Tab. 5628. 



BARLEEIA Gibsoni. 

 Dr. Gibsons Barleria. 



Nat. Ord. Acantuaceje. — Diaxdria Monogyma. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 4-partitus, laciniis cruciatim oppositis, super* et in- 

 fera plerumque majoribus. Corolla regulariter infuiidibulit'orinis v. hvpo- 

 craterimorpha, 5-loba, ore dilatato, laciniis imbricatis, Buperiore plerumque 

 breviore. Stamina 2, cum stamiuodiis 2 3 v. 4, didvnama, circa basin tubi 

 inserta. Antherer oblongse v. lineares, 2-loculares, loculis parallelis uraturia. 

 Stigma v. infundibuliforme, compressum, truncatum, limbo integro, v. an- 

 gustum, oblique 2-fidum. Capsula circa basin fere 2-loeukris, septo integro 

 adnato, basi 2-4-aperma. Semina retinaculo suffulta. — llcrba; v. frutices, 

 ramosa. Inflorescentia spicata axillaris v. solitaria. Calyx 2-bracteolatus. 



Barleria Gibsoni ; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis 

 acuminatis in petiolum brevem angustatis, margine minute ciliolatis, 

 floribus mbterminalibus paucia vix spicatis, bracteis parvis anguste 

 ovatis, caiycis foliolis exterioribus anguste subulatis imerioribus 

 elliptico-oblongis obtusis subacutisve viridibus, exterioribua duplo 

 longioribua multotiesque majoribus, corollae pallide purpureas tubo 

 infundibuliformi calycem sequante, limbi lobis subaequaliter rotundatia 

 2 inferioribus medio macula saturatiore notatis, ore pallido, staminibus 

 2 cum staminodiis 3 parvis subulatis. 



Barleria Gibsoni. Dalzel in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2. p. 339. 



It has already been remarked in this work, that the hitherto 

 much neglected Order AcanthacecB abounds in beautiful 

 garden plant.-, which, from their habit of flowering in winter, 

 are especially desirable for stove cultivation in this climate. 

 Such is the subject of the present Plate, a native of the 

 Ghauts of Central India, for seeds of which the Royal Gar- 

 dens are indebted to Dr. Anderson, of the Royal Gardens, 

 Calcutta, which flowered at Kew in December, 1866. Hand- 

 some as it is, it falls very far short indeed of some of its 

 congeners, also natives of the Western Indian Ghauts, and of 

 which one, B. grandiflora, Dalzel, has leaves a span long, 

 and spikes of flowers, whose corollas are four to four and a 



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