Barleria.) ACANTHACE®. 811 
: smaller, the 2 lower sometimes connate. Petals connate in a 
linear corolla, with unilateral limb ; tube incurved; lobes subequal, 
: elliptic, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers 
1-celled, muticous, with mucronate connective. Carpels connate 
in a 2-celled ovar y; ovules 2 in each cell; style linear; stigma 
minutely 2-lobed. Fruit an oblong, acute capsule. Seeds 4, com- 
ie orbicular, adpressed-lepidote, the scales of many sll 
airs. 
1544, CrossanpRa UNDULFOLIA ha F. B. I. iv,492. Ruellia 
infundibuliformis F. I. iii 
n ga sie. not ed ative of the Deccan. 
An undershrub. 
707. Barleria Linn. 
Armed or unarmed, small shrubs or undershrubs; leaves oppo- 
site, entire. Flowers showy, sessile, solitary or in dense or rather 
lax spikes ; bracts and bracteoles large, leafy, or small or obsolete. 
Sepals 4, in opposite pairs, outer pair much the larger, the anterior 
sepal often emarginate, 2-lobed, or deeply 2-fid. Petals 5, connate 
in a funnel- -shaped corolla; tube e long or very long; lobes 5, sub- 
equal, ovate or elliptic, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, etek 
with oblong, 2-celled anthers, usually 2 small, rudimentary stamens 
also ee occasionally with a little pollen in their cells, often a 
rudimentary fifth stamen adde Disk large, cupular, half- 
embracing rn ovary, its margin often toothed. Carpels connate 
in a 2-celled ovary; ovules 2 in each cell; style long ; ; stigma 2-fid 
or subentire. Irwit an ovoid or oblong capsule, with 2 or 4 seeds 
below the middle. Seeds compressed, ovate, beset with wavy, 
silky, usually closely adpressed hairs. 
Prickly bush ; ye yellow ; capsule ovoid with a solid beak ; seeds 2, 
close to the b Prionitis. 
Unarmed sods, flowers blue or white; capsule oblong or narrow, 
oe ; seeds 4, or if (occasionally) 2, then near the middle :— 
acteoles 2 (bract 0), very long, linear, laxly patent, as long as the 
to outer, ovate, entire, scarious sepals ; flowers white, 2-3 in. long 
longiflora. 
Bracteoles 2 (bracts 1-2), read than the 2 outer sepals :— 
“Outer sepals ovate-acuminate, or lanceolate, subspinescently 
toothed ; iadeke ineuanesae, toothed, much smaller than 
_ outer sepals :— [p. 81 
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