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and handsome, and are believed to have been the model on which 

 the capital of the Corinthian columns was formed. At Nazareth 



" the painted grouse 

 JJays her eggs there in carved Acanthus leaves." Sir E. Arnold. 



" To watch the emerald-coloured water falling 

 Through many a wov'n Acanthus wreath divine." Tennyson. 



The plant being thus well known gave its name to the order. 



12. BARLERIA. 



H. has 26 species of this beautiful and well-marked genus, and 

 ascribes 14 of them to W. India, but 7 of these are not given by D. 



1. B. prionitis. Shrubby and thorny, leaves elliptic, 

 narrow at both ends, bracts subulate, larger calyx segments 

 ovate entire, spinous-pointed, flowers axillary, spiked or 

 whorled, buff-coloured, soon falling off. Kholeta, kalsunda, 



pivala kordnta. 



Konkan and the lower Ghauts, very common. Also in Guzerat 

 and the Deccan. Tropical India (H.). 



H. has * B. cuspidata in the Konkan, " exceeding near to B. prio- 

 nitis, but a lower, harsher and more prickly undershrub." 



2. It. montana. A large smooth plant, leaves narrow ovate, 

 flowers large and beautiful, rose-coloured, mauve or blue, solitary 

 and sessile in the axils, larger calyx segments elliptic entire, 

 smaller and bracts very small linear, seeds densely silky. 

 Kolista, ikhari. 



Bombay (where I have seen no good specimens), Konkan and the 

 Ghauts : not uncommon. H. has * B. Gibsoni over a great part of 

 the Presidency " so exceedingly like the last that it has always been 

 mixed therewith," but with smooth seeds, " thus differing from all 

 others of the genus." Mr. Birdwood has this under the name of 

 Gura at Matheran, with corolla tube white, limb pale lilac. 



3. B. grandiflora. A shrub or tall herb nearly all smooth, 

 leaves elliptic acuminate, flowers pure white, 4 inches long, 

 solitary in the opposite axils, larger calyx segments ovate 

 acute, smaller ones and bracts, which are half way up the 

 pedicels, subulate. 



This is said to be wild in the Konkan and Ghauts, and is in Mr. 

 Birdwood's Matheran list. I have only seen it planted. Two other 

 species, * B. longiflora and B. Lawii, appear to be very much like it, 

 but both are hairy : the first had ovate leaves rounded at the base 

 (Matheran, Khandalla, 6?.), the second elliptic leaves narrowed at 

 both ends. The Ghauts, &c., Law (H.). 



