1. Barleria micans Nees Barleria micans Nees; Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph, 146. 1844. Micans: sparkling, glittering, in allusion to the attractively bracted inflorescence. Type local- ity: Taboga Island, Bay of Panama, Panama. Barleria discolor Nees; Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 146. 1844. Discolor: varie- gated, of various colors, in allusion to the leaf blades green above and silvery beneath. Type locality: Nicoya, Costa Rica. Herbs, sometimes subligneous at base, 1 to 1.5 meters high; stems glabrous or strigose, terete; leaf blades ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 10 to 25 cm. long, usually about 4 to 5 cm. wide, long-acuminate at apex, attenuate or abruptly decurrent at base, sparingly strigose or hirtellous, the leaves subtending the spike subsessile; petioles 1 to 2 cm. long; flowers borne in a large dense terminal spike, the bracts ovate- lanceolate to broadly ovate, 2 to 3 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, acute or obtuse, tipped by a small spine, chartaceous, veiny, more or less strigose, the margins with spinelike teeth up to 3 mm. long, some- times drying bluish; bractlets narrowly linear, 1.5 to 2 cm. long; calyx segments very unequal, the anterior segment oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.4 cm. wide, bidentate at apex, the posterior segments slightly longer and narrower, acuminate at apex, the lateral segments narrowly lanceolate, about half as long as the others; corolla 5 to 5.5 cm. long, yellow, turning bluish purple when dry, the tube slender, the lobes oblanceolate, subequal, spreading; capsules cylindric, slender- pointed at apex, glabrous, 4-seeded. Rocky banks and waste places in general; usually in more or less shaded situations. Colombia northwards to southern Mexico. ATLÁNTICO: Hacienda Riodulce, Los Pendales, Dugand & Jaramillo 4154 (US). Piojó, Bro. Elias 735 (US). Sahagún, Pennell 4104 (GH, NY). Tubará, Dugand & Jaramillo 4061 (US). SANTANDER: Between Bucaramanga and El Jaboncillo, Río Suratá Valley, Killip & Smith 16355 (NY, US).