762 lix. melastomacejE. [Osbeckia. 
C. Astronieee. Ovary 4- to 5- celled ; seeds many ; anthers with slits ; trees. 
Panicles terminal ...... 23. Astronia 
Cymes axillary, rarely panicled. 
Flowers blue or white . . . . .24. Pternandra 
D. Memecylese. Trees or shrubs ; ovary 1 -celled ; fruit drupe ; stamens 8. 
Leaves pinnate-nerved . . . . .25. Memecylon 
1 . OSBECKIA, Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually bristly. Leaves sub-coriaceous, often 
sessile 3- to 7-nerved from base. Flowers terminal solitary, capitate 
(or panicled) showy, pink, often involucrate. Calyx-tube ovoid 
or urceolate, scaly or bristly; lobes subulate or lanceolate 4 to 5. 
Petals obovate, 4 to 5. Stamens 8 to 10, all similar. Fruit capsular 
opening by 4 or 5 pores. Species 32, Indian, with 2 or 3 Malaya 
and Australia. 
Herbs erect branched. Stamens 4 or 8. 
Leaves oblong or linear . . . . ( 1 ) 0. ehinensis 
Leaves ovate-oblong . . . . {2) 0. cochinchinensis 
Shrub with short broad coriaceous leaves; stamens 
10. 
Calyx covered with whorls of hairs on short 
pedicels.(3) 0. perakensis 
(1) O. ehinensis Linn. Sp. PL 490; Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 224; 
Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 515. 
Herb, erect branched, wiry, 6 in. to 2 ft. tall. Leaves oblong 
or linear, narrowed at base, hairy, 1*5 to 2 in. long, -2 in. wide. 
Flowers capitate, 1 in. across, mauve. Bracts ovate. Calyx cam- 
panulate, sub-glabrous, teeth lanceolate, ciliate on edge. Stamens 8. 
Fruit ovoid, glabrous or with a few bristles, -2 in. long. Hab. Open 
country, Setul (Haniff). Dislrib. India, Cambodia, Malay islands. 
(2) O. cochinchinensis Cogn. Mon. Phan. l.c. 331. 
A dwarf wiry herb about 6 in. tall. Stems 4-angled. Leaves 
ovate-oblong, blunt 3- to 5-nerved, sparsely bristly, about 1 in. 
long. Flowers 1 or several. Calyx hairy, *25 in. long; lobes 
narrow, triangular, long ciliate. Petals 4. Stamens 4. Hab. 
Heathy country, Setul (Ridley). Dislrib. Cochin-China. * 
(3) O. perakensis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 79, p. 66. 
Shrub about 8 ft. tall, branching. Young parts, petioles, upper 
surface and nerves of leaves beneath covered thickly with short, 
stiff bristles. Leaves coriaceous elliptic-ovate obtuse, base round, 
1-25 in. long, 75 in. wide; petioles -15 in. long. Flowers 3 to 5 
in a head, sessile with a few bracts at base, in fruit pedicelled; 
pedicel -i in. long. Calyx ovoid, densely covered with simple 
bristles and whorls of bristles on short stalks; lobes long narrow, 
acuminate. Petals 1 in. long, obovate, deep rose pink. Stamens 
10. Style stout. Capsule covered with bristles as in flower, 
•4 in. long, -3 in. through. Hab. Mountains local. Perak, Gunong 
Hijau on Thaiping Hills (Mrs. Bland; J. W. Anderson). 
