Barleria.| XCVIII, ACANTHACE (CLARKE). * 158 
8-flowered) ; bracts (sterile and fertile) 12 in. long, linear or lanceolate, 
green, spine-toothed (in Buchanan, 1028, longer, stouter). Posticous 
and anticous calyx-segments subequal, 2 by 4 in., ovate, spine-toothed, 
reticulately veined (but sometimes, B. squarrosa, Klotzsch, scarcely 
} in. wide, oblong). Corolla pale purple-blue; tube 2 in. long, cylindric 
to the top; lobes }-} in. long. Capsule } in. long, 4-seeded.—Lindau 
in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 369. B. squarrosa, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb. 207; Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
Mozamb, Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Kerimba Islands, Peters ! Lower 
Zambesi; below Shigogo, Kirk! between Tete and Lupata, Kirk ! Zambesi, Kirk ! 
Tete, Peters! Lower valley of the River Shire, Meller! British Central Africa : 
Nyasaland ; by the River Shire, Kirk ! Meller ! between Mpata and the Tanganyika 
Plateau, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte! Songwe and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte, 29! 
Lake Nyasa; Lukoma (Likoma Islands ?), Bellingham ! Nyasaland, Buchanan, 173! 
1028! 1313! 
26. B. Clivorum, (. B. Clarke. Innovations, and young leaves 
beneath, stellate-tomentose. Leaves up to 44 by 14 in., acuminate at 
either end, when mature glabrous beneath with conspicuous cystoliths ; 
petiole up to 1} in. long; otherwise as B. spinulosa. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! 
British Central Africa : Nyasaland; between Mpata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 
2000-3000 ft., Whyte! 
27. B. consanguinea, AJotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 208. 
Branches thickly clothed with spreading white soft hairs ;'5 in. long, 
without any gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 2-1} in. long; otherwise as 
B. spinulosa.—Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
_ Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Beira, Braga, 81 ! Lower Zambesi ; 
Rios de Sena, Peters ! Shupanga, Scott / 
28. B. capitata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 210. Branch 
canescent with short incurved white hair. Leaves 1 by }—3 in., sub- 
obtuse, narrowed at the base, subsessile, simply hairy. Inflorescence a 
unilateral, very dense, many-flowered raceme 1-1} in. in diam. ; sterile 
bracts 44 in. long, reduced to deeply pinnatifid stiff spines; fertile 
bracts 1 in, long, lanceolate, ciliate subspine-toothed. Posticous sepal 
1} in. long, ovate-lanceolate, ciliate spine-toothed. Style 23 in. long. 
Capsule 3 in, long, 4-seeded, glabrous—Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr 
. 869, 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Schweinfurth, 1071! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Rios de Sena, 
Peters! British Central Africa: Rhodesia ; Leshumo Valley, Holud ? 
Allied to B. lichtensteiniana of South Africa. 
. 29. B. Steudneri, (. B. Clarke. Small branched shrub, with 
Simple hairs all over, Leaves up to 1 by 4 in., obovate-elliptic, " 
mucronate, base narrowed into a petiole 71; in. long. Spikes dense, Ts 
