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OSBEGCKIA chinensis. 
Chinese Osheckia. 
 OCTANDRIA “MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. MELASTOME. _ Jussieu gen. 328. Div. IT. 
MELASTOMACER. Brown bot. of Congo. 15. 
OSBECKTA. Cal. dentibus 4-5 deciduis, squamis totidem intermediis 
ciliaribus. Petala 4-5. Anthere rostrate. Caps. 4-5-locularis, tubo 
truncato calycis vestita. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
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chinensis, foliis sessilibus, calycibus glabris. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 300. 
Osbeckia chinensis. Linn. suppl. 215. Osh. it (ed. angl.) 1. 342. t. 2. f. 1. 
2. et vol. 2. 350. Lamarck illustr. t. 283. f.a.b. c. Loureiro cochin. 229. 
_Suffrutex? sesqui-bipedalis, debilis, ramosus, distantér foliosus: rami 
subrubentes, appresse hispidi, 4-goni, axillares, alterni, divisi, patentes. 
Fol. decussato-opposita, subsessilia, lanceolato-oblonga, 3-nervia, sctulis de- 
cumbentibus hispida, infra pallida hirsutioraque, margine levissimé crenu- 
lata, subsesquiuncialia v. breviora latitudine fere % uncie, divaricato-paten- 
tia: petioli subrubentes brevissimi v. subnulli, basi lined prominuld interpetio- 
lari setis elongatis porrectis ciliata per paria utringue connexi. Flores lilacino- 
rubentes, erecti, terminales, contracto-cymosi; cymzx simplices triflore v. com- 
posite multiflore foliis cruciato-quaternis involucrate ; part opposito duplo v. 
ultra minore; pedunculi setis raris hispidi, breves,’ teretes, bi-trichotomi, 
pedicellis 1-floris, trichotomiarum lateralibus eum bracteis 2 oppositis ovato- 
oblongis acutis hispido-ciliatis ad basin. Cal. brevior corolla, virens; tubo 
coriaceo-firmo cupulato-oblongo subglabro infra limbum tuberculis paucis seta 
prafixis hic indé muricato vel nunc uno sub quodque segmentum limbi, per- 
sistente; limbo 5-partito stellato, deciduo, segmentis ¢ basi latd acuminatis, 
ciliatis, brevioribus tubo, herbaceo-membranosis, ciliatis, seté elonyaté pre- 
Jixis cum uné vel et alteré ad dorsum, per lobulos totidem intercalares alter- 
nos bacilliformes duplo breviores seté prefixos deciduos interceptis. Cor. 
 tmbricato-rotata: pet. 4-6 (rarius 6), % uncie v. circitér profunda, oblato- 
rotunda, superné ciliata, tubo summo calycis inserta, unguiculo obsoleto luteo, 
Stam. 8-10, eodem puneto ac petala, quibus equalia, inserta; anthere flave 
introrse, lineari-oblonge, filamento articulatim imposite, ante anthesin ad 
basin germinis usque immerso-infleace, deindé arrecte, rostro continuo cylin- 
drico osculo obliquo patulo forato terminati, ventre corrugato (rugis ex cone 
tractione quasi peristaltica. pro polline grumoso fluido per rostri orificium 
expellendo provenientibus?) Germ. tubo calycino lutens, albicans, subrotun- 
dum, glabrum, scrobiculis totidem quot antheris exculptum, 5-loc., polysper- 
mum, inferné cum calyce per septa scrobiculorum intergerina connexum, su- 
perné 5-gonum angulis compressis a dorso setosis, setis summis rigidis in 
coronam strigosam persistentem circa basin styli confluentibus: stylus corolle 
aqualis, robustus, teres, glaber, pallidus, deciduus; stig. apex obtusus villo- 
siusculus. : 
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Differs from zeylanica by a smooth ribless calyx and 
nearly sessile leaves; besides being a much larger shrublike 
plant, from a foot and a half to two feet high, 
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