506 SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON STIPULES, 
PLUMBAGINER. 
Statice Limoniwm, Linn.—The winter-bud is covered and pro- 
tected by arrested leaves, which are complete but simply reduced 
in size, particularly the lamina. The base is greatly dilated and 
triangular, so that few leaves are required to completely enclose 
the bud. 
The perfect leaves have the lamina decurrent upon a deeply 
channelled petiole, with narrow membranous margins; the base 
is greatly dilated and clasping, like the leaves of the winter-bud. 
The base long remains erect and, with the deeply channelled 
petiole, affords protection to the young leaves till they attain 
considerable size. There are no stipules, although the upper 
end of the sheath is occasionaly slightly (perhaps accidentally) 
free. One edge of the leaf is convolute in bud and the other is 
rolled over it, so that the midrib is exposed. 
In Armeria maritima, Willd., the leaves are linear, channelled, 
earinate, pubescent, gradually and considerably dilated to the 
base, membranous there at the edges, and persistent. 
Those of the winter and summer buds are very similar. They 
are crowded together and protect one another, three of them 
completely surrounding all the younger ones, while two of them 
accomplish this at the base, where they even overlap one another. 
They also remain erect for about half their length, and the 
withered ones of the previous summer also remain in position. 
Add to this the fact that the plant is densely cespitose, and it 
will be seen that the young leaves are abundantly protected, 
more so than in the case of the species of Statice. 
In 4gialitis the leaves are crowded at the end of the branches, 
roundish and fleshy, with a winged leaf-stalk. 
MYRsIneg. 
The Myrsinee are exstipulate. 
In Clavija undulata, D. Don, the petioles are thickened towards 
the base. The terminal bud is conical, covered with numerous 
very much reduced and scale-like deciduous leaves. The lower 
ones are very narrow, hardened and spiny, consisting of the 
midrib and a very narrow margin. Those which follow some- 
what larger and broader, but never develop into perfect leaves. 
The perfect and persistent leaves are crowded together around the 
apex of each season’s growth, so that the stems and branches are 
merely furnished with a terminal tuft of leaves. 
