234 
FLORA OF ADEN. 
Flowers capitate or spic ate ; spikes solitary or panicled. Calyx inferior, 
gamosepalous, tubular or infundibuliform, more or less distinctly 5-lobed. 
Corolla hypogynous, gamopetalous, hypocrateriform, or petals nearly 
or wholly free, oblanceolate or obovate, imbricate. Stamens as many as 
and opposite to corolla-lobes or petals, adnate to the base of the tube or 
claw, or inserted with the petals on a narrow hypogynous ring. Ovary 
free, 1 -celled, often 5-sulcate ; styles 5, free from the base or more or less 
connate ; ovule solitary, anatropous, suspended from a long basal 
funicle. 
Fruit dry, dehiscent or indehiscent; seeds with or without albumen; 
embryo straight. 
Genera 8 ; species about 200. 
Distribution : —More or less throughout the world, chiefly maritime 
or in saline or rocky deserts. 
1. Statice L. 
Usually perennial herbs from a woody or wiry stock, or more or 
less shrubby and diffusely branched. Leaves alternate, often rosulate 
or fascicled, linear-spathulate to obovate. 
Flowers in unilateral, bracteate, panicled spikes. Calyx funnel- 
shaped or tubular ; limb plicate, hyaline or scarious, 5-toothed or 
lobed. Petals 5, either free from the base, or the base of the claws 
connate in a ring, oblanceolate or obcaudate. Stamens adnate to the 
base of the petals. Styles free from the base or nearly so. 
Utricle indehiscent, or circumsciss or variously fissured. Seed filling 
the cell, more or less albuminous. 
Species about 100. 
Distribution ' — Cosmopolitan on sea-shores and in salt-marches. 
Leaves not cylindrical . . . . . . 1. S. axillaris. 
Leaves cylindrical . . . . . . . 2. S. cylindrifolia. 
1. Statice axillaris Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 58 ; DC. Prodr. XII, 
■663 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 868; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. 
p. 29 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. Ill, 486. 
Statice Bovei Jaub. et Spach. 111. PL Or. I, 157, tab. 86. 
Statice lanceolata Edgew. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XVI, 1218. 
Description: — A low, glabrous shrub with decumbent or ascending 
leafy branches or scapes erect from a woody stock. Leaves oblanceo- 
late or oblanceolate-spathulate, entire or retuse, glabrous, fleshy, 
