286 
FLOBA OF ADEN. 
long, divided rather more than § the way down, densely pubescent ; 
segments linear-lanceolate, very acute. Corolla purplish-blue, 1 — * 1 \ inches 
long, pubescent outside ; tube in the lower part narrowly cylyndric, in 
the upper part campanulate-infundibuliform ; lobes of the limb J inch 
long broadly elliptic or suborbicular, rounded at the apex. Filaments 
glabrous. Ovary glabrous ; style pubescent. 
Capsules h , — § inch long, clavate, glabrous. Seeds suborbicular, 
nearly glabrous on the faces, margined with hygroscopic white hairs. 
Flowers: — January and .February 1889 (Schweinf.), March 1884 
(Beevor) . 
Fruits: — February 1889 (Schweinf.), March 1884 (Beevor). 
Locality : — Shum Shum plateau (Beevor) ; without locality 
(Anderson, Schweinf., Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Ava, tropical Africa, Arabia, Sind, Rajputana, 
Bundelkund, Deccan, Ceylon. 
3. Barleria Linn, 
Armed or unarmed small shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, 
entire. 
Flowers showy, sessile, solitary or in dense or rather lax spikes ; 
bracts and bracteoles large, small or 0. Calyx divided almost or quite 
to the base ; sepals 4 in opposite pairs, the outer pair much the larger. 
Corolla infundibuliform, tube elongate ; lobes 5, subequal, imbricate in 
bud. Stamens 2, fertile, with oblong 2-celled anthers; usually 2 
staminodes occasionally containing a little pollen also present, and 
often a rudimentary 5th. Disk large, cupular, half embracing the ovary, 
often with a toothed margin. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; 
style long, stigma 2-fid or subentire. 
Capsule ovoid or oblong, with 2 or 4 seeds below the middle. Seeds 
compressed, ovoid, usually clothed with wavy silky closely appressed 
hairs. 
Species about 120. 
Distribution : — Mostly in Africa and Tropical Asia, a few in 
Tropical America. 
1. Barleria Hildebramltii S. Moore in Journ. of Botany XV 
(1877) 69 ; Kew Bull. (1894) 338. 
Description : — Stem divaricate, lignose, terete, glabrescent ; young 
branches densely whitish tomentose with scattered strigose, yellowish 
hairs. Leaves oblong, slightly 'obtuse, stellately whitish-tomentose, dis- 
tinctly nerved on the lower surface, the nerves covered with strigose 
yellowish hairs, \ — | inch long, £ inch broad. 
