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STÁTÍCE arborea. 
Tree Statice. 
PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PLUMBAGINACE/E. 
STATICE. Bot. Reg. fol. 1450. 
S. arborea; caule arborescente, foliis ovatis obtusis mucronatis basi angustatis, 
paniculá composità terminali, ramis panicule alato-ancipitibus. Willd. 
enum. 1.337. R. $ S. syst. vi. 797. 
It is hopeless in works of this kind to do justice to the 
beauty of a plant like this; and I am unfortunately obliged 
to apologize for the annexed figure being even more imper- 
fect than it need to be, owing to the want of skill of a new 
engraver employed to execute it. This is the more vexatious 
as the drawing which had been prepared was excellent of its 
kind, and because the plant itself is probably the most 
strikingly ornamental of all that are in cultivation as green- 
house plants. At one of those great meetings in the garden 
of the Horticultural Society, which have given so remarkable 
an impulse to the art of gardening, there was a specimen of 
this species, from the nursery of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 
and Co. six feet high, and covered with large clusters of 
flowers, the brilliancy of whose blue, neither precious stones 
nor metallic preparations could even approach; for which a 
gold medal, an unusual mark of distinction, was awarded. 
The introduction of this noble plant to our gardens is 
due, I believe, to P. B. Webb, Esq. When Von Buch 
visited the Canaries he only found it in gardens about 
Orotava, and he believed it to be extinct in its native places; 
and in truth it is amongst the most local and rare of all 
known plants. It is only on a few rocks, called the islets of 
February, 1839. D 
