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Stem terete, glabrous, branching. Leaves 2-4 in. long, 4-13 in. 
broad, lanceolate elliptic or oblong -lanceolate, acute, acutely 
tapering into a short petiole at the base, glabrous and green on 
both sides ; axils often furnished with a pair or a tuft of four 
slender bristle-like spines 1}-2 lin. long. Flower-spikes 14-2} in. 
long, about 3 in. in diam.; excluding the lower corollas, dense, 
many-flowered. Bracts imbricate, 5-7 lin. long, 2-5 lin. broad 
near the apex, spathulate-obovate or cuneate-obovate, very obtuse 
or slightly emarginate at the slightly recurved, very shortl 
mucronulate apex, slightly, complicate, rather rigid, prominently 
3-5-nerved on the back, white-pruinose on both sides, glandular 
on the back, adpressed-pubescent on the nerves and ciliate on the 
margins, with moderately long hairs, thinly and minutely puberulous 
on the inner face. Bracteoles 4 in. long, % lin. broad, linear, 
pungent-acute, keeled and adpressed-pubescent on the back, ciliate, 
Sepals four, about 5 lin. long, the outer 2 lin., the inner 1 lin. broad 
at the base, lanceolate, attenuate to a very acute, almost pungent 
point, glandular on the back in the upper part, otherwise glabrous. 
Corolla orange-yellow, puberulous outside and about the insertion 
of the stamens within the tube, subbilabiate, the limb being divided 
80 that one lobe is free from the tube about 4 in. below the other 
four ; tube } in. long, narrow cylindric ; lobes 5 lin. long, 3-34 lin. 
broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Stamens two, inserted above the 
middle of the corolla-tube, 6-7 lin. long, exserted ; filaments filiform, 
slightly puberulous ; anthers obtusely sagittate, 14 lin. long; cells 
equal. Ovary and the filiform style glabrous; stigma obscurely 
conical, with a very slightly marked ring around its base. 
Kwebe, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Luyard, 5A. 
_Another specimen, No. 5, collected by Mrs. Lugard by _ the 
Botletle River, at Moremi’s Drift, is considered by her to belong 
to the same species. If this is the case, it was probably gathered 
from a starved plant, as most of the leaves have fallen and the 
flower-spikes are reduced to 1-4 flowers, which although similar in 
form and colour are smaller than in the plant I have described ; the 
cts also are mostly acute and not whitened beneath. The 
material, however, is too unsatisfactory for exact determination, 
B, spathulata is allied to B. Prionitis, Linn., but very distinct in 
appearance, being readily recognised by its very obtuse, cuneate- 
obovate, pruinose bracts, smaller corolla, and by the stamens being 
inserted towards the top of the corolla-tube and not at the middle as 
they are in B. Prionitis, Linn. 
*Barleria Lugardii, C. B. Clarke in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 161. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 128; Mrs. Lugard, 106. 
Perennial, 1-1} ft. high ; flowers white. 
Crabbea velutina, S. Moore. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 131; Mrs. Lugard, 96. - 
Perennial, growing under rocks and trees, in shade ; flowers white. 
‘Susticia leptocarpa, Lindau. 
— Hills, 3,200 ft., Lugard, 129 ates sae 138. iad 
Annual, growing to a foot in height ; flowers pale mauve, spotte 
With dark og : 
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