Barleria.] ACANTITACEH (Clarke). 5d 
EasTERN REGION: Delagoa Bay, Junod, 114, 321. 
Frequent in South-east Tropical Africa. ° 
28. B. ilicina (E. Meyer ex T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe, vii. 
28); erect, glabrous; stem terete; leaves shortly petioled, ovate, 
spinous at the tip, spinous-toothed on the margins; bracts simple, 
rigid, tip and margins spinous; outer calyx-segments ovate, long 
spinous-toothed on the margins, membranons, glabrous, reticulated ; 
inner lanceolate, spinous, 1-nerved. 
Wesverv Reaion: Little Namaqualand ; between Holgat River and Orange 
River, Drége. 
Not seen. There is no Barleria ilicina in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 
Documente, but there is a Blepharis? ilicina, EH. Meyer, at pp. 92 and 168, 
T. Anderson’s plant might, from the description, be Barleria irritans, var. rigida. 
XIX. RUTTYA, Harv. 
Bra.ts and bracteoles small, linear. Calya 5-partite nearly to the 
base ; segments 5, equal, narrowly laneeolate. Oorolla-tube wide ; 
segments 5, ovate, in 2 lips. Stamens 2, fertile ; anthers 1-celled ; 
pollen subglobose, longitudinally ribbed. Style with 2 very small 
equal branches. Capsule ellipsoid, stalked, 4-seeded in the upper 
part ; seeds without hairs. _ : 
Panicles dense, terminal, appearing as short or long cylindric spikes; leaves 
entire; the herbaceous petioles disarticulite at the base leaviug small wooden 
cup-like scars on the branches, 1 
Species 5, African, whereof 1 extends to Arabia, 2 to Madagascar. 
1. R. ovata (Harv. in Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. i. (1842) 27); a 
small glabrescent shrub, the young parts and inflorescence sparingly 
pubescent; branches rather thick; leaves 3} by 1} in., ovate, 
narrowed suddenly into a petiole } in. long; inflorescence 13-3 by 
11 in., dense, of numerous abbreviated cymes appearing almost 
comose from the numerous caudate sepals } in. long ; corolla } in. 
long, white (Wood). Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 309; Harv. Thes, 
Cap. ii. 27, t. 144; 1. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 51 ; Lindau 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 340. Hypoestes jimbriata, 
BE. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 156, 193 fide 
Nees. 
Kaawarr Recion: Transvaal; Rimers Creek, near Barberton, Wood, 23! 
4016! Elandspruit, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 3871! : 
Eastern Resin: Natal; Uunbloti, Wood, 1224! littoral, Wood, 462! 
near Durban, Williamson ! near the mouth of Umzimkulu River, Drége, and 
without precise locality, Sutherland ! Peddie! Gueinsius ! 
XX. JUSTICIA, Linn. 
Calyx small, divided nearly to the base into 5 or 4 narrow 
segments. Corolla (in the Cape species) small or medium-sized, 
2-lipped, hairy; tube not (or searcely) longer than the limb; 
