LXXXVI. PLUMBAGINEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 479 



1. JEQIALITIS, E. />'/-. 



A glabrous shrub. Leaves alternate, broad, coriaceous ; petiole dilated at 

 base, auiplexicaid. Racemes panicled ; bract sheathing the pedicel and includ- 

 ing the 2 bracteoles. Calyx tubular, tough, 5-ribbed ; teeth 5, short. Petals 

 linear, white, connate at base with the filaments into a persistent tube, deciduous 

 above the tube. Anthers oblong. Styles distinct, from the angles of the ovary ; 

 stigmas capitate. Fruit (in &. annulata) linear, long-exserted from the calyx, 

 slightly pentagonal, dehiscing finally along the angles. Seed elongate, albumen 0. 

 Species 2, littoral, an Australian and a Malayan. 



JE. rotundifolia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. Ill ; leaves orbicular base mostly 

 rounded, calyx in., young capsule ovoid pentagonal. Wall. Ca>. 7240; Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 207. M. anuulat'a, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. ii. 217, and For. Fl. ii. 

 96, not of JR. Br. ^Egianilites rotundifolia, Presl Bot. Bermerk. 103. 



Mangrove swamps ; BENGAL ; abundant. MERGTFI ; Griffith. ANDAAIANS ; Kurz. 

 MALACCA ; Griffith. 



Height 3-8 ft. Leaves 2-3 in. ; petiole 2 in. Bract in. ; pedicels stout, 

 Young capsule \ by - in., shining, horny ; endocarp very tough, spongy. Seed 

 narrowly oblong. This plant has been united with the Australian M. annulata, K. 

 Br. (DC. Prodr. xii. 621) ; in which the calyx hardly exceeds in. The ripe fruit of 

 the Indian species is unknown ; but the young capsules are much broader than in the 

 fruit of M. annulata at any stage. Corolla-tube in. long, in M. annulata a mere 

 ring. 



2. ACANTHOLIIVION, Boiss. 



Small, prickly shrubs. Leaves crowded, linear, spinescent. Scapes many- 

 flowered ; rachis brittle, simple or dichotomous ; bracts usually 3. Calyx-tube 

 cyliudric, 10-ribbed; limb widely funnel-shaped, scarious, subentire, with 5 

 sometimes excurrent nerves. Petals oblong or obovate, united shortly at the 

 base into a tube with the stamens, rose or white, contorted in bud. Filaments 

 linear ; anthers oblong. Styles distinct, at the angles of the ovary ; stigmas 

 capitate. Utricle included within the calyx, oblong or pentagonal, membranous ; 

 seed more or less albuminous. Species 80, Greece to Kashmir, most numerous 

 in Persia. 



A. lycopodioides, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 632; leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, spikes dichotomous short, bracts coriaceous with hyaline margins, ribs 

 of the wide-spreading calyx-limb glabrous. Bunge Acanthol. 20. A. tibeticum, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. Statice lycopodioides, Girard in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3, ii. 

 330, excl. syn. Willd. 



NORTH KASHMIR; alt. 11-14,000 ft, frequent, Thomson., &c. DISTEIB. Kasbgar. 



Densely tufted. Leaves 1 by ~ in., needle-pointed. Scapes 1-2 in., minutely 

 scabrous. Bracts by in., inner wholly scarious except the midrib. Calyx-tube 

 -i in., pilose without; limb white, subtruncate. Petals \ in., rose-red. 



3. STATICE, Linn. 



Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate, radical often rosulate, entire (in 

 the Indian species), not spinescent. Scapes branched, many-flowered ; bracts 

 small, amplexicaul, margins scarious. Calyx tubular or funnel-shaped ribbed ; 

 limb scarious, spreading, 6-nerved, sometimes laciniate or plumose. Petals 

 spathulate-oblong, entire or bipartite, united at base into a short tube with the 

 stamens. Styles distinct, at the angles of the ovary ; stigmas subcapitate. 

 Utricle included within the calyx, oblong fusiform, membranous ; seed more or 

 Jess albuminous. Sgeciea 100, cosmopolitan, especially in saline places. 



