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MELASTOMACEiE. 
OSBECKIA ALVEOLATA. (Bedd .) A very large shrub 10-15 feet high, branchlets terete or sub 4-angled densely 
scabrous with coarse brown hair like scales, leaves ovate to ovato-oblong prominently cordate at the base scarcely acute at the apes, 
very prominently 7-nerved, 3-4 inches long by 1-2 broad, above densely rugose the raised warts each terminating in a long bristle 
like golden hair, beneath quite honey-combed the raised reticulations very hairy, petioles 4-8 lines long, flowers in 3 short terminal 3 
flowered cymes, or the 2 lateral peduncles with solitary flowers, deep purple l|-2 inches across in full expansion, calyx tube densely 
covered on the outside with peltate scales each of which is densely covered with long curved hairs which proceed from very swollen 
bases, deciduous lobes ciliate, hairy along the back and terminating at the apex with a prominent star-like tuft of coarse hairs, petals 5 
slightly ciliate at the margins, anthers yellow the connective 2-auricled at the base, style thickened at the apex, stigma capitate subpel- 
tate, fruit calyx quite truncate, capsule 5 celled. 
This truly magnificent species I have only' met with ou the higher ranges of the Anamallays where it is abundant at the 
outskirts of the sholas at 6-7000 feet elevation, and a mass of bloom in March, no figure could do justice to the beauty of the leaves 
and calyx. 
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Analysis. 
Slightly magnified upper surface of a leaf showing the rugosities each ending in a bristle little hair. 
Under surface of a leaf showing the raised reticulations and deep cavities between. 
A flower bud, petals removed. 
A petal showing the ciliate edge. 
Calyx opened out showing the anthers bent down. 
Outside, inside and side view of one of the deciduous lobes of the calyx. 
Anthers showing the terminal pore and the auricled base of the connective. 
Ovary, style and stigma. 
Front and back view of one of the peltate scales of the calyx tube. 
Ovary cut vertically. 
The same cut transversely- 
PLATE No. CLXVI1I. 
►SoNERILA ROTUNDIFOLIA. (Bedd.) Root tuberous globose, leaves all radical orbicular cordate at the base rounded 
at the apex serrate 5-7 nerved, slightly hairy on the nerves beneath glabrous above, rather firm in texture, purplish beneath, 1-14 
inches or a little more each way, petioles 1-44 inches long slightly hairy, scapes glabrous or slightly hairy 4-8 inches long bracteated 
and 3-5 flowered at the apex, bracts small subulate, flowers pink 6-8 lines in expansion quite glabrous, petals obovate with a small 
mucro at the back. Bedd. Mad. Lit. Journ. 1861. 
This pretty little species is common on rocks (during the monsoou) ou the Anamallays at 4000-6000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CLXIX. 
MYRSINACEiE. 
ArDISIA AMPLEXICAULIS. (Bedd.) A shrub, quite glabrous, branchlets angled, leaves subsessile or sessile and often 
stem clasping with a slightly cordate base, elliptico-lanceolate, of rather thin texture the pinnate veins prominent beneath, both sides fur¬ 
nished with very numerous raised dots near the margin and numerous minute black dots over the surface of the leaf and occasionally 
a few of the raised dots also; 5-6 inches long by 1-1 \ broad, umbels several in a small terminal panicle, very much shorter than the 
leaves, pedicels 4-6 lines long slightly elongating in fruit, flowers scarcely 3 lines in diameter, calyx and corol dotted, the former with 
the segments acute and rather deeply divided, the latter almost rotate with a very short tube, the lobes ovate acute, anthers acute a 
little shorter thau the corol-lobes on short filaments, style slender, drupe globular 4 lines in diameter. 
Tirrihoot hills, Wynad, 3-4000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CLXX. 
CELASTK A CEiE. 
EuONYMUS SERRAT1FOLIUS. (Bedd.) A shrub, quite glabrous, branches terete, leaves scarcely coriaceous more or less 
sharply and prominently serrated from narrow lanceolate to broad lanceolate tapering at the apex into a blunt point, 34-4 inches long by 
