Barleria.| CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 485 
tt Unarmed. 
8. B. longiflora, Linn. f. Suppl. 239; pubescent, leaves petioled 
ovate, flowers in short dense few-fld. spikes or solitary, bracteoles very long 
linear laxly patent, corolla-tube very long linear pubescent without. Vahl 
Symb. i. 46, t. 16; Gaertn. Fruct. i. 253, t. 54; Wail. Cat. 2501; Roxb. FT. 
Ind. iii. 40; Nees in Wail. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 93, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 235. 
B. longifolia, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 491, by typog. error not 
A inn. Barleriosiphon longiflorus, Oerst. in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. 
; 136. 
S. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Rottler, &c.; Tinnevelly, Beddome. 
A shrub, 2-4 ft. Leaves 13 by 1 in, subacute, base rounded, entire; petiole 
i- in. Spikes mostly 1—4-fld.; bracteoles 3-1 by jj in., softly pubescent. Sepals 
pubescent, afterwards scarious, glabrate, nervose ; 2 outer 3-1 by } in., ovate, entire. 
Corolla-tube 2-3 by $ in.; lobes }-} in., ovate. Capsule 3 in., 4-seeded. 
9. B. tomentosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 314; leaves elliptic or ovate acumi- 
nate at both ends yellow-hirsute above, bracteoles linear or linear-spathulate, 
sepals oblong acute young scarious coloured, corolla 2-234 in. glabrous. 
Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 92, and in. DC. Prodr. ix. 233; T. Anders. 
tn Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 451. B. paniculata, Wall. Cat.2407; Nees in Walt, 
Pl. As. Rar. iii. 92, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 233. 
S. Deccan PENiINsULA; Rottler, &c. 
A low shrub; branches hirsute. Leaves 24 by 1 in., yellow-hirsute on the nerves 
beneath, more or less so on the surface; petiole } in. ; Racemes mostly 1-3-fld.; 
bracteoles 3-3 in. Calyz scarious, purple-veined before the flower expands ; 2 outer 
segments i in., broadly oblong, entire, 2 inner j in.; elongated in fruit. Corolla 
rose (Beddome) ; tube 2 in., linear-cylindrie, upper j in., funnel-shaped ; lobes $ in., 
elliptic. Capsule 3 in., 4-seeded, occasionally the 2 lower seeds suppressed. 
VAR. acuminata ; leaves densely pubescent subtomentose rounded or subcordate 
at the base, petiole 1 in. B. acuminata, Wight Ic. t. 450; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. iii. 93, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 234. B. tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 2503. B. 
racemosa, Heyne in Herb. Rottler.—S. Deccan Peninsula; Nilgherries, Anamallays, 
Madura, &c., Rottler, Wight, &c.—Easily distinguished from B. tomentosa, but 
sitters only in the shape of the leaves and indumentum ; the corolla is somewhat 
smaller, 
10. B. involucrata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 92, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 232; leaves elliptic narrow at both ends yellow-strigose on the 
nerves beneath, racemes few-fld. axillary, bracteoles lanceolate or linear 
much shorter than the sepals, sepals l in. elongate elliptic, corolla zin. 
blue, Wight Ili. t. 164; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 492. .B. 
Dentandra, Arn.; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 232; T. Anders. in Thwaites 
Enum. 230, partly. B. Macraei, Arn. ms. 
CEYLON, in the hills; Macrae, Gardner, &c. MALABAR (var. elata). 
Herbaceous, strigose. Leaves 4j by 1} in. sparsely yellow strigillose above ; 
petiole } in. Racemes yellow-strigose ; bracteoles } by 3 in. (in Nees type), j by yin. 
(in Arnott's B, pentandra). Sepals subacute. Corolla-tube 1} in.; lobes 14 in, 
obovate-elliptic. Capsule nearly 1 in., 4-seeded.—Nees has confounded the Ceylon 
and Nilgiri varieties of this species ; his description of B. involucrata is found 
on Wight’s n. 1958 from Ceylon, and he says the bracteoles are 4 lines long; he hes 
Places under this the Malabar specimens, which do not suit the description, and whic 
all belong to his B. terminalis (see B. strigosa, var.). The Ceylon specimens ph very 
uniform, drying black, and having the racemes mainly axillary. The bracteo AS tt 
in well-developed specimens much longer than in the poor pieces Nees an rao 
had, but still much shorter than in B. elata. Wight's n. 1958 has the bracteoles 
unusually broad and obtuse. 
