Barleria. | XCVIII, ACANTHACES (CLARKE). 163 
tip minutely 2-toothed; 2 inner sepals } in. long, linear. Corolla-tube 
4 in. long, linear-cylindric, a little narrowed at the top; lobes 3 in. 
long, obovate. Anthers rather shorter than in the neighbouring 
species. Ovary glabrous, or very nearly so; ovules 2 in each cell, the 
lower much smaller, style glabrous with a dense cluster of short-stalked 
glands at the base-—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 391; Lindau in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 314, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma vi. [1896] 71; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1897, 376. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Ahl Mountains, 4800-6500 ft., Hildebrandt, 866! 
Waggar Mountains, 5000 ft., Urs. Lort Phillips ! Ualema, Riva, 1629! British East 
Africa: Coast of South Somaliland at Tula River, Kirk ! 
This is very near the small-leaved form of B, salicifolia, but has a much smaller 
calyx. 
58. B. fulvostellata, C. B. Clarke. Whole shrub with scattered 
persistent tawny stellate hairs. Leaves up to 2} in. long and broad, 
round, apiculate; petiole 1-4 in. long. Cymes many, few-flowered, 
short, unilateral, axillary and terminal; barren bracts }-} in. long, 
linear, entire, not spinous; fertile bract 2 by } in., elliptic, acute, entire. 
Posticous sepal 2 in. long and broad, entire, obtuse, becoming papery ; 
anticous calyx-segment 3 in. long, obovate, tip of 2 short round lobes ; 
2 lateral sepals 4 in. long, ovate, falcate, subacute. Corolla 14 in. in 
total length, a deep purple-blue when dried. Pistil glabrous with a 
large entire cup-shaped disc. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Tanganyika Plateau, 
2000-3000 ft., Whyte! Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! 181! 
59. B. opaca, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 230.  Straggling half- 
climbing shrub. Leaves 21 by 1} in., narrowed at both ends, when 
mature with scattered simple hairs on both faces; petiole 0-} in. long. 
ymes very short, 3—1-flowered, approximated in the upper axils and 
running into a dense spike; floral leaves }-1 in. long, subsessile, 
similar to the lower leaves but smaller, hardly imbricated to form a 
strobilate spike; bract } in. long, linear or scarcely spathulate. — Posti- 
Cous sepal nearly 4 in. long, entire, quadrate-oblong, shortly apiculate, 
hairy 3 anticous segment rather shorter, 2-nerved, tip shortly 2-toothed ; 
inner sepals 4—1 in. long, linear. Corolla-tube }-1 in. long, narrow 
funnel-shaped upwards; lobes 4 in. long. Ovary glabrous; ovules 
2 in each cell ; style glabrous. Capsule } in. long, compressed, ellipsoid, 
narrowed at each end, 2-seeded.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480; 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 31; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 
1898, 77. B. Afzelii, Lindau MS. in Hb. Berol. Justicia opaca, Vahl, 
Enum. i. 133; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 10. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Brass! Gold Coast: Accra, Don! Ashanti : 
Akroful, Cummins, 30! Volta Basin ; Alafango, Krause ! Lagos: Abeokuta, Rowland! 
and without precise locality, Millen, 46! 179! Niger Delta: Brass, Don / Cameroons : 
Buea, 6000 ft., Preuss, 714! 
S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 268, asks whether this may not be a variety of 
* ventricosa, which differs in its yellow-green colour, tawny hairs on the innovations, 
and less dense spikes. 
