86 SOUTH NIGERIAN PLANTS 
long, 8:5 mm. wide below, increasing to double that width at the 
throat; lobes 19 mm. long (front one 18 mm.) and 8-10 mm. broad. 
Staminal filaments 15 mm. long. Anthers ovate-oblong, 4:5 mm. 
long. Staminodes 5-6 mm. long.  Ovary 9:5 mm. long. Style 
glabrous except for the pilose base, 25 mm.long. Capsule 12 mm. 
long, 6 mm. wide at the widest part, apparently 4-seeded, but seeds 
not seen. 
Much like B. triacantha Hochst. in habit, but different from it in 
several respects, notably in the calyx. For the lateral segments of 
the calyx to exceed the outer segments, as they do here, is very 
unusual in the genus. 
Barleria ($ Eu-Barleria) Talbotii S. Moore sp. nov. Frutex 
espinosus ramulis tetragonis frequenter foliosis ad nodos aliquan- 
tulum tumidos piloso-puberulis tandem glabris; foliis petiolatis 
oblongo-ovatis apicem versus subito attenuatis apice mucronulatis 
papyraceis pagina utravis glabris leviterque nitentibus ; floribus 
pluribus ex axillis superioribus approximatis ortis inflorescentiam 
densam ovoideam constituentibus breviter pedicellatis ; bracteis 
calyce brevioribus linearibus puberulis; calycis extus sparsim 
puberuli intus pubescentis segmentis exterioribus late ovatis 
margine undulatis vel rarissime dentatis ciliatis segmento postico 
apice acuto segmentis anticis fere ad apicem usque connatis 
segmentis lateralibus quam exteriora multo brevioribus lanceolatis 
acutis ; corollae cyaneae extus puberulae tubo calyci subaequilongo 
cylindrico lobis anguste oblongo-obovatis posticis paullo minoribus 
antico altius soluto; staminibus longe exsertis staminodiis 3 
abbreviatis inter se subaequalibus 2 antheram parvam fulcientibus ; 
ovario late ovoideo acuto glabro ; stylo exserto glabro. . 
Oban; n. 1396. 
A shrub with smooth trailing leafy branchlets. Leaves 7-9 x 
2'5-5 cm., the uppermost about 4*5 x 2 cm., drying a dark olive-green, 
the underside sparsely studded with pale straw-coloured cystoliths, 
nervation to the naked eye rather obscure; petioles from 2 mm. in 
the uppermost leaves to 1:5-2:5 em. in the lower, channelled and 
puberulous above. Inflorescences (omitting the corollas) 4-5 x 8:5 em. 
Bracts 8 mm. long, scarcely 1 mm. broad. Pedicels 8 mm. long. 
Flowers white with faint mauve shading. Posticous segment of calyx 
20 x 14 mm.; anticous 15 x 12 mm., its two terminal teeth 1-2 mm. 
long; lateral segments 7 mm. long, densely ciliated. Tube of corolla 
17 x 4 mm.; front segment 28 mm. long, other segments 22 mm., the 
front segment 12 mm., the lateral 10 mm., and the hinder pair 7 mm. : 
broad. Filaments thick and fleshy, 4:7 cm. long. Anthers 8 mm. 
long; staminodes, like the filaments dilated at the base, 3 mm. long, 
their anthers 1*5 mm. in length. Ovary2mm.long. Style 6 cm. long. 
The affinity is with B. Brownti S. Moore, a Uganda plant which 
it much resembles in leaf and inflorescence. That species, however, 
has much smaller and differently-shaped ealyx-segments and corollas, 
ete., different in several respects. I am indebted to Mr. Turrill, of 
the Kew Herbarium, for directing my attention to this as a new 
. Species of Barleria. : 
