2. Barleria cristata L. FIGURE 39 Barleria cristata L. Sp. Pl. 636. 1753. Cristata: cristate or crested, in allusion to the pectinate outer calyx segments. Type locality: India. An ample description is given by Linnaeus. Herbaceous or suffrutescent at base, up to 1 meter high, the stems subterete, both strigose and puberulous, the minute hairs white and curved, the appressed ones yellowish; leaf blades ovate-lanceolate, up to 10 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, acute at apex, narrowed at base, entire, strigose or both strigose and puberulent, the hairs often confined to costa and lateral veins; petioles about 1 cm. long; flowers solitary or paired, subsessile, borne in the axils of the leaves, or occasionally crowded in a headlike cluster at the ends of the branchlets; bracts linear-lanceolate, about 12 mm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, strigose; outer segments of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, veiny, spine- tipped, hirtellous, pectinate-toothed, the inner segments lanceolate, acuminate, 8 or 9 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, whitish, puberulous; corolla up to 6 cm. long, violet with paler spots at throat, finely pubescent, the tube hypocrateriform, straight, gradually enlarged from about 3 mm. in diameter at middle to 12 mm. at throat, the limb about 3 cm. broad, the lobes nearly equal, rounded, the 2 upper ones erect; 2 of the stamens perfect, reaching to mouth of tube, and 2 imperfect and much shorter; styles exserted; capsules subcylindric, about 12 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, glabrous, 4-seeded. VERNACULAR NAME: Lila (Dugand & García Barriga 2535). Gardens. Found occasionally as an escape throughout tropical America. ATLÁNTICO: Barranquilla, Dugand & Garcia-Barriga 2535 (US); Bro. Elias 502 (US); 753 (US); 980 (US).