382 Plumbaginacea Statice. 



S. Gmellni is a similar species from the same region as the 

 last. S. lati 'folia is a large-growing species from Southern 

 Kussia, with ample oblong obtuse foliage and spreading pani- 

 cles of light blue flowers ; S. eximia, from Soongaria, has pink 

 or rosy flowers ; S. incana, from Egypt, crimson and white ; 

 and S. Fortunei^ a tender Chinese species, has yellow flowers. 



3. ACANTHOLlMON. 



A considerable genus of branching herbs with narrow linear 

 rigid often spinescent leaves and larger flowers in loose spikes. 

 The styles are united at the base, and the stigmas capitate, 

 differing in this respect from Statice, with which it was for- 

 merly combined. The species are nearly all from Western 

 Asia. The name is from atcavOa, a thorn, and Limonium, the 

 specific name of the common Statice. 



1. A. glumaceum, syn. Statice Arardti. A dwarf densely 

 branched evergreen herb with spinescent foliage and rosy 

 spicate flowers about 6 lines in diameter, and 6 to 8 in each 

 spikelet. A native of Armenia, flowering in Summer. 



A. venustum is a Persian species, larger than the preceding, 

 with from 12 to 20 flowers in each spikelet. 



4. VALOEADIA. 



A small genus of branching herbs and undershrubs with 

 'alternate fringed leaves and terminal and axillary dense heads 

 of flowers. Calyx tubular, 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped. 

 Stamens 5, hypogynous ; styles united. The species are from 

 Abyssinia and China. Name commemorative. 



1. F, plumbaginoldes, syn. Plumbago Larpentw. A showy 

 perennial from 1 to 2 feet high with obovate mucronate ciliate 

 scaly leaves and bright blue ultimately violet flowers, appearing 

 in Autumn. A native of Northern China. 



Plumbago Gapensis is a half-hardy procumbent or climbing 

 shrub with scaly leaves and spicate panicles of handsome azure 

 blue flowers, sometimes employed for bedding, etc. 



DIVISION III. APETALJE. 



Petals none (in those plants enumerated here) ; calyx 

 (perianth) sometimes coloured, composed of free or united 

 sepals (segments) in one series, or sometimes wanting altogether. 



