The Statices of the Canaries of the Subsection 
Nobiles. II. 
BY 
OTTO STAPF, F.L.S. 
Principal Assistant , Herbarium , Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew. 
With a Map in the Text. 
I N the first part of this paper (pp. 206-12 of the present volume) I have 
discussed the history and distribution of Statice arborea. I propose now 
to deal in a similar way with the other Statices of the Nobiles group and 
sum up their principal characters in a sort of expanded key, reserving the 
description of the hybrids and a paragraph of a more general character for 
a third and concluding part. 
Statice macrophylla. 
This has already been mentioned in the first part of my paper. It is 
a very distinct and, apart from the variety (?) simiata to which I refer later 
on, perfectly homogeneous species. Unlike Statice arborea it is still flourish- 
ing, although confined to a narrow belt on the north-east coast of the island. 
It was discovered by Broussonet, who is probably the author of the name 
Statice macrophylla , although he never published it. The first description, 
a very short diagnosis, was by Sprengel 1 in 1825. He, however, attributed 
the name to Willdenow and not to Broussonet, as is usually quoted. On 
the other hand, Steudel 2 coupled it with Link’s name; but neither 
Willdenow nor Link published anything on the subject. Broussonet’s 
specimens of Statice macrophylla which were in the Montpellier herbarium 
have been lost. Boissier seems to have seen them, or at least some 
duplicates distributed by Broussonet, as he quotes them in his monograph 
of the Plumbagineae, confining himself, however, to the note ‘ In Teneriffa, 
Brouss. 3 ’ Fortunately an important record concerning them is preserved 
in F. de Girard’s manuscript of a memoir on Statice which was never 
1 Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, i, p. 959. 2 Steudel, Nomenclator Botanicus, ed. II, p. 633. 
3 Boissier in De Candolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Yegetabilis, xii (1848), p. 637. 
[ Annals of Botany, Vol. XX. No. LXXIX. July, 1906.] 
