Plate 40. 
PROFITSE-FLO WERED STATIGE. 
Statice prof us a. 
This handsome Statice, which is of hybrid origin, was raised 
in the Lothians, and first made its appearance in the south at 
the exhibition of the Royal Botanic Society, in May last, when 
it was exhibited by Messrs. Parker and Williams, of Holloway, 
who hold the larger portion of the stock, and whose plants 
furnished the specimens from which our figure and description 
are taken. It was on this occasion rewarded by a medal. Sub¬ 
sequently, in the month of November, two very finely-grown 
plants, covered with flowers in all stages, were exhibited at a 
meeting of the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, on which occasion it was commended as a very useful 
ornamental plant. These specimens, it was reported, had been 
continuously in bloom for fifteen months previously, and they 
were rewarded specially for this perpetual blooming habit. 
The parents of Statice profusa are S. puberula and S. Halfor- 
dii , the latter a garden variety or hybrid, less robust than S. ma- 
crophylla , but partaking of the character of that species, from 
which it appears to have originated. S. profusa is intermediate 
in size and habit between its parents, being larger in growth, 
and having longer leaves and taller stems than puberula , and 
being smaller than Halfordii , with the leaves much narrower 
Plate 40.—Statice proeusa: hybrid between puberula and Halfordii; 
suffrutescent; leaves oblong or spathulately oblong-obovate, subundulate, sub- 
sinuated, somewhat scabrous, ciliated, and furnished with scattered stellate 
hairs on both surfaces; scape ancipital or narrowly winged, corymbosely 
branched, slightly hairy below, more so upwards, the branchlets springing 
from ovate, carinate, pubescent, ciliated, aristato-mucronate bracts, resembling 
the outer pair at the base of each flower; inner floral bract cylindraceo-trun* 
cate, pubescent, ciliated, carinate, the midrib evanescent near the apex. 
