480 LXXXVI. PLUMBAGINEJB. (C. B. Clarke.) [Statice. 



SECT. I. Limonium. Petals entire or emarginate. 



1. S. Stocks!!, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 664; leaves spathulate-oblong 

 glabrous fleshy, calyx pilose without limb subtruncate. Wiglvb HI. ii. 225, t. 

 178 ? Hook. Ic. PL t. 837 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 868. 



SCINDE ; Stocks, Dalzett. DISTRIB. Beloo -histan. 



Height 6-10 in.; branches woody, leafy. Leaves f by in., obtuse, tapering 

 much at the base; petiole hardly any. Scapes dividing into a secund panicle ; bracts 

 in., elliptic, herbaceous, reddish. Calyx | in., ribs long-ciliate. Petals longer than 

 the calyx, entire or emarginate, rose-pink. Anthers long-exsert. 



2. S. cabulica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 666 ; leaves all radical rosulate 

 spathulate-oblong obtuse mucronate, panicle large dichotomous, branches long, 

 calyx minutely pilose witho-it, limb at first subtruncate ultimately with linear 

 recurved divisions. Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 871. 



PUNJAB ; Jhelum valley and lower hills west of the Indus, alt. 2-4000 ft., Stewart. 

 DISTKIB. Afghanistan. 



Annual. Leaves 1^ by f in., densely rosulate. Scape 1-3 ft., solitary, erect, 

 glabrous ; flowers subsessile, scattered along the branches ; bracts in., ovate or 

 oblong, obtuse, mucronate, coriaceous, scarious margin narrow. Calyx-tube \-^ in., 

 very narrow ; limb at first funnel-shaped, subtruncate. scarious, with 5 ribs ; in fruit 

 the membranous portion breaks up and almost entirely disappears, the 5 ribs are 

 recurved. 



SECT. II. Schizopetalum. Petals bifid half-way down. 



3. S. macrorrhabdos, Boiss. Diagn. 2, iv. 67, and Fl. Orient, iv. 869 ; 

 var. Thomsoni, Clarke; leaves all radical rosulate spathulate-orbicular obtuse 

 or emarginate rarely minutely mucronate, calyx with tufts of small spreading 

 hairs. Statice, sect. Schizopetali sp. altera, Hook. f. in Gen. PL ii. 626. 



WEST TIBET ; Falconer ; Ladak, T. Thomson. Baltisthan, alt. 9000 ft., Clarke. 



Annual. Leaves 2 by l|-2 in. Scapes 1-3 ft., glabrous ; flowers in clusters of 

 2-4, sessile along the branches ; bract.s | in., ovate, mucronate, coriaceous with 

 scarious margin. Calyx-tube ^ in , limb funnel-shaped, truncate, scarious, 5-ribbed. 

 Petals divided to the base of the lamina into two lanceolate- linear divisions. This 

 was considered specifically distinct from S. macrorrhabdos (a native of Affghanistan 

 and Beloochistan) by Sir J. D. 1L, and would be so according to Boissier's views. 



4. FLUBIBAGO, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs : branches diffuse. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers 

 spiked ; bracts and bracteoles shorter than the calyx. Calyx tubular, covered 

 with stalked glands; limb 5-fid. Corolla-tube long, slender; lobes 5, round, 

 patent. Stamens free ; filaments linear, dilated at base ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 r arrowed at the apex ; style slender, with 5 terminal branches stigmatose 

 nearly throughout their length. Capsule membranous, circumsciss near the 

 base. Species 10, warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



1. I", zeylanica, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. xii. 692 ; leaves ovate suddenly 

 narrowed into the petiole, rachis of the spike pubescent or glandular, corolla 

 white, base of style glabrous. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13, and FL 2nd. i. 462 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 7241 ; Wight III. t. 179 ; Date. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 220; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. SOP. 1877, ii. 217; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 875. P. auriculata, Blume Bijd. 

 736. Thela alba, Lour. FL Cochinch. 119. Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 8. 



Throughout INDIA, much cultivated and readily spreading ; wild in the south. 

 Kurz thinks not wild in Birma ; Watt thinks wild in Bengal. DISTRIB. Throughout 

 the tropics of the Old Woild. . . - . 



