Barleiia.] cix. ACANTHACBa;. (C. B. Clarke.) 483 



Pm<j7 glabrous. Capsule ^-1 in., 2-seeded. Seed* ^ in. diam., much , compressed, 

 ovate. 



2. B. cuspldata, Heyne ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 93, and in 

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

 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 Peh-insula, alt. 0-2000 ft. ; Concan, Carnatic, Mysore, Coimbatore, 

 Bottler, Wight, &c. 



A lower, harsher, more prickly undershrub than S. Prionitis, with shorter inter- 

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

 axillary, distant; bracts 4-| in., usually very narrow. Calyx |-1 in., segments long 

 acuminate. Corolla \\ in., yellow. Capsule and seeds as of S. JPrionitis. — 

 Exceedingly near B. Prionitis, as Heyne has noted in Herb. Eottler. 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. Heyne has, however, named these two 

 species correctly in Bottler's Herbarium. 



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

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

 from the calyx, corolla |-1 in. lilac. Wight Ic. t. 1528 ; HooJc. Ic. PI. 

 t. 808 ; T. Anders, in Journ. linn. Soc. ix. 494 ; Eoiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 523. 

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



SciNBE; Stocks. — DiSTBlB. 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 j- in. Pedicels i-^ 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). Calm green, pubescent ; 2 outer lobes j— 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 J 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 is 

 wholly wrong. 



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

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



* 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 

 diflers in the terminal flower having 3 (or 4) bracts in place of 2.] 



t Prickly. 



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

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

 solitary pedicelled or sessile, 2 outer sepals oblong entire. Roth Nov. Sp. 

 313 ; Wall. Cat. 2504, partly ; Poxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 37 ; Wight Ic. t. 870 ; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 489. Dioranacanthus buxifolia, Oerst. 

 in Vidensk. Meddel. Ejob. 1864, 136. 



5. Deccan Pbhihsula, alt. 0-4000 ft.; Mottler; Courtallum, Wight; Concan, 

 Law, &c. 



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