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Barleria (§ Prionitis) waggana, sp. n. Fruticulosa caule 

 cinereo-pubescente, foliis sessilibus, cuneato-oblongis, interclum 

 cuneatis, apice rotuudatis mucronatis, dorso dense appresso-villosis ; 

 spinis breviter stipitatis, stepissime 4-fidis ; floribus apice ramorum 

 dense aggregatis ; bracteis bracteolisque dorso et margine hirsutulis 

 oblougo-linearibus longe acuminatis superioribus subulatis, omni- 

 bus apice puugeutibus ; floribus inter mediocres sessilibus, sepalis 

 exterioribus ovatis, interioribus lanceolatis longissime acuminatis 

 apice pungentibus, margine scabride-ciliatis ; corollae tubo longo 

 cylindrico, lobis suba?qualibus, lobo antico spathulato, lobis 4 pos- 

 ticis oblanceolato-cuneatis obtusis ; staminodiis 2 brevibus glabris ; 

 ovario glabro. 



Hab. Wagga Mountain, Mrs. E. Lort Phillips. 



Described from a single specimen consisting of a small branch 

 about six inches long. Leaves on short lateral flowering branch- 

 lets, and below the inflorescence 1-75 to 2-5 cm. long by G to 9 mm. 

 broad, covered, especially on the back, with short stiff white 

 appressed hairs. Axillary spines white, branching dichotomously 

 above a pedicel of 2-4 mm. into four (rarely three) arms, which 

 reach 2 cm. in length. Flowers crowded into small shortly hairy 

 pungent heads, made up of very short dichasia, the two lateral 

 flowers of which abort. Lowermost bracts foliaceous, upper be- 

 coming narrow and more pungent, passing into the subulate 

 bracteoles ; length (including bracteoles) from lh-1 cm. Outer 

 calyx-segments 14 mm. long by 2-5 mm. broad, inner 13 mm. long 

 by 1*5 mm. Corolla-tube 12 mm. long by 2 mm. in diameter; 

 lobes about 1 cm. long by -5 cm. wide. Filaments of long perfect 

 stamens 1-5 cm. long, anther 2 mm., staminodes 2 mm., including 

 the minute anther. Hypogynous disc asymmetrical, with an irre- 

 gularly crenate margin. iStyle 2 cm. Ovary 3 mm. long. 



Probably near B. quadrispina Lindau, which I have not seen, 

 and of which flowers and fruit are unknown! The leaves are, 

 however, larger, with a tendency to a lanceolate shape. 



Barleria (Prionitis) mucronifolia Lindau in Ann. R. Istit. 

 Botan. Roma, vi. 71. xi small branch bearing two lateral in- 

 florescences, from the flowers of which the corolla has dropped, 

 though the fruit is still unripe, apparently belongs (from the de- 

 scription) to this species, collected by Riva near Hamari, in Somali- 

 land. It was found at Dimoleh byF. Gillett and G. P. V. Aylmer. 

 Unripe fruit 9 mm. long, including short beak ; black, glabrous, 

 with two superposed compressed black seeds in each chamber. 



A fragment of the same plant occurs on a sheet of Forskohl 

 ("ex oriente") along with />'. aauitlundcs Vahl. ' 



Barleria (^^ Somalia) Phillipseae, sp. n. Fruticulosa foliis sub- 

 sessilibus elliptico-oblongis apice rotuudatis, in margine et costa 

 media cum pills bibrachiatis albis strigosis ; floribus parvis paucis 

 solitariis axillaribus subsessilibus ; bracteolis lanceolatis ; calycis 

 laciniis antero-posterioribus ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, lateralibus 

 duplo brevioribus subulatis ; corolla inconspicue bilabiata, lobo 

 antico majore suborbiculari vix retuso, lobo postico breviter et 



