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of the Subsection Nobiles. 
Statice arborea , the name (not 5 . arborescens ) which Broussonet had used 
on the labels of the specimens of his own herbarium as well as of the 
duplicates which he gave away. This being the first description of Statice 
arborea , Broussonet also had the credit of the discovery. The locality 
where he found the plant was not known, or rather it was assumed that it 
was the same as Masson’s. Through the courtesy of Prof. Flahault, I had, 
however, an opportunity of seeing Broussonet’s own specimens, and found 
that he gives it as ‘ Sur les rochers au-dessus de la maison a Daute.’ Daute, 
or El Daute, is a place about i km. to the west of Garachico, and 18 km. to 
the west of the Burgado Cove. It has not been found again there, and evi- 
dently disappeared long ago from that neighbourhood, a district covered with 
vineyards. When Leopold von Buch stayed in Teneriffe in 1815, he found 
Statice arborea growing in gardens at Fuente del Rey, between Orotava 
and Realejo, but, as he adds, ‘ nowhere wild V I have, however, already 
mentioned that it was in 1829 rediscovered by Berthelot and Webb on the 
same cliffs in the Burgado Cove where Masson collected it, and it was still 
growing in that locality in 1858 when Lowe gathered it there. A slight 
extension of this very small Burgado area became known through Webb, 
who, in 1845, obtained from Bourgeau specimens of Statice arborea from 
‘rupibus Teneriffae (genitive) oppositis’ (that is, opposite to the two 
Burgado cliffs 2 ), or, as Bourgeau himself says on the label (No. 65), from 
‘ La Dehesa de los Frayles.’ Here, on the mainland, Dr. Perez places also 
Gustav Mann’s locality, ‘ La Longera,’ where he collected Statice arborea 
in 1863. Since then it has not been recorded again from the cliffs in the 
Burgado Cove, and Dr. Perez states positively that it has disappeared 
altogether 3 . I may also add here that it was from the same spot that the 
plants were derived which Webb sent home — the first in 1829 4 — and which 
created such sensation when they flowered for the first time 5 . 
Up to 1845 or 1846, when Berthelot and Webb issued the part of their 
Phytographie des lies Canaries that contained the descriptions of the Canarian 
Statices, there was no doubt about the homogeneous character of Statice 
arborea as a species, although Webb, in the later part of the Phytographie 6 , 
had revived Broussonet’s catalogue name Statice arborescens in preference to 
Statice arborea , which was up till then in general use, and justly so. In 1846, 
however, E. Bourgeau, whose name is so intimately connected with the 
1 L. von Buch, Physikalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln (1825), p. 137. See also 
note 1, p. 205. 
2 Berthelot et Webb, 1 . c., Ill, iii, p. 180. 
3 Perez in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 3rd ser., xxxvi (1904), p. 419. 
4 Loudon, Encyclopaedia of Plants, 1855, P* I 33 °- 
5 This is a passage by Lindley from Botanical Register, 1839, C referring to a specimen 
exhibited by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. : ‘ 6 ft. high, and covered with large clusters of flowers, 
the brilliancy of whose blue neither precious stones nor metallic preparations could even approach ’ ! 
For this plant the Gold Banksian Medal was awarded (Proc. Hort. Soc. London, 1838, p. 10). 
6 Berthelot et Webb, 1 . c., Ill, iii, p. 180, tab. 194. 
