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3. Barleria buxifolia, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 636. A low 

 priokly leaFy undershrub ; stems and branches terete, clothed with 

 spreading hairs. Leaves ^-| by |-| in., subsessile, elUptie or obovate, 

 sometimes almost siiborbicuLir, acute or obtuse, mucronate, hairy, base 

 usually acute; petioles 0-^ iu. long. Flowers axillary, solitary ; brae's 

 in the axils ot the leaves reduced to sharp slender straight simple spines 

 2-| in. long; pedicels very variable in length, |-1| in. long, slender. 

 Calyx hairy, divided almost to the base ; outer sepals in Hower ^-^ 

 by -1— ^ in., mucronate (one of them souietimes with 2 or 3 spinous 

 teeth at tlie apex), elongating in fruit, i-eticulately veined, ciliate ; 

 inner sepals ^-^ by yu~TV i^-» I'near-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 1-1$ in. 

 long, rose-colored or white ; lobes \ in. long, broadly obovate, obtuse, 

 veined. Capsules ^-^ in. long, 4-seeded. Seeds ^ in. long, broadly 

 ovoid, silky-hairy. Yl B. I. v. 4, p. 483; Grab. Cat. p. 160. 



Konkan: Law I, Nimyuo ex Graham.— DiSiTris. ludia (W. Peninsula). 



4. Barleria acanthoides, Vald, Si/mb. v. 1 (1790) p. 47. A 

 stunted prickly branched undershrub scarcely 1 ft. high ; branches 

 terete, I'.oary with short velvety pubescence. Leaves dark-green, f-lg 

 by j-^ in,, oblong or obovate, obtuse, mucronate, pubescent, attenuated 

 at the base ; main nerves about 5 pairs ; petioles 0-| in. long. Tlowers 

 in unilateral condensed racemes often reduced to a single flower ; bracts 

 |-| in. long, membranous, spinous-pointed and spinous-pinnatiiid 

 or reduced to flattened pinnatitid spines. Calyx divided almost to 

 the base ; outer sepals subequal, f by j\ in., broadly ovate, acute, 

 strongly mucronate (one of the pair usually with a stronger mucro than 

 the opposite one), very conspicuously nerved and reticulately veined, 

 soon turning yellowish-brown ; inner sepals | by ^V '^•' lanceolate. 

 Corolla puliescent outside, pure white, 2|-3| in. long or even longer, 

 opening at sunset {Stocks); tube 2|-3l by"|-^ in., cylindric, slightly 

 enlarged just below the limb ; lobes \-^ in. long, ovate. Capsules | in. 

 long, ellipsoid, attenuated at both ends, glabrous. Seeds ^ in. long, 

 broadlv ovoid, compressed, silky-hairy. Fl. 13. I. v. 4, p. 484 ; Aitch. 

 Pb. ctSind PL p. 112; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 266; Woodr. in 

 Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 356.— Flowers : Oct. 



In the Borabav Presidency confined to Sind. Sind : Daliell, 281, Stocks, 5081, 

 BholaPuranl, Woodrow; Jem.idar ka Lancia near Karachi, Stocksl—'Diu'VRiR. India 

 (Panjab) ; Beluchistan, Abj'ssiiiia, Nubia, Eg\ pt. 



5. Barleria Hochstetteri, Nees, in DC. Prodr. v. 11 (1847) 

 p. 231. A low rigid much-branched shrub 6-12 in. high, more or less 

 spinescent ; older branches woody, much intricately twisted, the younger 

 ones herbaceous, shortly velvety-canescent. Leaves |— L| by 3-3 m-j 

 oblong, obtuse, entire, more or less hairy with long appressed hairs, 

 liase tapering ; petioles |-| in. long. Flowers pedicelled, usually in 

 threes at the apex of shor't peduncle-like branchlets ; pedicels \-^ in. 

 long, pubescent, those of the lateral flowers often bracteate about 

 the middle with 1 or 2 small linear bracts. Calyx divided to the base ; 

 outer sepals green, pubescent with glandular hairs, the larger of the 

 pair ^ in. long, nearly | in. broad, ovate, the opposite sepal slightly 

 shorter and narrower, acutely 2-fld at the apex ; inner sepals whita, 



\ in. long, Jq in. broad, lanceolate, very acute, hairy on the back 



