486 Lxxvii. PLUMBAGiNEj; (oliver). [Statice. 



the flower, obtnse with a scarious margin. Calyx glabrous ; margin 

 undulate-lobate with 5 mucroiiiform teeth. 



Vpper Guinea. Cape Blanco, ' covering the sandstone flats, above the cliifs, ' 

 Capt. Boteler ! 



Statice peciinata, Ait. and S. Brunneri, Webb, (the latter, I think, a form of S. 

 pectinata), are likely to occur in the same region. They are found in the Cape Verde 

 Archipelago. 



2. S. axillaris, ForsJc. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii. 663. A low 

 shrub with decumbent or ascending leafy branches or scapes erect from 

 a woody stock. Leaves oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spathulate, entire 

 or retuse, glabrous, fleshy, with the petiole 1-2J in. in length. Scape 

 erect, snbterete, smooth, glabrous, ^1 ft. in height, all the branches 

 usually floriferons. Inner bracts glabrous or nearly so, coriaceons, 

 smooth, with scarious margin, about 3 times longer than the outer. 

 Calyx more or less pilose below ; margin with shallow rotundate- deltoid 

 lobes.— /S. Bovei, Jaub. et Spach. 111. PI. Or. i. p. 157, t. 86. 



irile Xiand. Nubia and Abyssinia (Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. 288) Red Sea, 

 between 10°-12° N. Lat, Lord! 



Also at Aden. Dr. Anderson, in his ' Florula Adenensis,' p. 29, cites 8. lanceolata, 

 Edgew., as a synonym. Taxcmthemum attenuatum, R. Br. in Salt App. p. 64, is 

 probably referable to this species. 



2. PLUMBAGO, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 627. 



Calyx tubular, 5 -toothed, more or less clothed with prominent 

 stipitate glands. Corolla hypocrateriform. Stamens hypogynous. 

 Ovary narrowed into the slender style which divides above into 5 longi- 

 tudinally stigmatose branches. Capsule membranous, included in the. 

 persistent calyx. — Perennial herbs or shrubby occasionally scandent, 

 with alternate membr8[,nous entire leaves (aphyllous in one species) 

 and beautiful white, rose or blue flowers in terminal spikes. 

 A wide-spread genus in warm coimtries. 

 Leaves ovate; petiole narrow excepting at base. Calyx 



strongly glandular 1. P. zei/lanica. 



Leaves obovate-elliptieal ; petiole broadly winged. Calyx 



thinly glandular . . .* 2. P. aniplexicaulis. 



1. P. zeylanica, Linn. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii. 692. Shrubby, 

 with ascending or somewhat scandent terete longitudinally striate 

 branches. Leaves ovajte or ovate-lanceolate, acute, base rounded or 

 more or less cuneately narrowed into the petiole, the larger varying 

 from 1^ to 4 in, in length ; petiole narrow but amplexicaul at base and 

 occasionally auricled. Bracts ovate acuminate, ^-^ length of calyx ; 

 lateral bract^oles narrower. Calyx i in. long or thereabout, strongly 

 glandular-setose. Corolla white ; tube considerably exceeding the 

 calyx. — P. auricidata, Hochst. in Hb. Kotzsch. Nub. et (fide Rich.) in 

 Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 



Widely spread in Tropical Africa. I have not however seen specimens from 

 either the North or South Central divisions. 

 Also in Tropical Asia, Australia, &c. 



