40 DiDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMiA. Barleriu. 



pointed, waved, a little scabrous, from four to five incliei^long-, 

 and from two to two and a balf broad. Spikes short, axil- 

 lary and terminal, recurved, bearing- the flowers on the upper 

 or convex side. Bracfes one or two to each flower, placed 

 on the outside, oblong, pointed, nervous, waved, dentate, ci- 

 liate. Floicers 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. Filamenla, a fifth 

 sterile, between the short pair of stamens. Capsule litlet 

 more than half the length of the exterior calyx. Seeds two 

 in each valve. 



6. B. loiiijiflora. Willd. iii. 379. 



Unarmed, shrubby. Leaves ovate-cordate, entire, seri- 

 ceous. Exterior leaflets of the calyx cordate, scariose. Tube 

 of the corol long. 



A singularly looking, shrubby species, a native of hills, 

 and the lower region of mountains. 



Stem very short, woody ; bark whitish ; branches very nu- 

 merous, below opposite, above alternate, spreading, 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 a half broad. Flowers axillary, soli- 

 tary, alternate, short ped uncled, white, in the opposite axill is 

 a branchlet, 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, cordate, reticulated, chafty, 

 waved ; the interior two also opposite, but many times small- 

 er, 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-Iobed. Stiyma clavate, 

 somewhat three-sided, funnel-formed, glutinous. Seeds four, 

 two in each cell, silky. 



