386 XCVI. A.CANT1IACE.1!:. 



KoNKAN : Gibson in Herb. Kew. ! 



There is but one sheet in Herb. Kew. with a ticket as above. It contains 2 pieces 

 of the plant, one 10 in. the other 4 in. long, both upper portiuns of flowering branches 

 furnished with bracteoles, calyx and capsules, but no flowers. 



14. Barleria grandiflora, Dulz. in Kew Joum. Bot. v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 339. tSlirubby ; branches terete, quite glabrous except for a few 

 small hairs at the nodes. Leaves 5-7 by l|-2:^ in., elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glabrous, base acutely tapering ; main nerves 8-10 pairs ; 

 petioles ^-\ in. long. Plowers axillary, solitary ; bracteoles | in. long, 

 linear-ligulate. Onter sepals very large, herbaceous, lf-2| by l-lg in., 

 subequal, ovate-oblong, acute or subobtuse, rounded at the base, 

 glabrous outside, pubescent within, one of the sepals with 2 acutely 

 triangnlar teeth at the apex; inner sepals ^ in. long, linear, acute, 

 densely hairy. Corolla white, 3i-4| in. long, pubescent outside ; tube 

 enlarging to^^■ards the top, becoming narrowly infundibnliform ; lobes 

 I5 in. long, obovate, subacute. Capsules shorter than the calyx, 1| in. 

 long, oblong, acuminate, glandular-pubescent. Seeds | by 5 in., broadly 

 elliptic, subobtuse, compressed, glalDrous. PL B. I. v. 4, p. 488 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 189; AVooJr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 356.— 

 Flowers : Nov. 



Eare. Konkan : Stools ! ; Talkat Ghat, Dal^ell ! ; Mangeli Ghat, Dal-eJl .f Gibson. 

 Kanaka: Yollapur (N. Kanara), Talbot, 282 I -Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Barleria Lawii, T. Anderson, is often mistaken for this, but the two pi mts are quite 

 distinct. 



15. Barleria Gibsoni, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) p. 339. 

 Siiffruticose, glabrons. Leaves elliptic, acuminate, 4-7 by 2-4 in., 

 glabrous, lineolate above, glaucous beneath, base rounded or subacute ; 

 main nerves 5-8 pairs; petioles |— I in. long. Flowers solitary, axil- 

 lary, and. in terminal spikes; bracts foliaceous, 1 in. long, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute, glabrous; bracteoles | in. long, narrowly linear, 

 acute. Calyx glabrous or nearly so ; outer sepals subequal, 1-j by 

 I in., elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, usually rounded at the apex 

 and luore or less narrowed towards the base, strongly nerved and 

 reticulately veined ; inner sepals | by J^ in., linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 hairy on both sides, ciliolate, veined. Corolla glabrous, of a fine pink, 

 reaching 3| in. long; tube up to 2^ in. long, enlarged upwards ; lobes 

 obovate, rou!)ded. fStaminodes without anthers. Capsules |- in. long, 

 oblong, acuminate, glabrous. Seeds \ by ^ in., ellipsoid, black, quite 

 glabrous. El. B. L v. 4, p. 487 ; Dalz. &'Gibs. p. Ls9 ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 266; AVoodr. in. Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 356. — Flowers : Sept.-Nov. Vekn. Gura. 



Konkan: Stocks \; Glidts and Brahminwara range, Dalzcll ^- Gibson; Matheran 

 Ghdt, H. M. Birdwood. S. M. Country : hills 4 miles east of Belgaum, Ritchie, 114U.' 

 Kanaka: Ta/io^.— Distuiij. India (VV. reninsula). 



Bxrlcria hqmlinn, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1483. A small sln-ub about 

 2 ft. high, a native of the Mauritius, occasionally gro\Mi in gardens. 

 The yellow flowers are in terminal ovoid or oblong spikes with large 

 green bracts forming a bond like that of a hop. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 4-82 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. i5omb. Nat. v. 12(1S<);)) p. 3.50. 



