Tas. 65387. 
STATICE raranica. 
Native of 8S. E. Europe and Siberia. 
Nat. Ord, Prumpacingz.—Tribe Sraricex. 
Genus Statice, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 625.) 
Sraticr (Goniolimon) tatarica; glaucescens, foliis obovato- v. oblongo-spathulatis 
mucronatis in petiolum brevem sensim angustatis, scapo humili paulo supra 
basin divaricatim dichotomo late et patentim corymboso, ramis 3-quetris 
patenti-recurvis, spiculis 1-2 floris in spicas terminales laxas yv. densiusculas 
districho dispositis, bracteis herbaceis coriaceis angustis membranaceis pungenti- 
bus acute carinatis, interiore 3-cuspidata cuspidibus rectis subzquilongis, calyce 
infundibulari plicato, tubo undique breviter puberulo, limbi zquilongi lobis 
oblongis obtusis, petalis basi connatis unguibus contiguis, stylis elongatis 
papillosis, stigmatibus capitatis, 
S. tatarica, Zinn. Sp, Pl. vol. i. p. 395; Willd, Sp. Pl. vol. i. p. 1527; Bieb. Fl. 
~ Taur, Caue. vol. i. p. 251; Gmel. Fl. Sibir. vol. ii, p. 223, t. 92; Ait. Hort. 
Kew. vol, ii. p. 182. 
8. Besseriana, Ram. and Schultes Syst. vol. vi. p. 789; Reichb. Ic. Crit. vol. viii. - 
t. 720. , 
8. trigona, Pall. Ind. Pl. Taur. (ex Rem. and Sch.). 
GoONIOLIMON tataricum, Boiss.in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 632, et in Flor. Orient. 
vol. iv. p. 854; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. xvii. t. 88. : 
With the exception of the Thrift—which is generally 
consigned to do duty as ‘‘edgings,” and a few showy green- 
house species—the genus Statice has found little favour of 
late with cultivators; yet it contains many plants of singular 
beauty and interest. Of these the palm must be given to 
the Canary Island species, introduced by the late M. Bour- 
geau, which were once the ornaments of a house at Kew 
devoted to plants loving the dry climate of the South of 
Europe (see Bot. Mag. tab. 3701, 3776, 4125, 5753, 5762), 
but which have long since “gone out of cultivation,” S. 
Holfordii, Hort., remaining as almost the only representative 
of the group. Amongst the South-Eastern European ones 
are many hardy kinds of remarkable beauty, such as the 
subject of the present plate, whose flowering-corymbs (of 
one plant) form together rounded masses a yard in diameter 
JANUARY Ist, 1881. 
