486 LXXVII. PLUMBAGINEZ (OLIVER). { Statice. 
the flower, obtuse with a scarious margin. Calyx glabrous; margin 
undulate-lobate with 5 mucroniform teeth. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Blanco, ‘covering the sandstone flats, above the cliffs, 
Capt. Boteler ! ; 
P Statice pectinata, Ait. and S$. Brunneri, Webb. (the latter, I think, a form of S. 
pectinata), are likely to occur in the same region. They are found in the Cape Verde 
Archipelago. 
2. S. axillaris, Forsk.; Boiss. in DO. Prod. xii. 663. A low 
shrub with decumbent or ascending leafy branches or scapes erect from 
a woody stock. Leaves oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spathulate, entire 
or retuse, glabrous, fleshy, with the petiole 1-24 in, in length. Scape 
erect, subterete, smooth, glabrous, 4-1 ft. in height, all the branches 
usually floriferons. Inner bracts glabrous or nearly so, coriaceous, 
smooth, with scarious margin, about 3 times longer than_the oO 
Calyx more or less pilose below ; margin with shallow rotundate-deltos 
lobes. —S. Bovei, Jaub. et Spach. Il. Pl. Or. i. p. 157, t. 86. 
Wile Hand. Nubia and Abyssinia (Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. 288) Red Sea, 
between 10°-12° N. Lat., Lord! . 
Also at Aden. Dr. Anderson, in his ‘ Florula Adenensis,’ p. 29, cites S. lanceolata, 
Edgew., as asynonym. Tazanthemum attenuatum, BR. Br. in Salt App. P- 64, 18 
probably referable to this species. 
2. PLUMBAGO, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 627. 
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, more or less clothed with prominent 
stipitate glands. Corolla hypocrateriform. Stamens hypogynous- 
Ovary narrowed into the slender style which divides above into © Jong ; 
tudinally stigmatose branches. Capsule membranous, inclnded in ¢ : 
persistent calyx.—Perennial herbs or shrabby occasionally scandent, 
with alternate membranous entire leaves (aphyllous in one species) 
and beautiful white, rose or blue flowers in terminal spikes. 
A wide-spread genus in warm countries. . 
Leaves ovate; petiole narrow excepting at base. Calyx 
strongly glandular . . ze : 
Leaves obovate-elliptical 
thinly glandular. . 
Loe ee ee eee LP. ceylanica. 
; Petiole broadly Winged. Calyx 2. P. amplesic aulis. 
l. P. zeylanica, Linn. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii. 692. Sbrabby, 
with ascending or somewhat scandent terete longitudinally striate 
branches. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, base rounded of 
more or less cuneately narrowed into the petiole, the larger varying 
from 13 to 4 in. in length; petiole narrow but amplexicaul at base ane 
occasionally auricled. Bracts ovate acuminate, }-4 length of caly rh 
lateral bracteoles narrower. Calyx 4 in. long or thereabout, strong 
glandular-setose. Corolla white; tube considerably exceeding ere 
calyx.—P. auriculata, Hochst. in Hb. Kotzsch. Nub. et (fide Rich.) 12 
Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 
Widely spread in Tropical Africa. I have not however seen specimens from 
either the North or South Central divisions, 
Also in Tropical Asia, Australia, &c. 
