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NOTES ON STITICE*. 



By C. E. Salmon, F.L.S. 



XIII. Statice asteeotrtcha, sp. now 



(Plate 546) 



When working upon Statice Gmelini in 1909, I was much 

 interested in a particular example collected in Bulsjaria (lent from 

 the Herbarium of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden), so named, which 

 appeared to me decidedly not that species ; as however the specimen 

 was a poor one and as the herbaria at Kew, British Museum, and else- 

 where could furnish no other material, there the matter had to rest. 



Since then, fortunately, Professor I. B. Balfour has been able to 

 send me a much more complete and satisfactory sheet of specimens, 

 and, believing the plant to be undescribed, I have drawn up the 

 following account of it. 



Statice asterotricha, sp. nov. 



Planta elata, plus minusve scabriclo^tnhsrcidata 'pilisque stfUatis 

 copiose adspersa ; folia pariter vestita, ohlcuiceolata, apice acuta, 

 lotige petiolata^ tuberculis albidis carentia. Scapus ad medium vel 

 infi^a medium ramosus ; rami inferiores steriles nulli vel subnulli. 

 Spicae breves et densifloras ; hractece glabrae, exterior margine mem- 

 branaceo latissimo cincta, interior quam exterior vix l^-plo longior ; 

 calyx minndiihn\iioY\\\\s, fere glaher plerumque ad basin parce hirsutus ; 

 cal^^cis lobi brevissimi triangulari-acutiusculi, dentibus intermediis 

 interpositis. 



Plant tall, 40-65 cm. high, -h copiously scabrid-tuberculous and 

 stellately-hairy (with rare simple hairs). Leaves small compared with 

 height of scape, + copiously scabrid-tuberculous and stellately-hairy 

 (simple haii*s rare), lamina oblanceolate about 7-11 cm. long and 

 about 13 mm. broad, pinnately veined, not showing white (salt) 

 tubercles when dry, tapering gradually into a long petiole almost 

 length of blade, apex acute with or without a mucro. Scape -f- copi- 

 ousl}' tuberculous-hairy with stellate hail's (simple rare), less so nearer 

 apex, erect, branched at or below the middle, sterile branches absent 

 or very few. Brandies and hranclilets ascending-patent, usually 

 recurved> Scales triangular-acuminate, densely hair}^ (less so near 

 apex of scape). Spikes patent, short and dense- flowered, the lateral 

 sometimes sessile upon the branches. Spikelets 1-2-flowered, with 

 often an additional rudimentary one. Outer bract about 1| mm. 

 long, orbicular- or triangular-ovate, apex + acute, keeled with the 

 keel projecting as an apiculus, herbaceous for little more than half 

 its height with very broad membranous margin, glabrous. Middle 

 bract l|-2 mm. long, irregularly ovate-oblong, apex truncate or bifid, 

 hyaline with veins, glabrous. Inner bract 2 j-2| mm. long, orbicular- 

 ovate, with broad membranous margin which is often, together with 



* See Joum. Bot. 1903, 65 ; 1904, 361 ; 1905, 5, 54 ; 1907, 24, 428 ; 1908, 1 ; 

 1909, 285 ; 1911, 73 ; 1913, 92 ; 1915, 237, 325. 



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