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Barleria (This genus embraces about)

This genus embraces about sixty species of herbs and shrubs, mostly natives of Asia and tropical and South Africa, the few American ones being principally Mexican or Columbian. To those described on p. 158, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. repens (creeping). fl. axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly pedicellate; corolla pale, rather dull rosy-red, 2in. long, the tube funnel-shaped, the limb 1 1/2in. in diameter, of five oblong lobes. July. l. opposite, appearing as if fascicled, 1in. to 2 1/2in. long, elliptic-ovate or obovate; petioles 1/6in. to 1/2in. long. Stems 1ft. to 2ft. long, prostrate. Eastern tropical Africa, 1875. (B. M. 6954.)