427 
. hairy, under hirsute.on the nerves only: calyx-tube-urceolate, brist+ 
ly.:. segments-5,- deciduous: anthers 10, shortly beaked: ovary 
crowned with bristles: style incurved near the apex : flowers ag~ 
gregated, pinkish. 
Mountains between Tinnevelly and Travancore. Malabar Coast. 
Southern Provinces. Flowering nearly all the ‘year. 
(5) O. aspgra. (Blume). : 4 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 323. 
_ Syn. Melastoma asperum, Linn. Dec. prod: ITI. P 145. 
Engrao. Wight’s Icon. t. 377. 
_ Spec. Cuan. Shrub: branches. obscurely 4-angled, bristly : 
leaves short-petioled, oblong-ovate or, oblong-lanceolate, acute, p- 
nerved, upper side bristly, under hirsute on the nerves, and pubes- 
cent between them: calyx-tube cup-shaped; rigittly pubescent : 
segments 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, deciduous ; appendages consisting 
of a tuft of a few bristles: stamens 10: anthers acuminated: style 
ancurved’ at the apex : ovary crowned with bristles: flowers on short 
pedicels, terminal, somewhat racemose, purplish-red. 
Malabar and Travancore. Bengal. Flowering. nearly. all the 
year. 
(6) ©. Ganpwerrana. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Spicil. I. p. 57. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 997.—Spicil. I. t. 69. 
Spec. Cuar. Erect ramous shrub: young parts clothed with, 
Yong bristly hairs: leaves sessile, ovate, 3-nerved, hairy, om both 
sides : calyx-tube -campanuylate, furnished with numerous dark-red 
bristles; limb 5-cleft: segments linear-lanceolate, obtuse, more 
than twice the length of the appendages :, petals 5, orbicular: sta- 
mens 10; anthers recupved, corrugated. on the inner edge, shortly 
heaked : flowers terminal, capitate, dark- -purplish-red.. 
Neilghesries, flowering in February and March,. 
(7) O. uisprpissiua. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. LY.. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1612. 
Spec. Cuar. Suffruticose, erect : branches 4-sided, very hairy: 
leaves subsessile, oval-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 3-nerved, his- 
pid on both sides: calyx hispid, 4-eleft: lobes ciliated : petals. 4, 
large, spreading: stamens 8: anthers prolonged into a longish beak : 
eorymbs terminal, few-flowered : flowers large, dark-crimson. - 
Mysore. 
; | | (8) O. purcwerta. (Benth.) 
Syn. Melastoma pulohellum, Rowd. ft. fad. LI, p. 40% 
