38 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Barleria, 
of Silhet. It is a large, very ramous shrub. Flowering time 
the cold season, during which period it is uncommonly gau- 
dy ; young shoots round, jointed, hairy. Leaves opposite, 
sessile, broad-lanceolate, entire, hairy, from two to three inches 
long. Flowers axillary, sessile, one or two, rarely more than 
three, large, ofa beautiful bright blue. Bractes from two to 
three, subulate, hairy, Calya four-leaved ; exterior. pair. 
hairy, oblong and ciliated with strong bristles ; interior pair 
much smaller, lanceolate and hairy,  Corol, tube oblong, 
outside downy; border two-lipped, upper lip four-parted ; 
the under one broader, but shorter and entire, Nectary a 
two-lipped cup, embracing the lower half of the germ, | Fi- 
laments as in the family, with the addition of a small, fifth 
sterile one, all hairy. Anihers. two-parted 
eee rather longer than thelong filament, Stigma en! 
foratec between two short manned. itt 
3 Byuikete. Roxke: | 
Unarmed, shrubby, with few long spreading branches. 
Leaves lanceolate, Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary or in 
_A native of the interior parts of Bengal and from thence. 
seut by Dr. W. Carey, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 
where it blossoms about the beginning of the cold season, — 
Stems scarcely any, but several long slender diffuse, strag- 
gling branches and branchlets; which makes it rather a nak- 
ed:plant, when compared with the species formerly described 
by me under the name B. cristata, though I must now ac- 
knowledge the species before me'agrees better with Osbeck’s 
figure than that does. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, lanceolate, 
frequently recurved, a little hairy, entire, about two or three 
inches long, and half an inch broad. Flowers axillary, soli- 
tary or in pairs, large, pink, with a slight tinge of purple. 
_ Bractes ensiform, often ciliate. Calyx, leaflets two. pairs ; ex- 
terior pair lanceolate, nervose, ciliate ; inner pair sal and 
—eaaiforn. Corel, upper sidebar ous: 
= below. 
