Tab. 6959. 

 STATICE Suworowi. 



Native of Western Turkestan. 



Nat. Ord. Plumbagine.2E. — Tribe Statice^:. 

 Genus Stalice, Linn. (Benin, et HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 625.) 



Statice (Psylliostacbys) Suivorotvi ; annua, foliis omnibus radicalibus mem- 

 branaceis oblongo-oblanceolatis obtusis integerriinis nervo excurrente mucro- 

 natis undulatis, scapo elato superne racbique spicarum pubescente, spieis 

 valde elongatis subpanieulatim dispositis densifloris, bracteis ovatis albo- 

 h3 T alinis cuspidatis, spiculis 2-3-floris bibracteolatis, bracteolis flora in inferiornm 

 scariosis late ovatis nervo viridi cuspidatis, superiorum subulatis, parium 

 inferiore truncato-dentata,calycis tubo inferne glanduloso-piloso, lobis aristatis, 

 corolla? tubo calyce duplo longiore, lobis rotundatis. 



S. Suwerowi, Kegel Gartenfi. vol. xxxi. (1882), p. 289, tab. 1095, figs. 1, 2; Gard. 

 Chron. N. S. vol. xx. (1883), p. 392, fig. 59. 



This is one of the most beautiful Annuals introduced of 

 late into cultivation, and is fortunately perfectly hardy. 

 It belongs to an annual section of the genus Statice, with 

 terete spikes of flowers, all Oriental and Central Asiatic, 

 of which 8. spicata, Willd., which ranges from the Ural to 

 Palestine in the West, and Beluchistan in the East, is the 

 type. 8. Suiuerowi differs from that plant in its tall 

 stature, in its much greater size, quite entire leaves, and 

 very long drooping spikes. It w^as discovered by Dr. 

 Albert Regel near Dscham-Bulak in Western Turkestan, 

 and is named in honour of Iwan Petrowitsch Suworow, 

 Inspector of Military Hospitals, &c, iu the Turkestan 

 forces. The Royal Gardens are indebted for specimens to 

 Dr. Masters, who raised plants from seeds received from 

 Messrs. Haage and Schmidt of Erfurt. The plants flowered 

 in July, 1886. Dr. Masters mentions a single specimen as 

 having remained upwards of two months in flower, and 

 says that by sowing in succession from February to April 

 it may be had in full bloom throughout the summer from 

 May till October. At Kew it has flowered both in a 

 conservatory and in the rockery, in the latter case attaining 

 a height of five feet, but with flowers paler than under 



oct. 1st, 1887. 



