208 Staff .—The S/a/ices of the Canaries 
botanical exploration of the Canaries as of many other countries, dis- 
covered a Statice very similar to Statice arborea, but of smaller stature 
and, above all, with a much reduced stem, and distributed it as Statice 
fruticans , Webb. Of this specimens were sent, probably by Webb, to 
Van Houtte’s establishment in Ghent, where they flowered in 1847, 
and a description and figure were published by Lemaire 1 2 in the Flore des 
Serres early in the following year, the name being changed from Statice 
fruticans into Statice frutescens. The plants were not quite 6 dm. high, 
instead of 12-18 dm. as was the case with Statice arborea , and the leaves 
also were smaller than in that species. Soon after the publication of 
Lemaire’s Statice fruticans , vol. xii of De Candolle’s Prodr omits was 
issued, containing Boissiers monograph of the Plumbagineae. There the 
author, although aware of Lemaire’s publication, adopted Webb’s name 
Statice fruticans 2 for the supposed new species, and Statice arborescens , 
Brouss., for the old Statice arborea , but with this distinction, that he 
claimed the specimen which Willdenow had received from Broussonet for 
Statice fruticans , and he consequently quoted Statice arborea as synonym 
under Statice fruticans. Some specimen of Broussonet’s — it is not 
specified — was, however, still referred to Statice arborescens , that is the arbo- 
rescent, large-leaved plant, as represented in Webb’s own collecting and by 
the English illustrations 3 of Statice arborea . Bourgeau collected the plant, 
which thus became the Gype ’ of Statice frutescens , Lem. (= S. fruticans , 
Webb ex Boiss.), on a rocky promontory called El Freyle, not far from 
Cape Teno, the westernmost point of Teneriffe, and it is still there, or at any 
rate was there until quite recently, when the Rev. R. P. Murray gathered it 
in 1889. In 1855, however, H. de la Perraudiere (Bourgeau’s companion on 
his second journey to the Canaries) collected a Statice at ‘ P te Orotava, in 
scopulis maritimis,’ which in the Montpellier herbarium lies under the name 
Statice arborescens , Brouss., whilst it was distributed by Bourgeau (No. 1494) 
as Statice fruticans , the locality being quoted by him as ‘ Dehesa de los 
Frayles in rupibus maritimis.’ I have no doubt that Perraudiere’s plants 
came from the cliffs of the Burgado Cove, either those in the sea or those 
on the mainland opposite. These herbarium specimens of the Statice 
fruticans from Burgado are so similar to those from El Freyle that no 
botanist would hesitate to sort them together. If we admit Boissier’s 
distinction of Statice arborescens and Statice fruticans — or, as they should 
be called, for reasons of priority, Statice arborea and Statice frutescens — 
we find that both species grew together in the Burgado area as well 
1 Lemaire in Flore des Serres, 1st ser., iv (1848, March), tab. 325. 
2 Boissier in De Candolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, xii (1848), p. 636. 
3 Paxton, Magazine of Botany, iv (1838), tab. 217 ; Maund, The Botanist, i (1838), tab. 47 ; 
Botanical Register, xxv (1839), tab. 6; Botanical Magazine (1840), tab. 3776. See also Horti- 
culture Universelle, vi (1845), tab. 164. 
