488 cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Barleria. 



therewith from Wight's day. Lower leaves often very large and very glaucous. Ter. 

 minal spike more closely imbricated than in S. montana ; flowers rather larger, corolla- 

 lobes often 1 in. Capsule | in., 4-seeded. Seeds ^ in. diam., when ripe nearly black ; 

 always glabrous, and so differing from all other Barlerias. 



18. B. grandiflora, Dalz. in Hooh. Kew Journ. ii. 339; nearly- 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic narrowed at both ends, flowers solitary axillary, 

 outer sepals very large broadly elliptic acute, corolla 4 in. white. Dalz. Sf 

 Gibs, Bomb. Fl. 189 ; T. Anders, in Journ. lAnn. Soe. ix. 493. 



CoNCAN ; Stocks ; Mangellee Ghaut, Dalzell. 



Herbaceous ; innovations shortly minutely pubescent. Jjea-oes 5 by 2 in., often 

 glaucous ; petiole ^ in., pubescent. Bracieoles |— | in., linear-ligulate. Outer sepals 

 2 by 1 in., entire, herbaceous, pubescent within. Corolla minutely pubescent 

 without ; lobes 1| in. Capsule not seen. — Closely allied to B. Gihsoni. 



19. B. cristata^ Linn. ; Senth. Fl. SongJc. 262 ; leaves oblong or 

 elliptic acute yellow-hairy beneath, spikes capitate, outer sepals ovate- 

 acuminate or lanceolate toothed nervose, corolla Ij in. purple-blue or white. 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. 136; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 37; Wall. Cat. 2506 ; Don Prodr. 

 119; Both Nov. 8p. 315 ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 92, and in DC. 

 Prodr. -a. 229 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1615 ; Wight Ic. t. 453 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 188 ; T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 230, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 490 

 B. dichotoma, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 39 ; Wall. Cat. 2508 ; Nees in Wall. PI. 

 As. Bar. iii. 91, and in DC. I. v. 227; Dalz. S( Gibs. I. c. 188. B. ciliata, 

 Boxb. I. c. 38 ; Wall. Cat. 2507 ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 92, and in 

 DC. I. c. 228. B. napalensis & nuda, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 

 91, 92, and in DC. I. c. 228, 229. B. laciniata. Wall. Cat. 7144, and Nees 

 II. c. 



SuBTEOPiCAL India ; N.W. Himalaya, Sikkim, Ehasia, Burma, Central India, 

 Nilgherries, common. — Distbib. Gardens of India, Malaya, China, &c. 



An erect or diffuse undershrub ; branches adpressedly yellow-hairy. Leaves 3-4 

 by 1 in., or, where burnt up, 1 hy ^ in., yellow-hairy or lineolate above ; petiole |-J in. 

 Spikes ovate, often compound, dense ; bracteoles ^| in., linear-lanceolate, toothed. 

 Outer sepals f in., toothed, softly hairy, glabrous, subspinescent. Corolla-tube 

 fiinnel-shaped in the upper half; lobes \ in., ovate. Capsule J in., 4-seeded. Seeds 

 orbicular, compressed, silky. — Uniform except as to habit and indumentum. The 

 common Sikkim form has erect stems, leaves 4 in. long, glabrate lineolate above, 

 outer sepals subspinous-ciliate; a common Khasia form is similar, bot has the sepals 

 very sparingly toothed ; the West Himalaya form (JB. napalensis var. miorophylla, 

 Nees) has leaves hardly an inch long and many solitary flowers ; B. salicifolia, Heyne, 

 has a diffuse weedy habit, linear-oblong leaves and much yellow hair; the South 

 Indian plant, on hotter drier rocks, has often smaller more rigid very hairy leaves, and 

 very hairy sepals. There can be, as T. Anderson states, no doubt that this plant is 

 wild everywhere in the lower hills of N.E. and Central India ; and no doubt in the 

 Mts. of S. India aUo. 



20. B. nutans, Nees in DG. Prodr. xi. 227 ; leaves narrowly obovate 

 attenuately acuminate at both ends glabrous, spikes elongate pubescent, 

 bracts and bracteoles small lanceolate, sepals lanceolate minutely pubescent, 

 corolla 1 in. blueish purple. T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 230, and in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 493 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 264. 



Cetion, alt. 1-3000 ft. ; Gardner, Champion, &c. 



An undershrub. Leaves 8 by If in., lineolate above ; petiole J-IJ in. Spikes 

 1-5 in., often nodding, dense with flowers ; bracts and bracteoles ^-i in. Outer 

 sepals nearly ^ in., nervose, one divided ^ the way down into 2 narrow-lanceolate teeth. 

 Corolla nearly glabrous, deep blue-purple ; tube funnel-shaped upwards ; lobes J in., 

 ovate. Capsule |-1 in., 4-seeded. Seeds ^ in. diam., silky. 



