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glaucous, attenuate into the petiole ; petiole fuscous at the base, 
sheathing the stem ; scape axillary or subterminal, paniculate, subte- 
rete, smooth, glabrous, 1 foot high. 
Flowers in compound spikes ; spikelets 2 — -3-flowered. Bracts 
persistent, coriaceous, fuscous ; inner bracts glabrous or nearly so, 
smooth, with scarious margin, about 3 times longer than the outer. 
Calyx infundibuliform, more or less pilose below, persistent, 5-costate ; 
margin with shallow rotundate-deltoid lobes. 
Flowers : — Nov. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1847 (Hook.), Dec. 1889 
(Defl.), February 1851 (Thomson), April 1861 (Thomson). 
Locality: — On the sea-shore, top of Shum Shum Range (Edgew., 
Hook., Thomson, Madden, Anders.); Wadi Maala, near the coal- 
dep6t of the Messag. Marit. (Schweinf.) ; plain of Maala (Defl.) ; 
upper end of great valley between Steamer Point and town (Marche- 
setti) ; slope of Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck, Busse) ; without 
locality (Birdw., Wichura, Hildebrandt) . 
Distribution : — Yemen, Socotra, highlands of Somaliland, Eritrea, 
Nubia. 
2. Statice cylinclrifolia Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 59 ; DC. Prodr. 
XII, 664 ; Yahl Symb. I, 26 tab. 10. 
Arabic name : — Tissumm (in S. Arabia). 
Description .‘--Branches shrubby, leafless at the base, leafy in the 
upper part. Leaves fleshy, terete, linear-cylindric, obtuse, mucronulate, 
pruinose, straight or incurved, slightly thicker in the upper part, 
dilate at the base into a short amplexicaul fuscous sheath ; axillary 
branches short flexuose. 
The 2-flowered spikelets distichously arranged forming short 
secondary spikes ; bracts obtuse, membranous, outer one rounded, upper 
one oblong, with the margins involute, including the flowers. Calyx- 
tube glabrous, fuscous ; limb whitish, 5-lobed, with 5 fuscous nerves. 
Locality : — Eastern shore of the isthmus between Barrier-Gate and 
the village of Migrad (Hildebrandt, Schweinf., Defl.) . 
Distribution :■ — Yemen, Socotra, Eritrea. 
Note:— In Kew Herbarium there is under the name of Statice 
axillaris , a coloured sketch by Colonel Playfair of an Aden plant which 
shows greater resemblance with Statice cylinclrifolia than with S. 
axillaris. Balfour, however (in c Botany of Socotra/ p. 149), did not like 
to call it S. cylinclrifolia , because he had not seen specimens of such a 
