152 XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). [ Barleria. 
23. B. acanthoides, Vahl, Symbd. i. 47. Harsh prickly branched 
undershrub; branches densely canescent. Leaves 1-2 in. long, oblong- 
elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, hairy, narrowed at the base, petiole Q—I in. 
long; interpetiolar spines simple 2-4 together, or compound. Racemes 
1-8-flowered, condensed, unilateral, scorpioid ; bracts appearing as flat- 
tened toothed more or less leaf-like or pinnatifid spines. Posticous 
sepal 2 by 4 in., ovate, veined, sparsely hairy, entire or ciliate, hardly 
toothed; lateral sepals less than 4 as long, linear-oblong. Corolla 
white; tube often 3 in. long and upwards, cylindric, funnel-shaped 
only just at the top; lobes } in. long. Capsule $ in. long, 4-seeded.— 
Nees in DO. Prod. xi. 240; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 145 ; T. Anders. 
in Journ. Linn Soe, vii. 27 in small part; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 105, 242, exclud. syn. R. Br.; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 484; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 524; Lindau in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 314, in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. 
C. 369, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. [1896]71. Wahabia longiflora, 
Fenzl ex Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 105. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Coast-land, 3000-4000 ft., Bent! Suakin, Schweinfurth, 
276! Dulac Archipelago, Steudner, 1507! Kordofan, Kotschy, 58! 73! Pfund, 221! 
318! Dartur, Pfund, 425! 426! 489! Eritrea: near Mount Yangous, 1100 ft. 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 599! Habab, 3000 ft., Hildebrandt, 451! Massowa, Lord! 
Abyssinia: Gageros, 3500-5000 ft., Schimper, 128! Tacazze River, Schimper, 1856! 
Somaliland: Ogaden, Robecchi, 241! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa, Fischer, 183! 
24. B. Kirkii, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 30. Branch 
stout, glabrous, white ; branchlets densely hairy with spreading clustered 
almost stellate hairs and with numerous gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 
4-1 by }+4 in., elliptic, triangularly narrowed at both ends, densely 
tomentose with white stellate hairs (more or less disappearing in age) ana 
with few gland-tipped hairs, also with simple long 1-celled tawny acicular 
hairs, especially on the nerves; petiole 0-1, in. long. Racemes 2-1- 
flowered ; bracts (sterile and fertile) 1-1 in. long, spines apparently 
subulate, simple, but minutely toothed, hairy. Posticous and anticous 
calyx-segments subequal, } by 4 in., oblong, spine-toothed, becoming 
scarious reticulate-veined before the fruit is ripe. Style } in. long. 
Capsule 4 in. long, 4-seeded. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Kaurabassa Rapids, 30 miles above 
Tete, Kirk! 
This is not the B. Kirkii of authors, who understand thereby the next species, 
B. spinulosa, Klotzsch. " 
25. B. spinulosa, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 208. Branches 
with some spreading clustered hairs and many gland-tipped hairs, hardly 
glabrescent in age. Leaves up to 34 by 1} in, elliptic, narrowed at 
both ends, stellately tomentose when young, becoming more Or less 
glabrate when mature, and then showing no cystoliths under a micro- 
scope; gland-tipped hairs few, simple straight tawny hairs maby ; 
petiole ;4,-} in. long. Racemes 1—4-flowered (in Buchanan, 1028, stout, 
