3°4 Stapf . — The Statices of the Canaries of 
Tacoronte and known as La Hondura. Here, too, it grew on sea cliffs. 
La Hondura is some kilometres to the west of the valley of La Goleta 
as marked in Webbs map, and therefore near the western end of the area 
of Statice macrophylla . The three little areas inhabited at present by 
Statice imbricata are therefore from west to east : (i) The sea cliffs of 
Buena Vista, about 7-8 km. east of Punta de Teno ; (2) El Roque de 
Garachico, about 8-9 km. farther east, and (3) La Hondura near Taraconte, 
about 30 km. east of Garachico. 
Statice imbricata is little known in cultivation. PVom notes by Don 1 
and Nicholson 2 it would appear that it was introduced by Webb in 1829 ; 
but in 1848 it was spoken of and figured in Flore des Serres 3 as a new 
introduction, and it was stated that the plants were raised from seeds sent 
to Europe in 1846 by Webb’s collector, which evidently means Bourgeau. 
Statice brassicifolia. 
In 1845 Bourgeau discovered two Statices in the islands of Gomera 
and Hierro respectively, which were described by Webb 4 as Statice 
brassicaefolia (sic) and Statice macroptera. He admitted, however, their great 
similarity and left it to future explorers to examine whether they were not 
forms of one species. I may remark at once that specimens collected since 
then leave no doubt that the plants which Webb described as Statice 
brassicifolia and Statice macroptera were merely slight variations of what 
most botanists would consider as one species, differing in stature, pubescence, 
and width of the axial wings and the subfloral auricles. This view is 
supported by Perraudiere’s discovery (1855) °f Statice brassicifolia in the 
locus classicus of Statice macroptera. The differences should, however, not 
be entirely disregarded, as they seem to be constant, at least within certain 
limits. Thus specimens raised at Kew from seeds gathered by Bourgeau 
in Gomera, the locus classicus of Statice brassicifolia , preserved the general 
facies of that form, which in contradistinction from Statice macroptera is 
determined mainly by narrower axial wings and subfloral auricles, and by 
slightly denser pubescence. One of the Kew specimens was figured in the 
Botanical Magazine (tab. 5162) in i860 — that is fifteen years after Bourgeau’s 
discovery — and the figure agrees entirely with Webb’s plate of Statice 
brassicifolia. On the other hand, there is a specimen in the Temperate 
House at Kew, labelled 1 Statice brassicifolia , garden origin,’ which combines 
the wider, deeply-lobed wings of Statice macroptera with the smaller and 
more pubescent auricles of Statice brassicifolia. ' This specimen, the history 
of which I have not been able to trace, may be a descendant of the Gomera 
1 Don, Hortus Cantabrigiensis, 13th ed. (1845), P* 187. 
2 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii. p. 492. 3 Flore des Serres, iv (1848), PI. 320-321. 
4 Webb and Berthelot, 1 . c., Ill, iii, pp. 181, 182. 
