146 XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE), [ Barleria. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Arrot Valley, 4300 ft. Schweinfurth & Riva, 1407! 
Selet Valley, 5500 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1666! Abyssinia, Schimper, 682! 
1922! Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 287! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Muoa, Holst, 3218! 
Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, Stuhlmann, 8530! 
4. B. induta, C. B. Clarke. Densely shortly villous or fuscous- 
tomentose. Stems 4—5 ft. high, stout. Leaves 14 by 4 in, elliptic, 
narrowed at both ends, subsessile, thick, when mature glabrous above, 
without cystoliths, densely villous beneath. Spines and inflorescence as 
of B. Prionitis. Posticous sepal } in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
entire, densely villous nearly to the mucronate tip, in fruit rigid, thick, 
recurved. Capsule 3 in. long and upwards, rostrate, 2-seeded ; other- 
wise as B. Prionitis—B. Prionitis, Herb. Linn. partly, not of Linn. Sp. 
Plant. B. Hystrix, 3. oblongifolia, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 239. 8B. 
bispinosa, Hochst. ex Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 239; T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. vii. 27, not of Vahl. B. diacantha, Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 106, from description. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Bogos, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 450! Abyssinia: Adowa, 
Schimper, 208! and without precise locality, Herb. Linneus! Salt! Schimper, 
B. bispinosa, Vahl, is an Arabian plant with pale-purple flowers. B. induta is 
very near B. Prionitis except as to the many hairs permanent on the leaves. 
5. B. trispinosa, Vahl, Symb. i. 46. Inflorescence in terminal 
strobilate short heads, 1-2 in. long ; floral leaves # by } in., ovate from 
a rounded base, imbricate ; otherwise nearly as B. Prionitis—Nees in 
DC, Prod. xi. 238, excluding var. 3, y. B. macracantha, R. Br. in Salt, 
Abyss. Append. 64. B. diacantha, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 238 partly; 
A. Rich.Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 144 partly. B. Prionitis, Eng]. Hochgebirgs!. 
Trop. Afr. 391 partly. Justicia trispinosa, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. 6. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Massowa, Deflers, 1086! Keren, Steudner, 1504! 
Abyssinia: Samen; Jaja, 5000-6000 ft., Schimper, 14! near Adegunna, Schimper, 
1008! Shoa, Petit! and without precise locality, Salt / 
Interpetiolar spines 2 or 3 together, some short, some 1 in. long, The present 
plant is distributed by Schweinfurth and Barbey (specimens collected in Arabia 
Felix) as the true B. trispinosa, Vahl, and doubtless rightly, as Forskal in his 
original description says the flower was fulvous-yellow, 2-lipped, and the spikes 
strobilate. 
6. B. senensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 209. Tnnova- 
tions densely yellow-strigose. Leaves 34 by 1 in., acuminate at eac 
end, when mature glabrate with conspicuous cystoliths on both surfaces 5 
petiole }-} in. long. Spines scarcely ;1; in. long. Heads scarcely 3 in. 
long, subglobose ; bracts closely overlapping, } in. long, spathulate- 
obovate, obtuse, apiculate, yellow-strigose, then glabrate. Posticous 
sepal 4-1 in. long, elliptic, cuspidate. Corolla of C. Prionitis. Filaments 
glabrous.— Lindau in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Rios de Sena, Peters ! 
