156 XCVII. ACANTHACEH (CLARKE). { Barleria. 
capsule). Capsule } in. long, silky, 2-seeded, the linear-conic beak ¢ in. 
tong, forming half the capsule, seeds altogether of the genus.—Balf. f. 
in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. xxxi. 214; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315. B. schweinfurthiana, Lindau in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. 26, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315, andin Eng). 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. B. diffusa, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 3 B. 315; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 398. SB. yemensis, 
Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315. JB. jucunda, 
Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. [1896] 75. B. Phillipsee, Rendle 
in Journ. Bot. 1897, 378. Somalia diffusa, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 
1528, and in James, Unknown Horn. Afr. 321, t. 8; Schweinf. in 
Hohnel, Zum Rudolph-See und Stephanie-See, Sonderabdr. 1892, 6. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, James & Thrupp! Darar, Donaldson Smith! Yafir, 
6500 ft., Hildebrandt, 860c! German East Africa: Usambara; West of the Pare 
Range, 600-2500 ft., Hohnel, 6! 
An example bearing the MS. name Gossypiospermum, Schweinfurth, 19774, at 
Kew, contains the present plant and Ruellia patula, Jacq. 
In B. jucunda, Lindau, the capsule is glabrous or very nearly so; the upper part 
of the young ovary is glandular and hairy. 
36. B. parviflora, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 65. Branches 
with closely adpressed white hairs. Leaves up to 1} by ? in., ovate 
elliptic, obtuse, rounded at the base, sessile, when young with some 
medifixed hairs on the margin, when mature nearly glabrate. Cymes 
lax, 1-3-flowered ; bract nearly } in. long, broad-lanceolate. Two outer 
calyx-segments exceeding } in. long, ovate, acute; posticous notched. 
Corolla (whole length) 3 in., or scarcely more. Ovary with 2 ovules 1m 
each cell, lower minute. Capsule } in. long, 2-seeded, pubescent, 
beaked.—T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, 29; Lindau in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315. B. Harnierii, Solms-Laub. 
in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 106, 242. B. paucijlora, Lindau 2 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315. 2B. cordifolia, Hochst. 
ex T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 29. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Mount Erkowit, near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 255! Eritrea : 
Habab, 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 453! Abyssinia: mountains near Gageros, 3500 ft., 
Schimper, 11! 2291! and without precise locality, Schimper, 1383 ! 1627! Somali- 
land, Riva, 1680! 
37. B. Hochstetteri, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 231. Hairs and 
habit as of B. argentea. Leaves up to 12 by } in,, elliptic, obtuse, 
narrowed into a petiole 1-1 in. long. Cymes few-flowered, lax ; pedicel 
often } in. long, that of a lateral flower sometimes with minute linear 
bracteoles. Two outer calyx-segments nearly } by } in. ovate, entire, 
subequal. Corolla-tube } in. long, lobes }-} in. long. Ovary with 2 
ovules in each cell, lower minute. Capsule exceeding } in. long, 2-seeded. 
minutely hairy, beaked.— Wight, Ic. t. 1528; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. vii. 29; Zarb, Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 32; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 107, 243; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind.1¥. 
483; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315, fig. 12° 
