148 BOTANY OF SOCOTRA. 



Distrib. Tropical Africa (Upper Guinea). 



Our plant has leaves rather larger than in the type. 



2. CAMPANULA. 



Campanula, Linn. Gen. n. 218 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 561. 



A very large genus of herbs, distributed in the northern hemisphere, 

 especially abundant in the eastern portion of the Mediterranean region. 



C. dichotoma, Linn. Amoen. iv. 306 ; DC. Prod. vii. 462 ; Boiss. Flor. 

 Orient, iii. 929. 



Socotra. Common on dry hill slopes. B.C.S. n. 288. 



Distrib. Canary Islands, Mediterranean region, and Syria. 



Our Socotran plant appears very different from the type of this species, 

 having much smaller flowers and the calyx lobes less longly appendaged, 

 besides being altogether a more delicate plant. In these characters it 

 resembles the Algerian form described by Boissier and Reuter (Pug. Plant. 

 Nov. Afr. Bor. (1852), 75), as C. Kremeri, which is really a variety of C. 

 dichotoma. Our plant, is, however, a smaller form of the species than that is. 

 C. rigidiplia, Hochst. et Steud. (in herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. i. n. 167; Hemsley 

 in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. iii. 482), an Abyssinian plant, is an allied species, 

 especially through the form referred to it by Hemsley, C. sarmentosa, Hochst. 

 {Joe. cit., sect. ii. n. 1380), but it is a perennial, equally variable, however, both 

 in size of flower and general robustness with our plant. 



Order XXXVIII. PLUMBAGINE^]. 



A small family of herbaceous, sometimes shrubby or half-shrubby, plants, 

 widely spread over the globe. Of the two Socotran genera, one has nearly the 

 distribution of the order, the other is restricted to a few districts on the shores 

 of the Indian Ocean. 



1. STATICE. 



Stalice, Linn. Gen. n. 388, pro parte; Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 335 ; Benth. et Hook, Gen. PI. 

 ii. 625. 



A large cosmopolitan genus of sea-shore and desert plants, but most abund- 

 ant in the northern hemisphere of the old world. 



1. S. axillaris, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt. Arab. 58; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii. 

 663 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. (1860), Suppl. 29 ; Oliv. Flor. Trop. 

 All-, iii. 486; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 868. 



S. Bovei, Jaub. et Spach HI. PI. Or. i. 157, t. 86. 



*S. arabica, Jaub. et Spach he. cit., 156, t. 85 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 868. 



