Statice arborea. Arboreus statice with white flowers. This species of Statice is a native to Tenerife and was discovered there by Mr. Webb. It is a luxuriant branching shrub that grows up to 2 meters high, and produces profuse panicles up to 1 meter long with new white flowers from lilac calyxes daily.. Illustration by Miss Jane Taylor (active 1836~1842), painter of still lives and contributor of flower drawings to the Society of British Artists in London.. Benjamin Maund's The Botanist was a five-volume series that introduced 250 new plants from 1836 to 1842. The series is notable for its many female artists: the plates were drawn by Maund's daughters Sarah and Eliza, Augusta Withers, Priscilla Bury, Jane Taylor, Miss R. Mills among others. The other characteristic is partial colouring - many of the finely detailed copperplate engravings are left with part of the flower and leaves uncoloured.