422 PLUMBAGINER ( Wright). [Statice. 
Crentrat Reaion: Ceres Div.; Verkeerde Vley, Rehmann, 2841! Richmond 
Div. ; vicinity of Styl Kloof near Richmond, 4000-5000 ft., Drége! Colesberg 
Div. ; Colesberg, Shaw / 
WEsTERN Reaion: Little Namaqualand ; Steinkopf, Schlechter ! 
KatanaRi ReGion: Var. 5: Griqualand West ; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 
1818! 
Boissier does not cite any locality or collector for var. maritima. 
6. S. scabra (Thunb. Prodr. 54); rootstock woody; leaves 
radical, obovate-oblong, obtuse, attenuate below into the petiole, up 
to 3} in. long and 4 in. wide ; scapes several springing from the root- 
stock, 6-12 in. high, fastigiately branched above, densely scabrid as 
are also the branches; bracts 1 lin. long or less, triangular; spikelets 
1-flowered ; bracteoles 21 lin. long, coriaceous with a  scarious 
border ; calyx 3 lin. long, ineluding the 3 lin. long oval subacute 
lobes; petals oblanceolate, obtuse, slightly longer than the calyx; 
anthers short, oval; ovary 5-ribbed ; styles filiform, Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 276; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 72; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 
659, : 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Grey ! Thom, 86! Villette! Webb! 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Camps Bay, Burchell, 849! Cape Peninsula, 
Millers Point, Jameson ! Fish-hook Bay, Jameson! Simons Bay, Milne, 202! 
Riversdale Div. ; Great Valsch River, Burchell, 6534! Mossel Bay Div. ; between 
the landing-place at Mossel Bay and Cape St. Blaize, Burchell, 6278! Knysna 
Div. ; Plettenberg Bay, on sand-hills, Burchell, 5314! near Knysna, Burchell, 
5387 ! Uitenhage Div. ; Sundays River, Gill / locality doubtful, Zeyher, 656! Port — 
Elizabeth Div. ; on hills near Port Elizabeth and on dunes near Cape Recife, up to 
500 ft., Zeyher, 1430! Bathurst Div. ; sea-coast, among sand-hills at Tharfield 
and near Kowie, Atherstone, 59! Kowie, MacOwan, 885! between Port Alfred 
and Kaffir Drift, Burchell, 3858! Peddie Div.; Fredericksburg, on the Gualanna 
River, Gill! Div. ? sand-flats, Baur, 176! 
Western Region: Little Namaqualand; Steinkopf, Max Schlechter, 37! 
and without precise locality, Seully, 225! 
7. 8. equisetina (Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 658) ; rootstock short, 
woody ; leaves obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, sharply 
mueronate, up to 1} in. long and 2 in. wide, smooth or nearly so; 
scapes many from each rootstock, }—1 ft. high, much branched nearly 
from the base, forming a subcylindrical panicle; branches about 
‘1 in. long, smooth or slightly rough; spikelets 2-flowered ; outer 
bract broadly ovate or suborbicular, shortly cuspidate, * lin. long ; 
inner bract elliptic, navicular, hyaline-margined, about 2 lin. long; 
calyx tubular, shortly 5-lobed; petals oblanceolate. S. linifolia, 
Drige, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 110, not of Thunb. 
Var. 8, depauperata (Boiss. l.c.); scape and its branches tuberculate; in- 
florescence more lax than in the type ; flowers sometimes solitary. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Wallich! var. 6: Villette! Harvey, 
492! 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; between Kromme River and Berg 
Vallei, under 1000 ft., Drége! Var. 8: Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Burke! about 
the Windmills at Salt River, Burchell, 512! 
