Statice. 723 
a) Lower bracts membranous at the margin. 
1. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate. . . 2. S. Limonium. 
BY eaves iO DOV ALG Tote 8) ae") ise . eed 3. S. delicatula. 
b) Lower bracts hyaline. 
1. Furfuraceous-puberule plants. -.... . 4. S. pruinosa. 
2. Glabrous plants. 
a) Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
MOT Beato ete Oh oS Bh (Ga emir ores Se 5. S. axillaris. 
8) Leaves obovate, obtuse. ...... 6. S. echioides. 
B+ Oorolla. gamopetalous: A s-yoreus, ir -ai0oms Suri 7. S. tubiflora. 
1024. (1.) Statice Thouini Viv. Cat. Hort. Negro (1802), p. 34 
and Flor. Libye., p.18 tab. 11 fig. 1. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 858. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 123 no. 838. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 268. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 663 no. 254. — Statice aegyptiaca Pers. Syn. I, p. 334. 
— Del. Ilustr. Flor. d’Eg., tab. 25 fig. 3. — An annual plant, 20 to 
50 cm high or more, glabrous. Scapes more or less 3-winged, one 
of the wings ending at the nodes in a short, blunt, oblong appen- 
dage; wings of floral branches 2—4 cm broad, reticulate; axis nearly 
naked; calyx-limb white, cleft to the middle into 5, triangular lobes, 
with bristle in sinus; corolla yellow. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West 
and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — D. i. Wady-el-Hagg; desert-el-Tih. 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Arabia Petraea, 
Palestine and Persia. 
1025. (2.) Statice Limonium L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 394. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.858. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 123 no. 839. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 268. — Statice 
Limonium a genuina and y macroclada Boiss. in DC. Prodrom. VHI, 
p. 120. — Stock short and thick, with tufts of radical leaves from 
5—10 or 16 cm long, obovate or oblong, quite entire, glabrous, 
and narrowed at the base into a long stalk; the midrib is alone 
prominent when fresh, but when dry the lateral reticulate veins 
branching from it distinctly appear. Flower-stem erect, leafless, 
9—30 cm or even more high, repeatedly forked, so as to form a 
broad corymbose panicle, with a membranous bract at each division. 
Flowers numerous, in short, rather loose spikes at the ends of the 
branches, with a green bract, coloured at the edge, under each 
flower. Calyx green at the base, dry, scarious, and of a pale purple 
in its upper part, with 5 short, broad teeth, which are often slightly 
toothed or jagged. Petals of a bluish purple, at the time of flowering 
rather longer than the calyx, but the latter becomes subsequently 
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