Statice. 725 
Local name: melleyh (Wilkinson); generally; aryal; genemiye 
(Ascherson); fushfash; halaytin (Ascherson). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Arabia Petraea and 
Palestine. 
1028. (5.) Statice axillaris Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab. (1775), p. 58. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.868. — Vahl Symb.I, p.26 tab.9. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Il]. Flor. @Eg., p.123 no.842. — Sickenherg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 268. — Statice Bovei Jaub. and Spach Ilustr. 
Plant. Or. I, tab. 86. — A glabrous, glaucous shrub, branching from 
the base; branches erect, fleshy, densely leafy below. Leaves flat, 
fleshy, oblong or lanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or acute, long attenuate, 
sheaths brownish oblique truncate; scapes short or elongate flexuous, 
sparingly branched, narrow-paniculate; spikelets two-flowered, spikes 
shortly pedunculate or sessile scorpioid-recurved; flowers small; 
bracts brownish, obtuse, narrowly-whitish marginate, the lower ones 
short, ovate, the upper ones thrice larger; calyx-tub rectly obconic, 
pilulous. — Flow. March to April. 
R. Red-Sea-coast in deep sand. 
Local name: shelil (Schweinfurth; Klunzinger). 
Also known from Arabia Felix. 
1029. (6.) Statice echioides L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 394. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. TV, p.870. — Rehbch. Plant. crit. IT, fig. 292 and 
Ic. XVI tab. 96 fig. W1..— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. V’Eg., p.123 
no. 843. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.663 no. 257. 
Statice aristata Sibth. and Smith Prodrom. Flor. Graec. I, p. 213. — 
An annual glabrous plant; leaves small, obovate or oblong-spathulate, 
obtuse, narrowed into a petiole, tuberculate on the under surface; 
scapes virgate, dichotomously paniculate-branched, flexuous; branch- 
lets elongate, patent; spikelets one-flowered rarely two-flowered; 
the lower bracts ovate-rotundate obtuse, small, the upper-one five 
times longer, coriaceous, calyx-tube small cylindrical, appressed 
hirtellous, limb thrice shorter than the tube, truncate, recurved. — 
Flow. March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West. 
Also known from the Mediterranean Europe. 
1030. (7.) Statice tubiflora Delile Ilustr. Flor. d’Kg. (1813), 
p. 25 fig. 2. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.871. — DC. Prodrom. XIII, 
p.- 668. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.123 no,844. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmar., p. 663 no. 257. — Statice 
squamata Poir. Encyclop. Supplem. V, p. 237. — A perennial plant, 
20—40 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, glaucous, calcarate- 
