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Barleria (J. Barrelier, died 1673, French botanist). Acanthaceae. Hothouse evergreen shrubs.
Fls. axillary or terminal, the calyx with 4 sepals, the 2 outer larger than the inner; corolla-tube long, its limb of 5 rounded, ovate lobes.—A genus of 150 species of tropical shrubs, mostly African, sometimes seen in fine collections of stove plants, but not offered in the American trade. Prop. by cuttings of young wood, under a bell-jar with bottom heat. B. cristate, Linn., with purplish blue fls., or rarely white, in dense spikes, is sometimes used as a bedding plant. B. strigosa, Willd., with subcoriaceous Lvs., somewhat strigose, and large blue fls. in terminal spikes, is not uncommon in botanic garden collections.—Worthy of greater notice.
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