Barleria. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 37 
axillary, generally solitary, sessile, large, yellow. Bractes 
uncertain, when there are no thorns on the same axill there 
are two, opposite, linear, daggered, besides an undeter- 
mined number of very small ones. Stamens, the long 
pair projecting, their filaments compressed. Stigma entire, 
cylindric, open, pitted. Capsule conical, two-seeded, one 
seed in each cell. 
2. B. buxifolia, Willd. iii, 377. : 
‘Shrubby, spreading. Spines simple, axillary, twin. Leaves 
round, with spinous joints, lowers not long, sessile be- 
tween the twin spines. 
Cara-schulli. Rheed, Mal. ii. t. 47. bad, if for this plant. 
A native of Malabar, Mysore, &e. from the latter country 
the seeds were sent by Dr. Buchanan in 1800 to the Bota- 
nic garden at Calcutta, where the plants thrive well, and are 
in blossom during the hot season, 
Stems scarcely any, but several slender, variously bent, 
ramous, spreading branches ; young shoots round and downy. 
Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, nearly round, entire, spinous, 
pointed, villous on both sides ; about half an inch long, and 
nearly as broad, Spines in aselithy’ pairs longer ities the’ 
leaves, simple, slender, white and sharp, when they are in 
opposite axills they form a verticel of four, but it is only the 
older branches on which they are found in both. Flowers 
solitary, sessile in the forks of the spines, large, ofa beautiful 
pink tinged with violet, Stamens the two with fertile an- 
thers considerably longer than the tube of the corol, and in 
this species there are three short sterile filaments. ues 
= with two — —_ in éscas cell, 
38. B. cristata. Willd, Heel dete 7 ‘ 
~ Unarmed, opi sceape = broad, lanceolate, en- - 
