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OSBECKIA stellata. 
Nepal Osheckia. 
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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MELASTOMACER. Jussieu gen. 328. Brown bot. of Congo. 
15. Div. IT, Germen inferum. 
OSBECKIA, Supra vol. 7. fol. 542. 
O. stellata, foliis lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis 5-nerviis ramisque hispidis, 
calyce urceolato oblongo muricibus radiato-setosis uanlexe hirsuto: sta- 
minibus adscendentibus, antheris flexuosis filamento ongioribus. Don 
MSS. = 
Osbeckia stellata. Hamilton in herb. Lambertiano. ; 
Frutex erectus, bipedalis v. ultra, setuloso-hispidus: rami 4-goni, 
% ra oppo- 
sitt rarius alterni, superne rubentes. Fol. opposita, patentissima, 2-6-unci- 
alia latitudine triplo feré minore, virentia, hispida: petiolus rubescens, plu- 
ries brevior. Flores lilacino-rubentes, speciost diametro subbiunci 
nales v. rarits axillares, solitarii geminative, sepé subglomerato-approximati, 
in pedicello brevi robusto 4-gono subsessiles. Cal. urceolato-oblongus, viridi- 
pallens, uncialis (estivans bracteis late ovatis membranaceis fuscis ciliatis 
caducis subtensus ), limbi decidut 4-partiti segmenta stellato-patentia, recta, 
_ lanceolato-linearia penicillis setosis laxits hirsuta, murice radiatd terminata, 
pluribusque similibus in sink quoque intercalaribus. 
sima, petalis obcordato-rotunda, ciliata, venosa. Stam. 8, equalia, inclusa, ar- 
cuato-assurgentia, laxits fasciculata, lutea, glabra: anth. filamento equales 
v. longiores, lineari-rostrate, sigmoideo-curvate, rostro longo terminate, a 
bast declivi subcordato-acuminatd filamento absque stipite intermedio affixe. 
Stylus senst staminum contrario inclinatus, superne curvatus: stig. punctum 
terminale pruinosum, virens. Germ. calyce reconditum, subrotundo-ovatum, 
rostro setoso terminatum. Caps. sicca, 4-locularis, calyce vestita; recepta- 
cula 4, magne, axi media cut longitudinaliter adnata duplo breviora: sem, 
numerosa, scabra. Don MSS. 
ali, termi- 
oo 
A handsome-flowered species just introduced into our 
hothouses from the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. 
Native of 
Nepal, where it was observed by Dr. F. Hamilton in 1802, 
near Narainhetty. In Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium we find 
numerous samples collected by Doctors Wallich and F. Ha- 
milton in the places of their spontaneous growth. 
’ Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s 
Road, Chelsea; where it is cultivated in the hothouse. 
An upright shrub two feet high or more, bristly furred : 
branches 4-cornered, opposite, seldom alternate, reddening 
Cor. 4-petala, patentis- : 
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