428 
“Spec. Cuan. Shrub: leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, -etitife, 
bristly on the margins and nerves: bracts cordate, bristle-ciliate : 
- stamens 8: panicles terminal. 
Chittagong. Khasia mountains. 
(9) O. Nepautensis. (Hook.) 
Ident. YDon’s Mill. II. p. 760. 
Syn. O. speciosa, D. Don. fl. Nep. p. 222. 
Engrav. Hook. Exot. fl. t. 31, ae 
Spec. Cuar. Suffruticose: branches somewhat 4-sided, bristly : 
_ leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, hairy, 5-nerved: calyx scaly : ‘seg- 
ments 5, deciduous: anthers 10, somewhat falcate: petals 5, ob- 
ovate: flowers fascicled, violet. 
Khasia mountains. 
(10): O. MURALIS. (Naudia) 
Tdent, Walp. Annal. IL. p. 575.—Naudin. Aonal. XIV. p. 58. 
Spec. Cuan. Herbaceous, erect, slender, usually very small: 
stem somewhat quadrangular, hirsute at the angles: leaves petioféd; 
ovate, acute, very slightly serrulated, 3-nerved, covered with rough- 
ish villi: flowers tctramerous, somewhat aggregated at the apex of 
the stem, purple. — 
Mangalore. 
(11) O. BRACHYSTEMON. (Naudin.) 
Zdent. Naudin. Annal. XIV. p. 57.—Walp. Annal. TI. p. 576. 
Srec. Cuar. Herbaceous, erect; stem and branches somewhat 
4-sided, bristly: leaves short-petioled, broad-ovate, acute, quite 
entire or very slightly ciliate-serrulate, 5-nerved, hirsutely villods 
on both sides: flowers tetramerous at the ends of the'stem and 
branches, 3-5 or more, glomerate, sessile: anthers short, ovoid, 
with 2 pores: connectivum below the cells scarcely any. 
Neilgherries. 
(12) O. conrertiFtora. (Naudin.) 
Ident. Naudin, Annal. XIV. p. 59.—Walp. Annal. II. p. 576. 
Spec. Cyar. Suffruticose, erect, branched: stems many from 
the same root and with the branches somewhat 4-sided, bristly-vil- 
_Jous: leaves very short-petioled, sometimes somewhat lanceolate, 
acute, quite entire, 3-5-nerved, bristly on both sides: flowers pén- 
tamerous, collected at the ends of the branchlets, somewhat numé- 
rous, pedicelled, capitate: calycine-teeth with fascicled bristles 
shorter than the hairy tube, covered with stellate bristles at the 
apex : anthers oblong, with one pore, obtuse; connectivum below 
