Barleria.] AcanthaceCB. 319 



outer pair ovate, inner linear-lanceolate ; cor. about i in,, 

 tube cylindrical, pubescent outside, limb i-i-^ in. diam., lobes 

 nearly equal, rounded, recurved, the two lat. ones broader ; 

 fil. of rudimentary stam. very short ; disk small, entire ; 

 capsule about f in., ovoid, with a long tapering solid beak, 

 compressed ; seeds 2. 



Open places in the dry region ; common. Fl. March, August ; bright 

 pale orange-yellow. 



Throughout Tropical Asia and Africa. 



The whole plant, and especially the root, is much used as a diuretic 

 and tonic medicine. 



\^B. biixifolia^ L. According to Anderson (in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 

 115), the specimen of this in Linna:us's own Herbarium is marked as from 

 Ceylon ; but this locality is not mentioned in his later papers. Nees (in 

 DC. Prod. ix. 241) also gives Ceylon for his var. /3 of this species on the 

 faith of a specimen from 'Forsyth' in Hb. De Candolle. It is a plant of 

 S. India, and differs from B. mysorensis in the oblong entire outer sepals. 

 Figured in Wight, Ic. t. 870.] 



2. B. mysorensis, Roth. Nov. Sp. Ind. Or. 313 (1821). Katu- 

 nelu, S. Kirimulla, Kikkiri, Ikkiri, T. 



B. buxifolia, Moon Cat. 46 (non L.). B. spina-zeylanica, Nees, I. c. 

 242. And. 1. c. 490. B. bispinosa, Nees, 1. c. 241 (non Vahl). Thw. 

 Enum. 230. C. P. 2013. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 484. 



A small shrub, intricately branched, branchlets hairy ; L 

 very numerous, closely placed, small, ^-i\ in., obovate-oval, 

 acute at base, rounded, mucronate, ciliate, nearly glabrous 

 above, hairy beneath, venation pellucid ; fl. rather large, soli- 

 tary in alt. axils, sessile, bracts o, bractlets represented by a 

 pair of slender horizontal divaricate spines \-^ in. long ; sep. 

 extremely unequal, outer pair f in., broadly ovate or rotun- 

 date, obtuse, spinous-serrate, then becoming membranous, 

 pubescent, inner pair | in., linear-subulate; hairy; cor.-tube 

 f in., narrow, slightly dilated upwards, limb i\ in. diam., 

 lobes obtuse, recurved, lat. ones rather longest ; rudimentary 

 stam. filiform, very small ; disk half as long as ov., lobed ; 

 capsule I in., enclosed in large persistent sep., ovoid-oblong, 

 acute; seeds 4. 



Dry region ; very common. Fl. Feb.-August ; bright violet-blue. 



Also in S. India. 



A very pretty little shrub when well grown, but often found on the 

 most barren rocks and flats gregariously, as at Jaffna, and then very 

 stunted and of no beauty. In the lower axils the fl. are usually abortive, 

 but the pair of spinous bractlets are always developed. 



3. B. noctiflora, Lmn.f. Suppl. PL 290 (1781). 



Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 240. Thw. Enum. 231. Trim. Syst. Cat. 

 Ceyl. 66. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 484. 



