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Statice—continued. 
tuse, mucronate, shortly attenuated into the petioles. Stem 
short, naked, terete. Canary Islands, 1847, Half-hardy shrub. 
(R. G. 319; F. d. S. 325, under name of S, frutescens.) 
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Fic. 527. STATICE SINUATA, showing Habit and detached 
Inflorescence. 
S. Halfordi (Halford’s). A garden variety of, or hybrid from, 
S. macrophylla. 
S. imbricata (imbricated). /. blue; spikelets three or four- 
flowered, few, in short, fascicled spikes; bracts velvety ; scape 
tall, amply corymbose above, with undulated and broadly-winged 
branches. Summer. J. Janceolate, lyrate-runcinate, 
with eight or nine lobes on each side, setose-mu- 
cronate, Yin. to 10in. long. A. 1}ft. Teneriffe, 1829. 
er slightly tomentose sub-shrub. (F. d. S. < 
, 321. 
S. incana (hoary), of Bieberstein. 
S. tatarica angustifolia. 
Kaufmanniana (Kaufmann’s). fl. pink; scape 
6in. to léin. long, bearing several ascending spikes. 
Summer. /. all radical, lanceolate, acuminate, crisped, 
with thick margins. A. lft. Turkestan, 1880. A 
pretty, hardy perennial. (R. G. 996.) 
S, latifolia (broad-leaved).* fl. blue; spikelets one 
(rarely two) flowered, rather remote, forming loose, 
very slender, slightly recurved spikes; bracts gla- 
brous; scape tall, much-branched; panicle ample, 
effuse. June. J, large, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, long- 
attenuated into the petioles. A. lft. South Russia, 
1791. Hardy. 
S. leptoloba (slender-lobed). fl., calyx purple, stel- 
late, funnel-shaped ; corolla yellowish, iat; spikes 
about şin. long, few-flowered; scape slender, re- 
A synonym of 
atedly forke Summer. l. all radical, oblanceo- 
ate-spathulate. Turkestan, 1881. Habit tufted. 
Hardy. (R. G. 1045.) 
(large-leaved).* fl. white, twice 
as large as those of S. arborescens; spikelets two- 
flowered, twin, erect, at the tips of the branchlets ; 
bracts velvety, the lower ones scarious-rufescent ; 
scape tall, amply and much branched above, in a 
corymbose panicle. May. l. nearly glabrous, large, 
sessile, obovate-spathulate, very obtuse, the lower 
t long-attenuated, obsoletely sinuate. h. 2ft. 
eneriffe, 1824. Half-hardy sub-shrub. (B. M. 4125; 
B. R. xxxi. 7.) 
S. macroptera (large-winged). fi. purple; spikelets 
two-flowered, in sa sk of two or rein at The tips 
of the branchlets ; wings of the floral branches very 
ad; scape tall, ample and spreading, very broadly 
cere econzta bose. Summer. J. slightly puberu- 
ous, at length glabrescent, ample, coriaceous, pe- 
tiolate, lyrate; terminal lobe large, ovate, slightly 
acute, bristle-bearing at apex, sinuate-lobed ; lateral 
ones much smaller, confluent. A. about 2ft. Canary 
Greenhouse. (1. H. iii. 105.) 
n, pantinate. incompta (comb-like, inelegant 
ue; spikelets three-tlowered, distichous, io are 
sub-scorpioid, spreading, densely-imbricated spikes ; 
lower bracts rufescent ; scape leafy, decumbent. 
Sept r ate at the base of the scape, or 
fascicled or solitary near the axils of the scales, 
obovate, obtuse or retuse, mucronate, attenuated 
into the petioles. Canary Islands, 1780. A half- 
hardy, calcareous-dotted sub-shrub. (B. R. xxvi. 65 
under name of S. pectinata.) : 
THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Statice—continued. 
. profusa (profuse).* jl. disposed in well-branched, corymbose 
yor et ven room corolla white. August. J. radical, 6in.'to 
8in. long, oval or somewhat spathulate, waved, leathery, shining, 
and dark green; outer ones prostrate. h. 2ft. A greenhouse 
hybrid between S. puberula and S. Halfordii. (F. M. 40.) 
. puberula (puberulous). f. violet, as large as those of 
pa opin toon ETAS two-flowered, few, at the tips of the 
branchlets, sub-distichous and rather loosely fascicled ; bracts 
scarious-rufescent, pubescent ; scape 3in. to Sin. high, panicu- 
lately corymbose. July. l. šin. to jin. long, ovate-rhomboid, 
slightly acute, bristle-bearing at apex, long-ciliated on the mar- 
gins, shortly attenuated into the petioles. Graciosa, 1830. A 
whitish-pilose or puberulous, half-hardy sub-shrub. (B. 182; 
B. M. 3701; B. R. 1450.) 
S. pumila alba. A mere garden name. 
S. rosea (rosy).* fl. blue; spikelets one-flowered, clustered in 
short, terminal, horizontal spikes, with a flexuous rachis ; bracts 
blackish, with white margins; scape terete, much-branched, 
aniculately corymbose above, tuberculate - scabrous. May. 
p obovate-oblong, attenuated into the petioles, rough-tubercled 
on both sides. Stem short, leafy. h. 3ft. Port Natal, 1840. 
Half-hardy sub-shrub. (B. M. 4055, under name of S. rytido- 
phylla.) i 
S. rytidophylla (shrivelled-leaved). A synonym of S. rosea. 
S. sinensis (Chinese). fl. yellow; spikelets two-flowered, in 
short, sub-secund, terminal spikes; lower bracts ovate, obtuse ; 
scape tall, dichotomously branched just above the base, corym- 
bose-fastigiate. April. 7. obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, long- 
attenuated into the petioles. Stem acutely angled. A. lft. 
China, 1845. Plant hardy, glabrous. (B. R. 1845, 63, and 
F. d. S. ii. 28, under name of S. Fortunei.) 
§. sinuata (sinuate-leaved).* fi. purple, yellow ; spikelets three 
or four-flowered ; spikes short, secund, nearly horizontal, the 
upper branchlets densely imbricated; lower bracts reddish ; 
scape dichotomous, paniculately corymbose, three to five-winged. 
August. l. lyrate-pinnatifid, with rounded lobes, the terminal 
ones bristle-bearing. h. 1ft. Levant, 1629. Half-hardy. See 
Fig. 527. (B. M. 71; S. F, G. 301.) 
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FIG. 528. STATICE SUWOROWI. 
