Barleria.] cix. ACAXTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 483 



Pistil glabrous. Capsule f-1 in., 2-seeded. Seeds % in. diam., much compressed, 

 ovate. 



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2. B. cuspidata, Heyne; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 93, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 239 ; glabrous, leaves subsessile narrowly oblong-lanceolate 

 spine-tipped, flowers axillary scarcely spiked at the end of the branches, 

 bracts lanceolate acuminate spine-tipped, bracteoles minute bristles or 0. 

 Wall. Cat. 2499 ; Wight Ic. t. 451 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 490. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 0-2000 ft. ; Concan, Carnatic, Mysore, Coimbatore, 

 Eottler, Wight, &c. 



A lower, harsher, more prickly undershrub than B. Prionitift, with shorter inter- 

 nodes. Leaves 2^ by ^ in., occasionally 1 by in., elliptic, entire. Flowers nearly all 

 axillary, distant; bracts ^-f in., usually very narrow. Calyx f-1 in., segments long 

 acuminate. Corolla 1 in., yellow. Capsule and seeds as of B. Prionitis. 

 Exceedingly near B. Prionitis, as Heyne has noted in Herb. Rottler. Nees erroneously 

 says the corolla is pale blue ; does not allow it to have been B. cuspidata, Heyne, 

 but says it is part of B. noctiflora, Heyne. Heyue has, however, named these two 

 species correctly in Bottler's Herbarium. 



3. B. Hochstetteri, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 231; pubescent, leaves 

 elliptic or oblong entire, flowers pedicelled, bracteoles small narrow remote 

 from the calyx, corolla f-1 in. lilac. Wight Ic. t. 1528 ; Hook. Ic. PL 

 t. 803; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 494; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 523. 

 Barlerites Hochstetteri, Oerst. in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. 1854, 137. 



SCINPE; Stocks. DISTRIB. S.W. Asia, N.E. Africa. 



A woody, harsh undershrub, scarcely 1 foot high, sometimes spinescent. Leaves 



2 by |-1 in., obtuse, base narrowed ; petiole ^ in. Pedicels ^-^ in., pubescent, often 



3 on an apparent peduncle, the 2 leaves at their base much reduced, usually petioled, 

 oblong or sublinear ; bracteoles about the middle of the pedicel 2, 1, or 0, very small, 

 linear (? bracts). Caliix green, pubescent ; 2 outer lobes J in., triangular-ovate, 

 2 inner very small. Stamens 2, the 3 smaller nearly obsolete. Disc prominent, 

 cup-shaped. Ovary hairy; stigma scarcely bifid. Capsule nearly \ in., pubescent, 

 ovoid, rostrate, 2-seeded near the base. Seeds densely silky. Oersted attributes to 

 his very bad. genus Barlerites a unilateral linear stigma and glabrous seeds, which \ 

 wholly wrong. 



Submenus 2. Eubarleria. Capsule oblong or narrowly ellipsoid, 4- 

 rarely 2- seeded at pr near the middle by the suppression of the 2 lower 

 seeds. 



* Bract 0, bracteoles 2 divaricate long -linear or spines, 2 outer sepals 

 large. [Each flower on the sympodal raceme is in the axil of one of two 

 opposite bracteoles, and the terminal flower also is apparently 2-bracteolate ; 

 by comparing such species as B. longiflora & tomentosa, it is seen that it 

 is the bracteoles that are really aborted in this section. The next section 

 differs in the terminal flower having 3 (or 4) bracts in place of 2.J 



t Prickly. 



4 B. buxifolia, Linn. ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 94, and in DC. 



Prodr. xi. 241 ; leaves small broadly elliptic obtuse mucronate hairy flowers 

 solitary pedicelled or sessile, 2 outer sepals oblong entire.. Roth **& 

 313; Wall. Cat. MM, partly- Koxb. Fl. Ind. m. 3,; Wight Jr. t 8/0; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. jSoc. ix. 489. Dicranacanthus buxifolia, Ocrst. 

 in Vidensk. Meddel. Ejob. 1854, 136. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 0-4000 ft.; Eottler; Courtallum, Wight- Concan, 

 Law, &cl I i 2 



