Agialitis.] LXXXVI. PLUMBAGINEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 479 
l. ÆGIALITIS, R. Br. 
A glabrous shrub. Leaves alternate, broad, coriaceous; petiole dilated at 
base, amplexicaul. ?acemes panicled; bract sheathing the pedicel and includ- 
ing the 2 bracteoles. Calyx tubular, tough, 5-ribbed ; teeth 5, short. Petals 
linear, white, connate at base with the filaments into a persistent tube, deciduous 
above the tube. Anthers oblong. Styles distinct, from the angles of the ovary ; 
stigmas capitate. Fruit (in Æ. annulata) linear, long-exserted from the calyx, 
slightly pentagonal, dehiscing finally along the angles. Seed elongate, albumen 0. 
—NSpecies 2, littoral, an Australian and a Malayan. 
Æ. rotundifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 111; leaves orbicular base mostly 
rounded, calyx 4 in., young capsule ovoid pentagonal. Wall. Cat. 7240; Griff. 
Notul. iv. 907. AE. annulata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. ii. 217, and For. Fi, ii. 
06, not of R. Br. Aigianilites rotundifolia, Pres] Bot. Bermerk. 103. 
Mangrove swamps ; BENcAL; abundant. Mercor; Griffith, Anpamans; Kurz. 
Maracca; Griffith. 
Height 3-8 ft. Leaves 21-3 in.; petiole 2} in. Bract 4 in.; pedicels stout. 
Young capsule i by 3-4 in., shining, horny; endocarp very tough, spongy. Seed 
narrowly oblong.— This plant has been united with the Australian Æ. annulata, R. 
Br. (DC. Prodr. xii. 621); in which the calyx hardly exceeds 1 in. The ripe fruit of 
the indian species is unknown; but the young capsules are much broader than in the 
fruit of Æ. annulata at any stage. Corolla-tube A in. long, in Æ. annulata a mere 
ring. 
2. ACANTHOLIMON, Boiss. 
Small, prickly shrubs. Leaves crowded, linear, spinescent, Scapes many- 
flowered ; rachis brittle, simple or dichotomous; bracts usually 3. Calya-tube 
cylindric, 10-ribbed; limb widely funnel-shaped, scarious, subentire, with 5 
sometimes excurrent nerves. Petals oblong or obovate, united shortly at the 
base into a tube with the stamens, rose or white, contorted in bud. Filaments 
linear; anthers oblong. Styles distinct, at the angles of the ovary; stigmas 
capitate. Utricle included within the calyx, oblong or pentagonal, membranous; 
seed more or less albuminous.—Species 80, Greece to Kashmir, most numerous 
in Persia. 
A. lycopodioides, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 632; leaves linear-lan- 
ceolate, spikes dichotomous short, bracts coriaceous with hyaline margins, ribs 
of the wide-spreading calyx-limb glabrous. Bunge Acanthol. 20. A. tibeticum, 
Herb, Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. Statice lycopodioides, Girard in Ann, Sc. Nat. 8, ii. 
330, excl. syn. Walid. 
Norra Kasumir; alt. 11—14,000 ft , frequent, Thomson, &e.—Disrri. Kashgar. 
Densely tufted. Leaves 1 by Je in., needle-pointed. Seapes 1-2 in., minutely 
scabrous. Bracts à by } in., inner wholly scarious except the midrib. Calya-tube 
4-3 in., pilose without; limb white, subtruncate. Petals } in., rose-red. 
3. STATICE, Linn. 
Herbs or small shrubs. eaves alternate, radical often rosulate, entire (in 
the Indian species), not spinescent. Scapes branched, many-flowered ; bracts 
small, amplexicaul, margins scarious. Calyx tubular or funnel-shaped ribbed ; 
limb scarious, spreading, 5-nerved, sometimes laciniate or plumose. Petals 
spathulate-oblong, entire or bipartite, united at base into a short tube with the 
. stamens. Styles distinct, at the angles of the ovary; stigmas subcapitate. 
Utricle included within the calyx, oblong fusiform, membranous; seed more or 
less albuminous.—Species 100, cosmopolitan, especially in saline places. 
