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GENUS XXXII. BARLERIA. 



Didynamla Angiospernila. Sex . Si/st i 



Deriv. In hbnor of Rev. James Ba^relier, a Dominican a,nA 

 !&. D. of Paris. 



Gen. Chak. Calyx 4-parted; segments cruciafely opposite; 

 tapper and lower one much broader and usually longer and more 

 'exterior, entire or the lower one emarginate, rarely 2-parted, 

 middle and lateral ones narrower : corolla funnel-shaped, tube 

 with respect to the limb either short or Very loiig, limb with the 

 throat conically dilated, segments of the limb five, deeply divided, 

 of which the upper one is shorter : stamens 4, didynatmoiis, ih- 

 sert^d round the base of the tube, the greater pair often long, 

 nearly equalling the corolla, the smaller very short, in a few 

 species without anthers, sometimes the four stamens are equal,, 

 with short filaments; anthers linear, 2-celled : cells parallel j 

 muticous, shorter than the smaller stamens or imperfect : stigma 

 compressed, ftmnel-shaped, truncated ; limb entire : capsule con- 

 ical-acuminate, nearly 2-celled round the base, and there 4, or by 

 •abortion, 2-seeded : dissepiment entire, adnate : seeds covered 

 with a pellicle, which afterwards betome flbccose : retinaeula 

 thick, concave. — ^Herbaceous or jfruticose plants, of a dissimilar 

 habit, but . of a constant type : inflorescence axillary or spiked : 

 bracts in the spikes broad or narrow ; bracteoles 2, narrow, and 

 soin'etimes, as also the bracts, ciliated or spinous : corolla showy, 

 blue, white or yellowish, more or less veined. 



(i) B. c;ERutEA. {Roxb.} 



Ident. Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 39. — Dec. prod; XL p. 226. 



Spec. Char. Undershrub : stem strigose : leaves elliptic-ob- 

 long, decurrent into the "petiole, lineolate above, glabrous : spikes 

 axillary, subsessile, short, dense : bracts elliptic; somewhat atten- 

 uated at the apex, mucronulate-ciliated : upper segment of the 

 calyx emarginate : tube of the corolla elongated : flowers pale-blu«. 



Samulcottah. Upper Assam. Flowering-in the cojd season, 



(2) B. ciLiATA. (Roxh.) 



Ident. RoXb. flor. Ind. III. p. 38. — Dec* prod. XI. p. 228.-^ 

 N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Ran III. p. 92. 



Syn. B. cristata. Roth. 



Spec. Char. Fruticose, strigose : leaves lanceolate, acute, short-< 

 petioled : flowers axillary, solitary or twin, rarely iti threes, sub-; 



