724 Plumbaginaceae. 
much enlarged, so as to assume the appearance of a corolla con- 
cealing the real one. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta along the sea-coast. 
— D.i. Wady-el-Hageg. 
Local name: ?orq angibar; lisan-et-tin. 
In maritime sands and salt-marshes, on the coasts of Western Europe, 
the Mediterranean, Western Asia, on the South American and Californian 
sea-shores. 
1026. (3.) Statice delicatula De Girard in Ann. Scienc. Nat., 
ser. 3, Il (1844) p. 327. — Willk. and Lange Prodr. Flor. Hisp. II, 
p- 377. —- Statice globulariaefolia Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 860 not Desf. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 123 no. 840. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 268. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 663 no. 255. — Statice globulariaefolia var. glauca 
Boiss. Voy. Esp., p.531 tab. 155 fig. a. — Statice Raddiana Boiss. in 
DC. Prodrom. XI, p.653. — A perennial plant, glaucous, glabrous. 
Leaves rosulate, coriaceous, obovate, acute or obtuse or mucronulate 
narrowed into an short petiole; scapes elongate, rigid, flexuous, 
dichotomously branched, corymbose-paniculate; spices 2—3-flowered ; 
bracts white-marginate, ovate-triangular, carinate; calyx-tube appressed 
hairy, limb white three times shorter than the ovate, acute lobes. — 
Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Ras-el-Ken@is; Abusir to Abukir 
along the coast in deep sand. — M. p. Damietta. 
Also known from Spain, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania. 
1027. (4.) Statice pruinosa L. Mant. (1771), p. 59 excl. synon. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.865. — Viv. Flor. Libyc., p. 17 tab. 27 fig. 1. 
— DC. Prodrom. XII, p. 662. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., 
p- 123 no, 841. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 268. — Aschers. 
Flor. Sirbon., p.813 no. 31. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p.603 no. 256. — A perennial herb, 40—50 em high, 
sometimes somewhat more, furfuraceous. Leaves soon disappearing, 
obovate-spathulate to obovate-cordate, tapering into a petiole. Scapes 
panicled with brittle, flexuous-angled branches, beset at the nodes 
with tawny, triangular scales; lower branches sterile, forked, jointed; 
spikelets 1-flowered, arranged in scorpioid, 1— 1,5 cm long spikes; 
lower bracts ovate, acutish, one-fourth as long as the inner, obtuse 
ones; calyx-tube obconical, glabrous, as long as the obtusely 5-lobed 
limb; corolla purple. — Flow. January to May. 
M.ma. M.p. D.1l D.i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Everywhere 
common in deep sand and often on calcarious ground of the Wadies. 
