Statice. | PLUMBAGINEH (Wright). 421 
spicately spaced out on the branches; outer bracteoles 1 lin. long, 
suborbicular, acute, hyaline-margined; inner bracteole elliptic, 
3} lin, long, enwrapping the flower, hyaline-margined in the upper 
half; calyx tubular-campanulate, 5 lin. long, 5 lin. in diam., rose- 
colour; tube hirsute outside below; lobes 5, very short, rounded, 
the alternate larger; anthers oblong ; cells united only in the upper 
half. 
CENTRAL Reeion: Worcester Div.; stony places near Touws River Railway 
Statiov, 2500 ft., Bolus in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1080! 
4. 8. kraussiana (Buching. ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 73); stem 
short ; branches tufted, woody; leaves congested, rigid, linear- 
subulate, almost pungent, flat above, convex beneath, 6 lin. long; 
scape about 1 in. long, paniculately branched ; spikelets 2-flowered ; 
outer bract very short, inner 2 lin. long, both coriaceous with 
scarious margins; calyx narrowly funnel-shaped, 3 lin. long, 5- 
ribbed ; lobes short, triangular; petals oblanceolate, obtuse, 4 lin. 
long; anthers oval; ovary obovoid; style filiform. Boiss. in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 657. 
Coast Reeton: Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 150 ft., Schlechter, 9664! Zoetendals 
Vallei, Krauss. 
5. 8. linifolia (Linn. f. Suppl. 187); stem very short, woody, 
usually branched ; leaves linear, up to 14 in. long and } lin. wide, 
seabrid ; scape about 6 in. high, much branched above, scabrid ; 
bracts short, scarious-edged ; spikelets 1-2-flowered, sessile or 
shortly pedicelled ; outer bracteole 2 lin. long, coriaceous with a 
hyaline border, two inner slightly shorter, scarious; calyx 2} lin. 
long, 5-ribbed, pubescent outside in the lower half; lobes short, 
triangular; petals 3 lin. long, oblanceolate, obtuse ; filaments fili- 
form ; anthers 1 lin. long; ovary oblong, 5-angled ; styles filiform. 
Thunb. Prodr. 54, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 277; Boiss. in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 657 ; var, aretiefolia, Boiss, l.c.; var. collina, Eckl. & 
Zeyh. ex Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 105, and in Linnea, xx. 203. S. 
aretiefolia, Fries ex Boiss. l.c. 8S. sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 
Documente, 56, 129. 
Var. 8, brachyphylla (Boiss. in DO. Prodr. xii. 657); leaves very short, 
narrowly subspathulate, obtuse; scape short, densely branched. 8. linifolia? 
Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 129. 
Vax. y, maritima (Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Boiss, l.c.); branchlets incurved; spike- 
lets smaller, usually 1-flowered, more distant ; leaves flatter, wider. 
Var. 5, robusta (C. H. Wright); stem bearing many short stout branches ; 
leaves linear, usually obtuse, 9 lin. long, 1 lin. wide. 
Coast Raion: Caledon Div. ; Verreauw ; Bredasdorp Div.; Cape Agulhas, 
100 ft., Schlechter, 10568! Riversdale Div.; hills near Zoetemelks River, 
Burchell, 6787! Knysna Div.; sand-hills at Plettenberg Bay, Burchell, 5315 ! 
Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkops River, under 100 ft., Drége, 8017! Burchell, 4426! 
and without precise locality, Zeyher / Var. B: Port Elizabeth Div. ; on sand-hills 
near Port Elizabeth, under 100 ft., Drége! Albany Div.; Brak Kloof, near 
Grahamstown, MacOwan, 444! 
