166 XCVII1. ACANTHACE (CLARKE). [ Barleria. 
ovate, entire, densely villous, notched ;3, in. down. Corolla-tube 7 in. 
long; lobes large, round. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Antunes, 185! Capello, 19! 
67. B. Holstii, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 19. Straggling 2-3 
ft. long, young parts yellow-strigose. Leaves up to 7 by 1} in., elliptic, 
attenuate at both ends, when mature with scattered hairs and conspl- 
cuous cystoliths; petiole 0. Inflorescence of 3~—1-flowered condensed 
unilateral racemes in distant axils; bract 3 by + in., lanceolate, falcate. 
Posticous sepal up to 1 by 4-2 in., ovate-triangular, acute, minutely 
toothed; anticous calyx-segment hardly ? in. long, ovate, 2-nerved, 
truncate, emarginate. Corolla 1} in. long, purple-blue. Ovary and 
style glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell—Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 368. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Mascheua, Holst, 3516! 
68. B. neurophylla, C. B. Clarke. Nerves (primary and secondary) 
very conspicuous beneath the leaf. Posticous calyx-segment }-3 in. 
long, ovate, obtuse, scarcely toothed ; otherwise as B. Holstit. 
Mozamb. Dist. Lake Tanganyika; Kavala Isles, Carson ! 
Possibly a form only of B. Holstii ; but from only one branchlet of each it is 
difficult to form an opinion concerning specific separability. 
69. B. repens, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 230. Prostrate, 1-2 ft. long, 
young parts yellow-strigose. Leaves 14 by ? in. (larger in cultivated 
examples), shortly villous, afterwards more or less glabrate, tip triangular, 
base attenuate sometimes to the base of the petiole. Racemes scattered, 
2-1-flowered ; bract minute, linear. Two outer calyx-segments sub- 
similar, up to ¢ by 4-2 in., ovate, sparsely hairy, subentire, ultimately 
membranous reticulate, tip triangular. Corolla 1} in. long, pink; tube 
linear, narrowly funnel-shaped upwards. Ovary and style glabrous. 
Capsule 4—? in. long, 2-seeded, or 4-seeded with the 2 lower seeds con- 
siderably smaller.—T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 31; Hook. f. Bot. 
Mag. t. 6954 partly ; Lindau in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Pemba Island, Bojer ! Kilwa Island, Kirk ! 
Portuguese East Africa ; Inhambane, Scott ! 
70. B. querimbensis, Alotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 209. 
Branches strigose with erect simple hairs. Leaves 1} by 3 in., broadly 
elliptic, triangular at either end, when young yellow-strigillose, when 
mature glabrate; petiole } in. long. Flowers 1 (rarely 2) in the uppe? 
axils, very shortly pedicelled; bracts linear, minute. Posticous sep 
1 by 3 in., ovate-triangular, acute, apiculate, cordate at the base. s00P 
becoming scarious, reticulate, glabrate (young nerves yellow-strigillose): 
Corolla rose; tube 1 in. long, funnel-shaped at the top; limb 4 1D. 
long. Capsule } in. long, 4-seeded, glabrous.—Lindau in Engl. Pa. 
Ost-Afr. C, 368. 
