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repens, Nees, DC. "Prod." xi. 230; (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 6954).— 

 Tropical East Africa. A prostrate plant. Leaves elliptic to 

 obovate, up to 2^ inches long ; flowers pink, axillary, solitary ; 

 sepals 4, the two outer J inch long, ovate, ciliate, entire, 

 reticulated, two inner small, subulate ; corolla 2 inches long, tube 

 funnel-shaped. 



StrigfOSa, Willd., " Sp. PI." iii. 379. — India, and much cultivated 

 there. Leaves ovate, decurrent on the petioles ; spikes very dense, 

 many-flowered, 1-3 inches long, always secund ; outer sepals 1 inch 

 long, nerved, ovate, ciliate, strigose ; flowers 2 inches long, blue. 



tomentosa, Roth., "Nov. Sp. PI." 314. — South India. Leaves 

 elliptic ; racemes 1-3-flowered ; calyx, outer sepals 1^ inch long, 

 oblong, acute, entire, scarious, purple-veined, two inner half as 

 long ; flowers rose-coloured, tube 2 inches long, funnel-shaped 

 upwards. 



Barleria montana, Nees, "Wall. PL As. Rar." iii. 92 (fig. 

 Bedd. "Ic. PL Ind. Or." t. 257), and B. grandiflora, Dalz. ex 

 Hook. "Kew Jour." ii. (1850), 339— both from the Western Ghats 

 in India — are well worth introducing into our conservatories on 

 account of their very fine flowers ; the latter has flowers 4^ inches 

 long. B. noctiflora, L. " Supp." 290, from the dry plains 

 about Coimbatore (not Nilgiris, as stated in "Flora Indica "), 

 and B. longrflora, L. " Supp." 239, with very long-tubed flowers, 

 from the plains of Tinnevelly, are very interesting and attractive 

 species that might well grace our conservatories. There could 

 not be much difficulty in procuring the seed of these four 

 species. 



Barleriola 



SOlanifolia, DC, " Prod." xi. 242. — San Domingo. Leaves oval- 

 oblong, angularly dentate, entire, glabrous ; flowers axillary, sessile, 

 ternate ; bracteoles lanceolate, subulate, subspinescent ; flowers 

 pale rose, corolla tube narrow-filiform, ^ inch long, lobes obovate, 

 cuneate, subequal. 

 Beloperone 



ang-UStiflora, Stapf in "Kew Bull." 1908, i. p. 20.— Tropical 



America. Small herb. Leaves opposite, decussate, linear to 

 lanceolate, midrib above strigose with close-pressed hairs ; Spikes 

 terminal, nearly 1 inch long', strobiliform ; bracts ciliate with 

 long hairs, the outer ones broad-obovate, inner narrow-linear ; 

 flowers violet-pink, about 1 inch long, tube curved, linear, 

 widening just below the apex, limb bilabiate, the upper lobe 

 emarginate, lower 3-parted, a white pinnatifid mark down the 

 centre of the middle lobe. Scarcely of more than botanical 

 interest, but several plants in a small pot make rather a pretty 

 show. It comes up self-sown all over one of my stoves, 

 atropurpurea, Nees in " Mart. PI. Bras." ix. 135.— Brazil. 

 Leaves oval, 6 7 inches long, 3 inches broad, subsessile ; flowers 

 in a terminal, elongated thyrse, purple-coloured. 



