294 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



Barleria buxifolia. Hort. Beng. 45. Hoit. Kew. iii. 59? 

 Barleria cristata /S. Enc. Meth. i. 380. III. Gen. t. 549. /• 2. 

 Capparis forma, frutex spinosus malabaricus. Tluk. Aim. 80. 

 Cara SchuUi. Hort. Mai. ii. 91. t. 47. 

 Habitat in Malyalae sterilibus saxosis. 



Frutex difFusus, ramosissimus. Rami pilosi, tetragoni, laterlim 

 duobus convexis, duobus concavis. Folia opposita, sub- 

 sessilia, obovata, spina brevissima mucronata, integerrima, 

 supra scabra, subtus ad marginem praesertim pilosa, venosa, 

 internodiis longiora, stipulis nuda. Flores axillares, alterni, 

 erecti, folio triplo longiores, nunc sessiles, tunc pedicellati, 

 ad imam spinis duabus semiteretibus validis pilosis divari- 

 catis indivisis bracteati, caerulei. Calycis quadripartiti la- 

 ciniffi duae exteriores plano-parallelae, subaequales, ellipticae, 

 venosae, spinoso-dentatae ; interiores lanceolatae, parvae, in- 

 tegerrimae. CovoUcb tubus teres, incurvus, calyce duplo 

 longior : limbus patens, quinquepartitus laciniis obtusis, 

 oblongis, subaequalibus. Filamenta e tubi medio quinque 

 subulata, quorum tria minima (unde Rheedii oculos efFuge- 

 rint) antheris sterilibus, inclusis ; duo limbo paulo breviora 

 antheris fertilibus oblongis incumbentibus bifidis. Germen 

 superum. Stylus filiformis longitudine staminum fertilium. 

 Stigma acutum, aduncum. 



In campis Cherae sterilibus planta vix specie diversa flores habet 

 albos, calycis foliola exteriora subcordata, caetera omnia 

 simillima. 



M. Lamarck objects to this being the Cara SchuUi on account 

 of the short spines at the end of the leaves, which are not repre- 

 sented in some of the leaves figured by Rheede, and are not men- 

 tioned in the description ; but they are so small as not to have at- 

 tracted the notice of the botanists of former days ; and they are 



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