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Statice Suworowi, Eegel (fig. 496). 



Primary root as in S. speciosa ; annual. 



Hypocotyl subterranean, tapering, 3 mm. long. 



Cotyledons linear- spathulate, obtuse, glabrous, narrowed to a 

 petiole, 7'5 mm. long including the petiole, T75 mm. wide near 

 the apex. 



Stem herbaceous, annual. 



Leaves as in last species ; soft, 

 fleshy in the young state ; petioles 

 grooved above, convex on the back, 

 dilated and sheathing at the base. 



No. 1. Small, spathulate-linear. 



No. 2. Nai'rowly spathulate, ob- 

 tuse. 



No. 3. Spathulate, subacute. 



No. 4. Spathulate, aristate, scal- 

 loped at the base with a rounded lobe 

 on each side ; lobes always alternate 

 on all the following leaves. 



No. 5. Oblong, aristate, constricted 

 below the middle ; terminal lobe ovate ; 

 lower one subrhomboid, slightly de- 

 current on the petiole. 



Nos. 6-8. Narrowly oblong, scalloped with rounded lateral lobes, 

 ajid an ovate aristate terminal one. 



Ultimate leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, aristate at 

 the apex, scalloped or subpinnatifid, with alternate or sub-oppo- 

 site, obtuse lobes, obscurely and alternately penninerved, with 

 ascending nerves running into the lobes. 



Statiee leptostachya, Boiss. 



Primary root slender, tapering downwards, with numerous 

 slender lateral rootlets, annual. 



Hypocotyl not developed or tapering into, and indistinguishable 

 from the root. 



Cotyledons linear, obtuse, tapering into a long petiole-like base, 

 slightly channelled above, and much dilated at the extreme base, 

 glabrous but with small depressions on the upper surface, and pro- 

 minences towards the top, green with a reddish base, 1-4-1-6 cm. 

 long, -5-1 mm. wide. 



Stem extremely short, herbaceous, annual, and throwing up a 

 scape when about to flower. Internodes undeveloped. 



Leaves radical, glabrous, but covered with minute, scale-like 



FIG. 496. Statice Suworowi 

 Nat. size. 



