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ECHIUM fruticosum. 

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PENTANDRIA MOXOGYXIA. 



ECHIUM. (Fructus gynmo-tetraspermus. Faux corolla? inula.) 

 CaL 5-partitus. Cor. tubo brevi, limbo ampliore, campanulato, ob- 

 liqu£ 5-lobo inaequali. Stigma 2-fidtim. Flores spicatt ant spicato- 

 pawculati, in spiculis secundi. Species quadam suffrutescetites. Jussieu. 

 gen. 130. 



E. fruticosum, uncfique pubescens ; floribus in summis ramis laxe sub- 



corymboso-paniculatis ; tubo fimbria villosa 5-loba clauso : staminibus 



inclusis, inaequalissimis. 

 Echium fruticosum. Lin. sp. pi. 1. 199- Berg. cap. 39- Thunb. 



prod. 33. Hurt. Kezc. 1. 186. II Hid. sp.pl. 1. 782. Hort. Ken. 



ed. 2. 1. 298; (excluso Jacquino.) 

 E. caule fruticoso, ramis foliisque pilosis. Mill. diet. ed. 7 '. »• 7. 

 E. at'ricanum fruticans foliis pilosis. Comm. hort. 2. 107. t. 54. 



Frutex 3-pedalis, ramosus, cortice fusco ; rami albo-villosi, patentee. Folia 

 numerosa, non conjerta, sparsa, patentissima, coriaceo-crassa, elongato- 

 oblonga acumine brevi, deorsum subattenuata, sessilia, ex pnnctis elevatis 

 pdiferis villoso-strigosa, cana, avenia costa media subtiis prominula, l- c 2-un- 

 cialia, 2-4 lineas lata. Paniculae laxce ramorum terminates tandem corymboso- 

 Jastigiantes, singulce ex spicidis pluribus peduncnlatis axillaribus patentibus 

 scepe conjngatis, evolventibus sesejloribus sensim arrigendev. liracteae dimi- 

 nuto^fbliacece, persistentes. Flores suaveolentes, Jerme unciales, ante expli- 

 cationem roseo-rubentes, inde ccerulescentes. Cal. herbaceus, vix semuncialis, 

 subbilabiatus, hirsutus ; segmenta lineari-subulata, 2 summa proximiora 9 

 imum subminus. Cor. extus pubescens, turbinato-campanulata, bilabiato- 

 obliquata, nervis 5 albis equidistantibus striata ; lacimae breves, subsemiovato- 

 rotundatce, hummed 2 proximiores, porrectiores. Stam. ori villoso tubi angusti 

 brevissimi imposita, declinato-assurgentia, divergentia, union plurimum bre- 

 vius. Stylusjilamentis dnplo gracilior, fusino-Jilijormis, pro maxima sua parte 

 villosus, utrinque breviter attennatus fy glaber : stig. obtusum, levissimc 2- 

 jidum. 



^ We do not doubt that the present plant is the Echium 



fruticosum of the Hortus Kcuensis; but certainly have some 

 doubt whether that of Jacquin, admitted for a s\nonym 

 in the late edition of that work, is of the same species. 

 There the inflorescence terminates each branch in a simple 

 continuous scattered axillary upright spike of smaller 



' flowers, and the leaves are of a more ovate form and shorter. 



Spontaneous specimens of each have heen evidently grouped 

 together, as of one species, in the lianksian Herbarium. 



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