the Subsection Nobiles. II. 
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of Orotava, whilst in Broussonet’s locality at Cape Teno we have an 
indication of a western area where Statice macrophylla has become extinct 
within the last hundred years. 
As to Mann’s La Longuera station I have made some suggestions on 
p. si 1. Dr. Perez has since written that he still thinks Mann meant 
La Longuera on the Burgado Cove where he also gathered Statice arborea. 
From Dr. Perez’s remarks it would, however, appear that Statice arborea 
was not wild there, but grown by a peasant near his cottage, and this may 
also have been the case with Mann’s Statice macrophylla. 
I have mentioned above a ‘ variety (?) sinuata ’ of Statice macrophylla. 
It was described by Boissier 1 from a specimen received in 1846 by 
Bourgeau from S. Isidro in Gran Canaria. Through the courtesy of 
Mr. W. Barbey I have been able to examine the type of this variety. It 
exactly matches the Teneriffe specimens of Statice macrophylla with the 
exception of the wider and undulate axial wings. Bourgeau on his label 
says ‘ Je ne sais pas s’il est cultfve.’ Now, there is in the Kew Herbarium 
a typical specimen of Statice macrophylla gathered nine years earlier by 
Kirkman Finlay (a correspondent of Sir William Hooker) in ‘ Mr. Duthie’s 
grounds ’ in Gran Canaria. This I take to be from a cultivated plant, and 
so was in all probability Bourgeau’s. 
The date of introduction of Statice macrophylla into English horticulture 
is given as 1824 by Loudon 2 , and' the introduction itself is credited to 
4 Mr. Smith of the Botanic Gardens of Hull’ by Sir William Hooker 3 . It 
seems to have gone out of cultivation long ago, or has, at any rate, become 
very rare. 
Statice imbricata. 
If Statice arborea exists at present only in a stunted form in the 
extreme west of Teneriffe, and Statice macrophylla is confined to a narrow 
belt on the north-east coast, Statice imbricata occupies geographically an 
intermediate position. It was discovered by Broussonet on El Roque de 
Garachico, a rock in the sea opposite to the town of Garachico. Here 
Webb found it again about thirty years later, but it w r as not made known 
until 1844 when F. de Girard 4 described it, taking up Webb’s manuscript 
name. Webb and Berthelot 5 also observed it 4 capris tonsam 5 on a spot 
between the Villa Fuente del Cuerbo and the sea, two kilometres to the 
north-west of the town of Buena Vista. It still was there or in the immediate 
neighbourhood on sea cliffs in 1855, when Perraudiere collected it. A third 
locality was discovered by Bourgeau in 1846, a few kilometres east of 
1 Boissier, 1. c. p. 637. 2 Loudon, Hortus Britannicus (ed; 1830), p. 115. 
3 W. Hooker in Botanical Magazine, tab. 4125 (1844b 
4 Girard in Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 3 mc serie, ii (1844), P* 33°* 
5 Webb and Berthelot, 1. c. Ill, iii, p. 179. 
