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TAB. 5158. 
STATICE BonpveE.ti. 
Bonduelle’s Statice. 
Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE®.—PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3776.) 
Sratice (§ Pteroclados) Bonduelli; foliis radicalibus patentibus pubescenti- 
hirsutis ciliatis spathulatis sinuato-runcinatis, lobis rotundatis terminali sub- 
rhombeo longe mucronato, scapis teretibus, ramis angulatis dichotome cy- 
mosis, pedunculis obpyramidalibus trialatis, floribus glomeratis (flavis), brac- 
teis interioribus patenti-spinosis, calycis limbo demum campanulato 5- 
dentato. 
Sratice Bonduelli. Lestid. in Annal. des Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 16. p. 81. ¢. 17. 
This pretty yellow-flowered Statice was received at the Royal 
Gardens of Kew from Mr. Thomson of Ipswich, and proves to 
be a species described and accurately figured by Lestiboudois 
in the ‘Annales des Sciences Naturelles’ above quoted, under 
the name of S. Bonduelli. Tt was detected in North Africa, in 
the desert of Djebel-Amour, on the banks of the Mzi, between 
Tagemont and El-Aghouat, by M. Bonduelle, chirurgien aide- 
major, after whom it is named. It is one of the prettier of a 
very pretty genus, and is among the few of the yellow-flowered | 
species known to us; is easily cultivated in a greenhouse, and 
flowers readily during the summer months. 
Dzscr. Perennial. eaves radical, spreading, three to. five 
inches long, spathulate, sinuato-lyrate, hairy and ciliated, termi- 
nated by a subulate point, tapering below into a short, winged 
petiole: lobes of the leaves oval or rounded, separated by obtuse 
sinuses ; terminal one larger than the rest, subrhomboid. Scapes ° 
a foot and more tall, several from the same root, branched 
upwards in a compoundly dichotomous manner, rounded, hairy ; 
the dranches triangular, moderately spreading: éracts two or 
three together, linear, half an inch to an inch long, below the 
branches.and at the bases of all the dichotomies, uppermost 
ones subulate : w/timate branchlets, which may be considered the 
JANUARY Ist, 1860. 
