Barleria.] CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 483 
Pistil glabrous. Capsule 3-1in., 2-seeded. Seeds $ in. diam., much compressed, 
ovate. 
2. B. cuspidata, Heyne; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 93, and in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 239; glabrous, leaves subsessile narrowly oblong-lanceolate 
spine-tipped, flowers axillary scarcely spiked at the end of the branches, 
bracts lanceolate acnminate spine-tipped, bracteoles minute bristles or 0. 
dal. Cat. 2499; Wight Ic. t. 451; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA, alt. 0-2000 ft. ; Concan, Carnatic, Mysore, Coimbatore, 
Rottler, Wight, &c. 
A lower, harsher, more prickly undershrub than B. Prionitis, with shorter inter- 
nodes. Leaves 24 by 3 in., occasionally 1 by 4 in., elliptic, entire. Flowers nearly all 
axillary, distant 3 bracts 3-2 in., usually very narrow. Calyx 3-1 in., segments long 
acuminate. Corolla 1j in., yellow. Capsule and seeds as of B. Prionitis.-- 
Exceedingly near B. Prionitis, as Heyne has noted in Herb. Rottler. Nees erroneously 
says the corolla is pale blue; does not allow it to have been B. cuspidata, Heyne, 
but says it is part of B. noctiflora, Heyne. Heyne has, however, named these two 
species correctly in Rottler's Herbarium. 
3. B. Hochstetteri, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 231; pubescent, leaves 
elliptic or oblong entire, flowers pedicelled, bracteoles small narrow remote 
from the calyx, corolla i-] in. lilac. Wight Ic. t. 1528; Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 803; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 494; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 523. 
Barlerites Hochstetteri, Oerst. in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. 1854, 137. 
SCINDE; Sfocks.—DisTRIB. S.W. Asia, N.E. Africa. . . 
A woody, harsh undershrub, scarcely 1 foot high, sometimes spinescent. Leaves 
2 by j-1in, obtuse, base narrowed ; petiole 4 in. Pedice/s 1-] in., pubescent, often 
3 on an apparent peduncle, the 2 leaves at their base much reduced, usually petioled, 
oblong or sublinear ; bracteoles about the middle of the pedicel 2, 1, or 0, very small, 
linear (P bracts). Calux green, pubescent; 2 outer lobes j-j in., triangular-ovate, 
2 inner very small. Stamens 2, the 3 smaller nearly obsolete. Dise prominent, 
cup-shaped. Ovary hairy ; stigma scarcely bifid. Capsule nearly 4 in., pubescent, 
ovoid, rostrate, 2-seeded near the base. Seeds densely silky.— Oersted attributes to 
lis very bad genus Barlerites a unilateral linear stigma and glabrous seeds, which is 
wholly wrong. 
Subgenus 2. Eubarleria. Capsule oblong or narrowly ellipsoid, 4- 
wena 2-seeded at or near the middle by the suppression of the 2 lower 
seeds, 
* Bract 0, bracteoles 2 divaricate long-linear or spines, 2 outer sepals 
arge. {Each flower on the sympodal raceme is in the axil of one of two 
Opposite bracteoles, and the terminal flower also is apparently 2-bracteolate ; 
Jy Comparing such species as B. longiflora & tomentosa, it is seen that it 
15 the bracteoles that are really aborted in this section. The next section 
iffers in the terminal flower having 3 (or 4) bracts in place of 2.] 
t Prickly. 
4. B. buxifolia, Linn.; Neesin Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 94, and in DC. 
Prodr, xi. 241 ; leaves small broadly elliptic obtuse mucronate hairy. flowers 
solitar pedicelled or sessile, 2 outer sepals oblong entire. Roth 2 E ^ p. 
313; Wi. Cat. 2504, partly; kozb. Fl. Ind. iii. 37; Wight Te. t. 605 
*- Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 489. Dicranacanthus buxifolia, Oerst. 
în Vidensk, Meddel. Kjob. 1854, 136. 
S. Deccan PeNINSULA, alt. 0-4000 ft.; Aot/ler; Courtallum, Wight; Concan, 
Law, &c, i » 
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