296 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



minores.' Filament a 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. Fa/uwte naviculares, medio septiferae. Semi/m. in sin- 

 gulis loculis duo, septo adnato insidentia, retinaculis sub- 

 tensa. 



The B. cristata of Linnaeus 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. Beng. 45.) 

 from Dr. Roxburgh's B. dichotoma ; so that I suspect both may 

 belong to the same species, exceedingly different from the Cara 

 Schulli, but differing very little from Dr. Roxburgh's Barleria 

 cceriilea, 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 Carnatse campis sterilibus. 



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