eneeiinmh a 
Barleria. | XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 147 
7. B. Smithii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 396. Hairs few, 
simple, rigid, appressed, mainly on the margins of the leaves and nerves 
beneath. Leaves up to 14 by 4-2 in., obovate, obtuse, mucronate. 
Corolla blue (Rendle), total length 1 in. or more, strongly 2-lipped ; 
tube 4 in. long, narrow; anticous segment much shorter than the 
4-lobed posticous segment.—B. Pseudoprionitis, Lindau in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma vi. [1896] 73. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: between Danna Torrent and Karanle River, Riva, 
953! Ah] Mountains, 6300 ft., Hildebrandt, 857! and without precise locality, 
Donaldson Smith ! 
Lindau gives the flowers in B. Pseudoprionitis as reddish. The dried flowers of 
B. Smithii are (at least partly) blue. 
8. B. hererorensis, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 261. Plant 3 ft. 
high, everywhere minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves 1 by 3 in., oblong, 
subacute; petiole 4 in. long. Spikes terminal, loose; floral leaves 
spathulate, bracts (next the calyx) } in. long, linear, recurved, rigid. 
Outer calyx-segments broad-elliptic, entire, 3-5-ribbed, densely yellow- 
glandular. Corolla deep blue, total length 1} in. Capsule } in. long, 
oblong, hoary puberulous, 2-seeded.—B. latiloba, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. 
x. 261, 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland: near Daviep, 1600 ft., 
Marloth, 1460! near Otyimbingue, 2800 ft., Marloth, 1316! 
9. B. eranthemoides, 2. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64. Nearly 
glabrous. Corolla-tube 1 in. long, linear to the top, not slit on one 
side; limb of 5 patent subequal elliptic lobes 4-4 in. long, not at all 
2-lipped; otherwise very like B. Prionitis. — B. hypocrateriformis, 
Hochst. ex T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 28. B. Prionitis, T. 
Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 28 partly. B. Prionitis, var. setosa, 
Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 209; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 107, 243; Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Massowa, Deflers, 1179! Abyssinia: Samen; Jaja, 
5000 ft., Schimper, 111! 2194! and without precise locality, Salt! Schimper, 759! 
1685! Somaliland, James § Thrupp! Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Miss Edith Cole! 
British East Africa : Taita, Hildebrandt, 2388 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Smith ! Portuguese East 
Africa: Goa Island, Peters! British East Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan! Meller! 
The type plant of Salt has the anticous calyx-segment bifid at the top; the Goa 
Plant has the corolla-tube thicker, the anticous calyx-segment bifid at the top; 
uchanan’s example is very like the Goa plant, but has the anticous calyx-segment 
entire, cuspidate, 1-spined. 
_. 10. B. quadrispina, Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma V1. [1896] 
‘ 2. Harsh and dense shrub, 6-8 in. in diam. Stem stout, densely and 
minutely hairy, with many small cystoliths. Leaves up to 1} by } in., 
narrowly obovate, suddenly narrowed, mucronate ; hairs simple, rigid, 
straight, ascending, fuscous or white ; spines $—-1 in. long, very numerous, 
Many compound as though 4-partite 4 in. above the base—1e. barren 
