Statice. | LXXVII. PLUMBAGINEE (OLIVER). 485 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, 12-12,000 ft., Schimper ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Kilima-njaro, last zone of vegetation, New/ (a variety with 
the small corollas more abruptly dilated above and the slender style more exserted. ) 
Orver LXXVII. PLUMBAGINEA. (By Prof. Oliver.) 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, 
tubular or infundibuliform, more or less distinctly 5-lobed. Corolla 
hypogynous, gamopetalous, hypocrateriform or petals nearly or wholly 
e, oblanceolate or obovate, imbricate. Stamens as many as and 
Opposite to corolla-lobes or petals, adnate to the tube or base of the 
claw or inserted with the petals on a narrow hypogynous ring. Ovary 
ee, 1-celled, often 5-sulcate ; styles 5, free from the base or connate 
more or less. Ovule solitary, anatropous, suspended from a long basal 
foniculus. Fruit dry, dehiscent or indehiscent ; seed with or without 
bumen ; embryo straight.—Herbs or shrubs, often maritime, with 
cauline alternate or radical rosulate leaves. Flowers capitate or spicate, 
Spikes solitary or panicled. 
__ An order chiefly affecting the seashore or saline regions, most numerous in species 
in the Mediterranean region and West Asia. 
Maritime herbs. Calyx dilated above and hyaline. Styles free 
ornearlyso . . . . we ww ee ee ee A Satie. 
Herbs or scandent. and shrubby. Calyx tubular, glandular. 
Styles connate below . . . 2. Prompaco. 
3. CERATOSTIGMA. 
Shrub, Calyx tubular, oglandular. "Styles connate below . 
1. STATICE, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 625. 
Calyx funnel-shaped ; limb plicate, hyaline or scarious, 5-toothed or 
Obed in our species. Petals 5, either free from the base or the base of 
the claw connate in a narrow ring, oblanceolate or obcaudate. Stamens 
adnate to base of the petals. Styles free from the base or nearly so. 
tricle indehiscent, or circumsciss or variously fissured.— Usually 
Perennial herbs from a woody or wiry stock, or more or less shrubby 
and diffusely branched. Leaves alternate, often rosulate or fascicled, 
“ar-spathulate to obovate and entire or nearly so in our species, rn 
others often sinuate or pinnatifid. Flowers in unilateral bractea 
Panicled spikes, 
A large maritime enus chiefly of the northern hemisphere. 
lowing Species is peculiar to our Plora. 
But one of the fol- 
" 8. tuberculata, Boiss. in DU. Prod. xii. 662. Radical leaves 
Wanting in our specimens. Scape glabrous, about 6 in. high together 
with all its branches and the peduncles closely covered with lax 
tu : foraminate, more or 
cles, the larger of which are depressed mp Shes from below 
— 21gzag, with widely divergent or recurv' 
~~ middle ; lower branchlets S erile. Spikelets 1-flowered, al 
mm short dense subscorpioid spikes collected in Hage Ta PY tin 
Panicles ; inner bract 2-3 times longer than the outer, closely investing 
