Statice. | PLUMBAGINER (Wright), 419 
circumscissile near the base, or 5-valved, sometimes indehiscent. 
Seed filling the cell; testa membranous ; endosperm floury, copious, 
scanty or 0; embryo straight, terete or slightly compressed. 
Herbs, acaulescent or with short stem and leaves in a rosette, sometimes 
suffrutescent, more rarely herbs or shrubs with elongated branched stem and 
alternate leaves, which leave annular scars on falling off; scape or peduncle 
terminal, dichotomously branclied, more rarely simple ; flowers sessile or on a 
short thick pedicel, solitary or few in spikelets, often secund, rarely capitate, 
rose, violet, blue or yellow, rarely white; bracts usually rigid, scarious at the 
edge, one subtending each spikelet ; bracteoles 1 or more to each flower, 
Distrie. Species about 200, in maritime and desert places, especially in the 
Mediterranean region ; a few cosmopolitan. 
I. Statice.—Stemless herbs or dwarf shrubs. Calyw-limb patent, scarious, 
coloured. Petals almost free. 
II. Plumbago.—Rambling shrubs. Calyx not scarious, glandular, shortly 
5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped. 
ITI, Vogelia.—Erect undershrubs. Calyx papery, deeply 5-lobed, bearing 5 
vertical wings, eglandular. Corolla funnel-shaped. 
I. STATICE, Willd. 
Calyx usually funnel-shaped ; tube usually equally 10-ribbed at 
the base, ribs uniting in pairs above, rarely 10- or 5-ribbed through- 
out ; limb scarious, plicate, patent, 5-toothed. Petals connate at the 
very base or free. Stamens adnate to the base of the petals. Styles 
5, distinct, rarely shortly united. Fruit included in the calyx, 
indehiscent or variously dehiscing. Seed filling the cell; albumen 
scanty, or copious on one side of or all round the embryo. 
Perennial, rarely annual, stemless herbs, or small shrubs branched from the 
base, glabrous, pulverulent or lepidote ; leaves radical or cauline and alternate, 
flat ; inflorescence racemose, cymose or paniculate ; peduncles terete or winged ; 
bracts scale-like, small, enwrapping one or more flowers, 
Distrib. Species about 120, chiefly in the coast and desert regions of the 
northern hemisphere, some in Australia. 
Calyx-limb at least 5 lin. in diam. : 
Panicles corymbose : 
Leaves and scape smooth or nearly so ... ... (1) purpurata. 
Leaves and scape papillose oe Say .. (2) rosea, 
Panicles spicate as ate ie é .. (3) amena. 
Calyx-limb less than 5 lin. in diam. : 
Plants erect : 
Panicles dense : : 
Leaves linear-subulate —... rei + (4) kraussiana, 
Leaves linear : ne ... (5) linifolia, 
Leaves obovate or oblanceolate : 
Spikelets 1-flowered .., Te -- (6) scabra, 
Spikelets 2-flowered: 
Panicle densely —_ racemosely 
branched ae se on 
Panicle less dense, corymbose : 
Calyx 2 lin.long ... ss (9) dregeana. 
Calyx 34 lin. long ... -++ (9) avenacea, 
Panicles very diffuse... a re .»» (10) anthericoides. 
Plants decumbent —_... bud = be ..+ (11) decumbens, 
Ee 
(7) equisetina. 
