Barleria.] XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 151 
Mozamb. Dist. Without locality, collected in 1860, Speke g Grant ! 
Also extends to India. 
The branchlet, which is the African material for this species, has no flower, but 
there is a ripe capsule. It is either B. duwifolia or excessively near thereto. The 
small simple shining-brown acicular spines show that it certainly is not near 
B. acanthoides. 
19. B. crassa, (. B. Clarke. Branches closely hairy with erect 
hairs. Leaves up to 1 by 4 in., thick, densely hairy. Posticous calyx- 
segment hairy, slightly toothed; otherwise as B. ramulosa. 
Mozamb. Dist. ? South African Goldfields, Baines ! 
The peculiar 2-fold indumentum of the leaves is exactly as that of B. ramu/osa, 
of whieh this might be a dry-country form. 
20. B. longissima, Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. [1896] 
73. Glandular-villous. Leaves 3 by 4 in., glandular-hairy on both 
faces; interpetiolar spines }? in. long, straight, glandular hairy. 
Posticous sepal 1-1} by }-} in., broad-lanceolate, purple-veined, sub- 
entire, hairy. Corolla blue or white; tube 4 in. long. Capsule 1 in. 
long, 4-seeded, glabrous. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: near Coromma, Riva, 640! 
21. B. blepharoides, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx, 24. Branches 
long-pubescent. Leaves up to 1 by } in. densely hairy on both 
surfaces. Inflorescences unilateral, of several flowers ; bracts and 
bracteoles reduced to simple spines, }-3 in. long, straight, stout. 
osticous sepal up to 1 by % in., ovate, spinous-toothed, finely reticu- 
lated, coloured. Corolla-tube 2 in. long.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyamwezi, Stuhlmann, 496! 
22. B. Marlothii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 262. Small shrub ; 
branches densely canescent with minute simple white hairs, and with 
subsessile yellow glands, many-striate; internodes }-1} in. long. 
Leaves 11 ‘by 1 in., broadly oblong, obtuse, tapering at the base, 
minutely hairy. Racemes unilateral, condensed, several-flowered (in 
Welwitsch’s examples 2-1-flowered); sterile bracts } in. long, spme- 
tipped, recurved, base lanceolate green canescent ; fertile bracts 3 in. 
ong, oblong, falcate, toothed or subentire. Posticous sepal up to 
by 4 in., lanceolate, margin sometimes spine-toothed, sometimes 
With one or no tooth, canescent, and with many subsessile yellow glands. 
Corolla-tube 3 in. long, hardly dilated at the top. Capsule 33 in. 
ong, perfecting 4 seeds. Barleria, sp. nova B. acanthoidi, Vahl, 
affinis, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 270. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 5013! 5024! Chella 
ountains, Johnston ! German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Otyimbingue, Schinz, 
11! Marloth, 1315! 
