces. Bracts lanceolate, caducous. Calyx-tiibe with scattered adpressed simplsi 



