306 Stapf . — The Statices of the Canaries of 
long, and in some of the blades there is an indication of lobing. A specimen 
cut from a plant in cultivation at Kew in Sir William Hooker’s time is 
almost a complete match of the figure in the Botanical Magazine, which 
was drawn from a plant grown in Edinburgh. Another specimen from 
a plant at Kew, but of recent cultivation is also very similar to the latter, 
but the lobing of the blade is more pronounced and extends to the decurrent 
base, and I might add, the blades are somewhat larger (up to 5 by 3 cm.). 
This deviation from the original type when under cultivation has a complete 
parallel in a specimen collected by Lowe (in 1858) on the ‘cliff above the 
Salinas, Haria,’ which is evidently the same locality as Webb’s and 
Berthelot’s on the Famara, the Salinas being situated on El Rio, close 
under the cliffs of the Famara. One of the leaves shows distinct lobing at 
the base, and one or the other of the primary branches of the panicle is 
narrowly winged. On the other hand, Low also collected with it a barren 
rosette agreeing exactly with Webb’s originals from Graciosa. This marks, 
so far as we can safely say at present, the range of variation such as may 
be considered as the direct result of external conditions, and it was necessary 
to mention those details in order to appreciate the position of another form 
from the same locality, and generally admitted as a distinct species, viz. 
Statice Bourgaei. Its history is briefly this. In 1845 Bourgeau collected 
in the island of Lanzarote, in a place ‘ Los tanques de Famara,’ a plant 
which he distributed as Statice puberula (No. 335). In the following year 
he issued it again (No. 564), but this time as Statice Bourgeaei (sic), Webb, and 
with the indication ‘ in rupestribus Famara.’ The two plants are absolutely 
identical, and differ from the original Statice pnberula in being 4-5 dm. high, 
and correspondingly more robust, and in having very much larger leaves, 
the blades measuring up to 10 cm. by 8 cm., and varying from ovate to 
suborbicular or elliptic-oblong with a suddenly contracted, decurrent, and 
usually sinuately-lobed base. The primary axis, and some of the primary 
branches of the inflorescence, are narrowly and unequally winged. The 
indumentum is of the same nature as in Webb’s Statice puberula , and the 
flowers also agree perfectly with those of that plant. Boissier gave a full 
description of Statice Bourgaei , Webb, in 1848 l , based on Bourgeau’s 
No. 564, whilst he refers, curiously enough, No. 335 to Statice puberula. He 
describes the leaves much as I have done in the preceding lines, and adds 
that the flowers are twice as large as those of Statice pubertila. Neither 
this statement nor the indication of certain minor differences in the 
characters of the bracts are borne out by the material at my disposal. 
Statice Bourgaei was raised at Kew from seeds communicated by Bourgeau. 
It flowered here for the first time in 1859. A specimen cut from it in 1861 
might be described as a reduced and glabrescent edition of Bourgeau’s 
No. 564, the largest blade measuring only 10 by 5 cm. To judge, however, 
1 Boissier, 1 . c., p. 638. 
