Barleria pungens L.F.

Harsh, prickly; branches 10-46 cm [as '4-18 in.'] long, hispid towards the tips; leaves 0.5-1 in. long, sub-sessile, ovate, acute, spine-tipped, mostly rounded at the base, hispid beneath at least on the nerve, margin not (or most obscurely) spine-toothed; racemes 8-1-flowered, axillary; outermost bracts (or axillary spines) mostly dilated, pinnatifid toothed near the base; posticous sepal ovate, up to 0.75 by 0.3 in., spine-tipped, papery, veined, with spinous teeth on the margin; corolla blue; tube 0.6-1 in. long; capsule 0.5-0.6 by 0.25 in., ellipsoid, flattened, glabrescent, 4-seeded.