164 XCVIII, ACANTHACEA (CLARKE). | Barleria. 
60. B. villosa, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 267. Rambling, 
4 ft. high. Leaves 34 by 14 in., narrowed at both ends, villous with 
simple hairs on both surfaces; petiole up to 1 in. long. Inflorescence 
nearly as of B. opaca. Posticous sepal # by % in., entire; anticous 
calyx-segment bitid to } of its length. Corolla blue-purple, tube 
yellowish ; otherwise as B. opaca. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 5070! 5071! Malange, 
Buchner, 138! 
This species is near B. opaca, but has the two outer calyx-segments much 
narrower, 
61. B. ventricosa, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 230. Erect, 3-6 ft. high 
(ees); strigose with tawny hairs prominent on the innovations. 
Leaves up to 2 by 3 in., yellow-green; petiole 0-} in. long. Spikes 
much less dense than in B. opaca, and with more numerous scattered 
cymes in remoter axils; otherwise as B. opaca.—A. Rich. Tent. Fi. 
Abyss. ii, 143; T, Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 30; Solms-Laub. in 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 107, 243; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 391; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 314, m 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369, and in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma vi. [1896] 71. 
B. mollis, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64. B. angustiloba, Lindau 
in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 20, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Bogos, 8000 ft., Hildebrandt, 466! Keren, Steudner, 
1511! Aitala near Acrour, 5900 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1346! near Ginda, 3000- 
3500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 2118! 2199! Abyssinia: Tigre; Mount Sholoda, 
Schimper, 42! Mai Gouagoua, Petit! Mount Kubbi, Schimper, 797! Samen; Jaja, 
6000 ft., Schimper, 389! Ankober, Roth, 486! Teramne, Rohlfs & Stecker ! Choho, 
Quartin-Dillon § Petit, 296! and without precise locality, Salt! Parkyns! 
Schimper, 761! 1903! Somaliland: Harar, Robecchi, 7! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa, Mischer, 135 ! 
62. B. Grantii, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 127, t. 127. 
Shrub. Branches full of cystoliths, when young with opposite minutely 
hairy lines, when mature glabrate. Leaves 2 by 1} in., ovate, acute, 
with minute scattered hairs on both surfaces, base rounded ; petiole 
0-4 in. long. Cymes 2-1-flowered, principally in the upper axils, 
running into terminal spikes; bract ? in. long, linear. Posticous sepal 
nearly ? in. long, entire, ovate; anticous calyx-segment 3 in. long; 
ovate, tip 2-toothed. Corolla blue; tube % in. long, inflated in the 
upper half; lobes nearly 2 in. long. Ovary and style glabrous; dise 
large, cup-shaped ; ovules solitary (Oliver). Capsule 3 in. long, 2-seed 
(Grant).—Lindau in Engl. Pf, Ost-Afr. C. 368. Ruellia, sp. 0- 2; 
T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile Append. 643. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Madi; rocky banks of the Nile, Grant, 
665 ! 
Allied, as Oliver says, to B. ruellioides, T. Anders., which has the flowers in 
condensed unilateral cymes. 
63. B. Limnogeton, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 99. Villous, 
especially the young parts and inflorescence. Leaves 4 by 1 in., oblong; 
