382 XC\1. ACAMlIACi:.!. 



Corolla ^-| in. long, lilac ; lobes oblong, rounded, emarginate. Ovary 

 hairy. Capsules | in. long, ovoid with a solid beak, pubescent, 2-seeded 

 near the base. Seeds ^ in. in diam., suborbicular, silky-hairy, black. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 483; Wight, Icon. t. 1528; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. 

 p. 112; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 523; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 266 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 356.— Plowers : 

 Oct. 



SiND : Balsell, 31 :, Stock.% 501 .', Blwla Varan ! ; Jemadar ka Lauda near Karachi, 

 Stocks'.. — DiSTRiB. Beluchistan, Arabia, Nubia, Abjssiaia. 



6. Barleria tomentosa, Rotli, Nov. PL Sp. (1821) p. 314. A small 

 shrub ; branches terete, clothed with glandular and simple hairs. Leaves 

 ]|-3 by |— Ig in., ovate, acuminate, more or less fulvous-bairy on both 

 sides, densely so on the nerves beneatli, lineolate, base usually rounded ; 

 petioles -^-| in. long. Flowers solitary or 2-3 on the top of an axillary 

 peduncle ; bracteoles foliaceous, |-| in. long, lanceolate, clothed with 

 glandular hairs. Calyx scarious, hairy at the base outside, conspicuously 

 veined ; outer sepals with hairy midrib and ciliaf^e margins, the longer 

 "I by \ in., obovate-oblong, acute, apiculate, the opposite sepal slightly 

 narrower, acute, apiculate or sometimes 2-fid ; inner sepals ^3 in. long, 

 jLj- in. wide, lanceolate, acute. Corolla reaching 2^ in. long; tube 

 l-J in. long, narrow, cyliudric below, infundibuliform for | in. below 

 the limb ; lobes of the limb | in. long, elliptic-oblong, acute. Capsules 

 ■| in. long, obovoid, pointed at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 

 4-seeded, the 2 lower seeds sometimes suppressed. Seeds i in. long, 

 appressedly silky-hairy. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 485 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 356.— Flowers : Nov. 



Rare. Bcdzell without locality in Herb. Kew. S. M. Country : Badami, Woodrow, 

 — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



7. Barleria cristata, Xwn. ;S)j. PI. (1753) p. 636. Herbaceous; 

 stems more or less appressedly hair}'', densely hairy at the nodes. 

 Leaves 21-4 by 1-lf in., elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate, hairy on 

 both sides, lineolate above, base tapering ; main nerves 6-7 pairs ; 

 petioles ^-g in. long. Flowers in axillary and terminal short ovate 

 dense spikes ; bracteoles conspicuous, | in. long, linear, acute, mem- 

 branous, veined, pubescent, with ciliate and often dis<tantly toothed 

 margins. Calyx hairy at the base; outer sepals membranous, whitish, 

 the longer 1 in. long by g in. broad (within the marginal spines), 

 broadly lanceolate, long-acuminate, mucronate and with subspinous 

 bristle-tipped teeth on the margins, the opposite sepal similar but slightly 

 narrower and | in. long, both with raised conspicuous nerves running 

 out into the marginal spines and with raised conspicuous reticulate 

 venation between the nerves, pubescent ; inner sepals ^ by y^^ in., 

 linear-lnnceolate, acute, veined. Corolla pubescent outside, blue, 1-1|- 

 in. long; upper part of the tube widely intundibuliform ; lobes | in. 

 long, obovate-oblong, rounded. Capsules | in. long, elli])soid, acute at 

 both ends, 4-seeded. Seeds \ in. in diam., orhicular, compressed, 

 silky-hairv. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 488; Grab. C:.t. p. 160 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. ]88 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 266 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 356: Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 399.— Flowers : 

 Deo. Veti>'. Golran, 



