Barkria. didynamia angiospermia. 37 



axillary, generally solitary, sessile, large, yellow. Bractes 

 uncertain, when there are no thorns on the same axill there 

 are two, opposite, linear, daggered, besides an undeter- 

 nuned number of very small ones. Stamens, the long- 

 pair projecting, their filaments compressed. Sliyma entire, 

 cylindric, open, pitted. Capsule conical, two-seeded, one 

 seed in each cell. 



•2. B. hmifolin. WUhl iii. 377. 



Shrubby, spreading. Spines simple, axillary, twin. Leaves 

 round, with spinous joints. Floipers not long, sessile be- 

 tween the twin spines. 



Cara-schulli. Rheecl. Mai. ii. t. 47. bad, if for this plant. 



A native of Malabar, Mysore, &c. from the latter country 

 the seeds were sent by Dr. Buchanan in ISOO to the Bota- 

 nic garden at Calcutta, where the plants thrive well, and are 

 in blossom during the hot season. 



Stems scarcely any, but several slender, variously bent, 

 ramous, spreading branches ; yovng shoots round and downy. 

 Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, nearly round, entire, spinous, 

 pointed, villous on both sides; about half an inch long, and 

 nearly as broad. Spines in axillary pairs longer than the 

 leaves, simple, slender, white and sharp, when they are in 

 opposite axills they form a verticel of four, but it is only the 

 older branches on which they are found in both. Floiiiers 

 solitary, sessile in the forks of the spines, large, of a beautiful 

 pink tinged with violet. Stamens the two with fertile an- 

 thers considerably longer than the tube of the corol, and in 

 this species there are three short sterile filaments. Capsule 

 elliptic, with two villous seeds in each cell. 



3. B. cristata. Willd. iii. 378. 



Unarmed, shrul)by. Leaves sessile, broad, lanceolate, en- 

 tire. F/oirers axillary, sessile, one or two exterior leaflets 

 of the calyces ciliate. 



Found in gardens about Calcutta, and wild in the forests 



