Tas. 7506. 
ACANTHOLIMON venuvstoum. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE#.—Tribe Statice. 
Genus ACANTHOLIMON, Boiss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 625.) 
AcaANTHOLIMON (Rhodocalycina) venustum ; laxe coespitosum, fere glaberrimum, 
foliis rosulatis planiusculis et carinatis v. angaste linearibus v. acerosis 
exigue calcareo-squamulatis marginibus scaberulis, scapis remote vagi- 
natis foliis multo longioribus, spica simplici erecta subrecurva laxiflora, 
floribus secundis 3-bracteatis, bracteis glabris v. pubescentibus acuminatis 
exteriore triangulari ovata v. ovato-lanceolata membranaceo-marginata, 
interioribus lanceolatis latius marginatis quam exteriore 3-} longioribus, 
calycis tubo pilosulo limbo infundibulari fusco eroso paullo longiore, 
petalis roseis purpureisve. 
A. venustum, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. I. vol. vii. p. 80; Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 831; 
in DO. Prodr, vol. xiii. p. 631. Tehihatch. Voy. As. Min, pars. ILI. vol. 
ii. p. 408, t. 37. 
A. laxiflorum, Boiss. in Bourgeau, Pl, Exsice. No. 295. 
Statice Olivieri, Jaub. & Spach. Lil. Pl. Orient. vol. i. p. 168, t. 93. Verlot in 
Rev. Hortic. (1866) p. 451 cum Ie. pict. 
S. venusta, Fenzl. mss. 
8. dianthifolia, Jawb. & Spach. 1. c. vol. i. p. 162 (exel. syn.). e 
Limonium orientale, &c., Tourn. Coroll. Instit. Rei Herb. p. 25. oO 
Though numbering nearly one hundred described species, 
the genus Acantholimon has only a couple of representatives 
known to be under cultivation in English gardens, namely, 
A. glumaceum, Boiss., and the plant here figured; and none 
are figured in any British work devoted to horticultural 
illustrations. The genus is peculiar as being separated 
from Statice by habit alone, which renders it all the more 
remarkable that it should have a very wide yet exceed- 
ingly well defined geographical distribution, abounding 
from Western Asia Minor through Persia to Affghanistan, 
Turkestan, and the Altai Mountains. Only one species 
enters Europe, A. androsaceum, Boiss., which extends 
westward from Cappadocia to Crete and the mountains of 
Greece; and one alone crosses the Indus, the A. lycopo- 
dioides, Hook. f., found in Northern Kashmir. Many of 
November Ist, 1896, 
