Barleria.] xcviii. ACANXHACE.f: (clarke). 151 



MozazQb. Dist. Without locality, collected in 18G0, Speke ^- Grant ! 



Also extends to India. 



The branchlet, which is the African material for this species, has no flower, but 

 there is a ripe capsule. It is either B. huxifolia or excessively near thereto. The 

 small simple shining-brown acicular spines show that it certainly is not near 

 B. acanthoides. 



19. B. crassa, C. B. Clarke. Branches closely hairy with erect 

 hairs. Leaves up to 1 by J in., thick, densely hairy. Posticous calyx- 

 segment hairy, slightly toothed ; otherwise as B. ramulosa. 



Mozaxnb. X>lst. T South African Goldfields, Baines ! 



The peculiar 2-fold indumentum of the leaves is exactly as that of B. ramulosa, 

 of which this might be a dry-country form. 



20. B. longissima, Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. [l>:<r)G] 

 73. Glandular-villous. Leaves J by J in., glandular-hairy on both 

 faces ; interpetiolar spines f in, long, straight, glandular hairy. 

 Posticous sepal l-lj by ^-J in., broad-lanceolate, purple-veined, sub- 

 entire, hairy. Corolla blue or white ; tube 4 in. long. Capsule 1 in. 

 long, 4-seeded, glabrous. 



Xrile Iiand. Somaliland : near Coromma, Riva, 640 ! 



21. B. blepharoides, Lindau in Engl. Jahrh. xx. 24. Branches 

 long-pubescent. Leaves up to 1 by |^ in., densely hairy on both 

 surfaces. Inflorescences unilateral, of several flowers ; bracts and 

 bracteoles reduced to simple spines, J-J in. long, straight, stout. 

 Posticous sepal up to 1 by | in., ovate, spinous-toothed, finely reticu- 

 lated, coloured. Corolla-tube | in. long. — Lindau in Engl. 6: Pruntl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 315, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 36'J. 



XVXozaml). I>lst. German East Africa: Unyamwezi, 5'^MA/?«a??7?, 496 ! 



22. B. Marlothii, Engl, in Engl Jahrh. x. 262. Small shrub; 

 branches densely canescent with minute simple white hairs, and with 

 subsessile yellow glands, many-striate ; internodes ^-H in. long. 

 Leaves IJ by ^ in., broadly oblong, obtuse, tapering at the base, 

 minutely hairy\ Racemes unilateral, condensed, several-flowered (in 

 Welwitsch's examples 2-1 -flowered) ; sterile bracts J in. long, spine- 

 tipped, recurved, base lanceolate green canescent ; fertile bracts J in. 

 long, oblong, falcate, toothed or subentire. Posticous sepal up to 



I by ^ in., lanceolate, margin sometimes spine-toothed, sometimes 

 with one or no tooth, canescent, and with many subsessile yellow glands. 

 Corolla-tube J in. long, hardly dilated at the top. Capsule J-A in. 

 long, perfecting 4 seeds. Barleria, sp. nova B. acanthoidi, Vahl, 

 affinis, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 270. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Moesamcdes, Weluntsch, 5013! 5024! Chclla 

 Mountains, Johnston ! German South-west Africa : Herei-oland ; Otyimbinguo. Schinz, 



II ! Marloth, 1315 ! 



