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 Barleria cristata. Crested Barleria. 



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Cfo/J j«i Order. 



DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Cat. 4-partitus. Stam. 2 longe minora. G$/I 4-anguIaris, 2- 

 locularisj 2-valvis, elaftica abfque unguibus. Sem. 2. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



BARLERIA crijlata ; foliis oblongis integerrimis, calycis fo- 

 liolis duobus latioribus, ["ciliato-fpinulofisj duobufque li- 

 nearibus acutis. Sp. PL 887. Willd. 3. p. 378. OJb. It. 

 225. /. 8. Bot. Repof. 625. Perfoon Syn. 2. p. 179. 



It is not improbable but that more fpecies than one have 

 been taken for Barleria crijlata; we are inclined however to 

 believe that our plant is the fame as that defcribed and figured 

 by Osbeck, from whofe fpecimens we fuppofe that Linn^euj 

 made his description. The fynonym quoted by the laft-men- 

 tioned author, and continued by Willdenow from Morison, 

 appears to belong to Prionitis, certainly not to this fpecies. 



Our plant grew with an upright branched Jlem between two 

 and three feet high, fwelled at the divifions of the branches, 

 rounded, flriate, pubefcent. Leaves oppofite, on fhort foot- 

 ftalks, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, on both fides fomewhat 

 hifpid with fhort ftirT hairs, and ribbed underneath by flrong 

 tranfverfe veins. Bratles 2, at the bafe of the calyx lanceolate 

 and ciliated. Calyx of four leaflets : the two outermoft ovate- 

 acuminate with pectinated teeth hardly fpinous, flriate, pu- 

 befcent : the two innermoft awl-fhaped, quite entire, terminated 

 in a fharp rigid point, much fhorter than the outer ones, patent. 

 Corolla funnel-fhaped : tube long, flraight : limb five-cleft, lobes 

 nearly equal, obtufe, the two upper ones erect and the bottom 

 one more deeply feparated, violet-coloured with fome paler 



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