BARLERIA (named after J. Barrelier, a French botanist of the seventeenth century). ORD. Acanthaceae. A genus of interesting and ornamental stove evergreen shrubs. Flowers axillary or terminal; calyx four-sepaled, the two outer larger than the others. They thrive best if grown in loam and peat, with a little rotten dung added. Propagated by cuttings made of the young wood, and placed in a similar compost, under a bell glass, in stove temperature, with bottom heat. BARLERIA flava (yellow).* fl. yellow, aggregate, terminal, tubular; bracts very narrow, setose. Summer. l. lanceolate, hairy, entire. Plant unarmed. h. 3ft. India, 1816. SYN. BARLERIA mitis. (B. M. 4113.) BARLERIA Gibsoni (Gibson's). fl. pale purple, rather large, sub-terminal. Winter. l. ovate or oblong-lanceolate. India, 1867. A glabrous stove shrub, of branched habit. (B. M. 5628.) BARLERIA Leichtensteiniana (Leichtenstein's).* fl. very curious; spikes axillary, 2in. to 3in. long, ovoid or oblong, consisting of a large number of closely packed overlapping bracts, all turned to the fore or lower part of the spike; bracts ovate-acuminate, mucronate, spine-toothed, one-ribbed, wit' prominent and curved veins, and 1in. to 1 1/2in. long. l. opposite, 1in. to 2in. long, linear-lanceolate, entire, mucronate, tapering at the base into a very short stalk. Branches slender, virgate, sub-angular. South Africa, 1870. This plant is covered over its whole surface with close, white, hoary down. (G. C. 1870, p. 73.) BARLERIA longifolia (long-leaved). fl. white; spines of whorls six. Summer. l. ensiform, very long, rough. h. 2ft. India, 1781. This is a biennial. BARLERIA lupulina (Hop-headed). fl. yellowish; spikes ovate; bracts ovate, concave, imbricated. August. l. lanceolate, quite entire; spines simple, spreading. h. 2ft. Mauritius, 1824. BARLERIA Mackenii (MacKen's).* fl. purple, large, in a terminal raceme. Spring. l. recurved, narrow-ovate, or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, petioled. Natal, 1870. (B. M. 5866.) BARLERIA mitis (small). Synonymous with BARLERIA flava. BARLERIA prionitis (Prionitis-like). fl. orange; spines axillary, pedate, in fours. Summer. l. quite entire, lanceolate-ovate. h. 3ft. India, 1759. BARLERIA 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.)