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larger, while succeeding ones are scalloped or repandly pinna- 

 tifid. The cotyledons of Statice leptostachya are long and 

 narrowly linear, while all the leaves are pinnatisect with linear 

 segments. 



Statice speciosa, L. (fig. 495). 



Primary root slender, tapering, with a few lateral rootlets. 

 Hypocotyl usually subterranean, tapering downwards, 4 mm. 

 long. 



Cotyledons spathulate, obtuse, glabrous, 

 fleshy, dotted on the upper surface with a white 

 excretion, otherwise deep green, T25 cm. long 

 including the petiole, 4 mm. wide about the 

 middle of the lamina. 

 Stem very short. 



Leaves simple, entire, radical, alternate, ex- 

 stipulate, sessile, glabrous, opaque, coriaceous, 

 glaucous-green above, and closely dotted with 

 a white excretion, much paler beneath, taper- 

 i n g gradually to the base, forming a broad- 

 winged petiole-like stalk, shallowly grooved 

 above, dilated and sheathing at the base. 

 No. 1. Spathulate, obtuse, obscurely apiculate. 

 Nos. 2 and 3. Spathulate, obtuse, apiculate, tapering to a narrow 

 base. 



Ultimate leaves obovate- spathulate, cuspidately acute, sub- 

 cartilaginous at the margin, obscurely alternately penninerved with 

 the nerves ascending, then spreading and lastly somewhat in- 

 curved. 



Statice macrophylla, Brouss., var. flabellata. 



Hypocotyl very short, erect, terete, glabrous, reddish. 



Cotyledons spathulate, obtuse, minutely emarginate with a dis- 

 tinct midrib, glabrous, light green, 1-7 cm. long. 



Stem very short, developing slowly, and becoming woody ; 

 primary internodes undeveloped. 



Leaves radical and ultimately cauline, ciliate, otherwise glabrous, 

 aristate at the apex, with i distinct midrib, and indistinctly alter- 

 nately penninerved, light green ; petioles flattened above, dilated 

 and clasping at the base, ciliate at the margin. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Rotund, cuneate at the base. 



No. 3. Broadly obovate, rounded at the apex, cuneate or tapering 

 at the base. 



