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minores. Filamenta e medio tubi quatuor subulata, quorum 
duo brevissima antheris sterilibus, duo longiora antheris 
bifidis, inclusis. Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis longi- 
tudine staminum majorum. Stigma incrassatum, oblique 
truncatum. Capsula longitudine calycis compressa, bival- 
vis. Valvule naviculares, medio septiferæ. Semina in sin- 
gulis loculis duo, septo adnato insidentia, retinaculis sub- 
tensa. 
The B. cristata of Linnæus is a larger, less rigid shrub, with 
leafy bracts, and is cultivated in the gardens of Gangetic India 
as an ornamental flower, and called Jhungti. As in most culti- 
vated plants, a considerable number of varieties have arisen ; nor 
have I been able to discover any specific character, on which I 
could depend to distinguish this B. cristata (Hort. Deng. 45.) 
from Dr. Roxburgh's B. dichotoma ; so that 1 suspect both may 
belong to the same species, exceedingly different from the Cara 
Schulli, but differing very little from Dr. Roxburgh's Barleria 
cærulea, which may be the uncultivated plant; and this again is 
scarcely sufficiently distinct from a shrub called Nundhekuja, 
which I found on the lowest part of the Himalya mountains near' 
the Gandaki river. Specimens of all these have been presented 
to the East India Company's Collection; and they are all easily 
distinguished from the Cara Schulli by wanting spines. 
In the south of India, however, I found another species of 
Barleria, much more allied to the Cara Schulli than these plants 
of Gangetic India, and which it may require some care to distin- 
guish. I gave specimens and a drawing to Sir J. E. Smith, under 
the name of Barleria rubra, and shall here give a description. 
Barleria rubra bracteis spiniformibus simplicissimis, floribus axil- 
laribus solitariis alternis, calyce integerrimo, foliis pilosis. 
Habitat in Carnatæ campis sterilibus. 
Frutex 
