40 DIDYNAMTA ANGIOSPERMIA, Barleria, 
pointed, waved, a little scabrous, from four to five inches long, 
and from two to two and a half broad. Spikes short, axil- 
lary and terminal, recurved, bearing the flowers on the upper 
or convex side. Bractes one or two to each flower, placed 
on the outside, oblong, pointed, nervous, waved, dentate, ci- 
liate. Flowers large, blue, placed alternately in two rows. 
Calyx four-leaved; exterior pair large, pointed, dentate, 
ciliate, waved ; inner pair lanceolate, small, Nectary a 
cup surrounding the base of the germ. Filaments, a fifth 
sterile, between the short pair of stamens, Capsule litlet 
_ more than half the length of the exterior a Seeds two 
in each valye, a ; 
A icdecd laknas steady species, a native of a 
and the lower region of mountains. | 
_ Stem very short, woody ; bark whitish ; hecibchats very nu- 
_ merous, below opposite, above alternate, cit caliiets from two 
to four feet high, Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, entire, 
covered with much soft white down, from one to two inches 
long, and one or one and ahalf broad. Flowers axillary, soli- 
tary, alternate, short-peduncled, white, in the opposite axill is 
br et, the flowers occupying those axills on the upper 
side, and the branchlet those on the under, . Bractes. two, 
"opposite, linear-lanceolate, revolute. Calyx four-leaved ; the 
exterior two opposite, large, boitlates reticulated, chafty, 
_ waved ; the interior two also opposite, but many ‘nnenasiialle 
ef, lanceolate and concave. Corol ; tube very long, from four 
_ to six inches, filiform, bent a little; segments of the border 
- flat, equal, obcordate, Anthers, the superior pair somewhat 
sagittate ; the inferior small and two-lobed. . Stigma clavate, 
somewhat three-sided, prema nem Seeds four, 
two in each cell, silky. Coe ee a 
