230 



ENUMEBATiow OF lAcanthocea. 



N. ab E. in DC. Prod. xi. p. 448 ; Wight, Ic. t 466.— c.p. 2003.—S^wis 



laxis ; bracteis distantibua, lanceolatis, longissime attenuatis. 



2000 



pubescence on the spikes. — T,A, 



ami 



SUBOKD. 3. ACANTHWE^.—Mtivatio corollce imbricata vel imbricaio- 



hilaliata. Semina retinaculo uncinato suffuUa. 



TEIB. BARLERIEM. 



13. BARLERIA, Linn. 



1. B. biapinosa, Valil, (DC. Prod. xi. p. 241.)— c.P. 2013.—^. spina 

 Ceylanica, IS. ab E. 1. c. p. 242. 

 Hab. Hot, drier parts of the island. 



2. R. Amottiana, I' 



partim. 



Hab. j^J'ewera Ellia. 



ambi 



pallide cyanea.— G?. Thw. 



T \ ?=:"o*^f '**iS**,'--'i"^' ^^- ^^ -^- ^^ ^^^- ^- P- 229, cum syn. ; Wight, 

 Ic. t. 46d.)— ^. dichotoma, et B. ciliata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. B. Nepalensis, 

 N. abE.l.c.p. 228. ^ 



^ Ha_b. Common in gardens, but never met with truly wild in the 

 islaad. •' 



Repeated examinations of an extensive set of specimens in the Hoolierian Herba- 

 rium have comnnced me that B. emtata, dichotoma, ciliata, and Nepalenm, are 

 forms of one vanable species. The differences supposed to exist, in the leaves heing 

 stalked m B. dichotoma and sessile in B. cristata, are not at all constant. The in- 

 florescence varies equally as much, the flowers being solitary in the axils of the leaves, 

 or m short spikes of 4 or 5. The colour of the corolla varies from all shades of 

 white to dark Iflac or purple. Kosburgh describes and figures the coroUa of his B. 

 dichotoma as white. — T. A. ' 



4. B. nutans, N. ab E. in DC. 1. c. p. 227.— C.P. 2011, 2559. 

 Hab. Central Provmce, at an elevation of 1000 to 3000 feet. 



Corolla cyaneo-purpurea.— G^. Thte. 



Ad\^' **"°'''*"' Linn. (N. ab E. in DC. 1. c. p. 237; Wight, Ic. t. 



Hab. Yery abundant in the hotter parts of the island, Norn. yulg. 

 '* jLattoo Kurandoo." 



This plant is employed as a medicine by the Cinghalese.— {?. Tkw. 



6 B. pentandra, Am. (N. ab E. in DC. L c. p. 232; Wight, 111. t. 

 164.)— c.P. 310, 682, partim, et 2558.— _B. involuerata, N. ab E. in 



DC. 1. c. 



Ambagamowa 



Corolla cyaueo-purpurea.— ff. T/iw. 



folii 



~: Tf. ""' . -ciu»^ci». ; neruacea, nirsuta pilia patentiDus; joms 

 ovatia, elliptici8, utrinque attenuatis, petiolatis vel subsessilibus ; cymis 

 axUianbus terminalibusnue. s-narsiflnn's U^\a - T^^^^^^c QTinmfifissima 



gustissi: 



iciuucuiatiH, acutis ; calycu segmentia inaqualibus, lauceolatis, strigosifl 

 extenoram Buperiore acuto, inferiore minute biOdo, iuterioribus acutis 



