. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 834 LII. MELAST0MACEJ5 [ Osheckia prolonged beyond it, outside usually clothed witli liairs or scales, segments deciduous. Stamens 8 or 10, equal, anthers large, connective not produced at base. Ovary half-inferior, 4- or 5-celled, bristly at the apex, ovules oo on placentas radiating from the axis. Capsule enclosed in calyx-tube and partially adnate to it, the free apex 4-5 valved, seeds numerous, kidney-shaped. Species 30-40, nearly all India
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 834 LII. MELAST0MACEJ5 [ Osheckia prolonged beyond it, outside usually clothed witli liairs or scales, segments deciduous. Stamens 8 or 10, equal, anthers large, connective not produced at base. Ovary half-inferior, 4- or 5-celled, bristly at the apex, ovules oo on placentas radiating from the axis. Capsule enclosed in calyx-tube and partially adnate to it, the free apex 4-5 valved, seeds numerous, kidney-shaped. Species 30-40, nearly all Indian. Only a few of the larger and more common kinds are mentioned here. 1. 0. rostrata, Don. Siibhimalayan tract, from Nepal eastwards. Assam, Khasi hills. East Bengal. Burma. Tonkin. A tall shrub, stem erect, undivided, quadrangular, 1. often in whorls of 3, blade 3-8, pet. J-J in. Cymes compound, spreading, calyx densely stellate-liair3^, petals IJ in. long, free portion of fruiting calyx as long as and narrower than fruit. 2. 0. crinita, Benth. Sikkim, 4-8,000 ft. Khasi hills. Muleyit, Tenasserim 7,000 ft. A much branched slirub, clotlied with long spreading hairs, ii. purple or pure white, calyx densely clothed with stellate hairs, petals J in. long, free portion of fruiting calyx as long as and narrower than fr. 8. 0. stellata, Wall.; Oollett Simla Fl. 190, fig. 56. Outer Himalaya, from the Sutlej eastwards, in Sikkim to 6,000 ft. Naga hills at 5,000 ft. OJothed with appressed rigid hairs, fl. purple in compact terminal clusters, calyx densely covered with stellate hairs, petals 1 in. long, free portion of fruiting calyx much shorter than fr. 4. 0. nepalensis, Hook. Subhimalayan tract and outer hills, ascending to 5,000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. Assam, Khasi hills. Hills east of Bhamo at 4,000 ft. Yunnan. Branches sharply quadrangular, often narrowly winged, young shoots with stiff appressed hairs, 1. nearly sessile, oblong lanceolate, softly hairy on both surfaces, fl. pur
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