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ECHIUM grandiflorum. 
Long-flowered Viper's Bugloss. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Bonracinez. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. III. . 
. ` BoRAGINEE. — Cal. 5-divisus, (rarò 4-divisus,) per- 
sistens. Cor. hypogyna, 3-petala, sæpissimè regularis, 5-fida, nunc 
4-fida; æstivatione imbricata. Stam. epipetala, numero laciniarum et 
cum iis alternantia, rarò plura. Germ. 4-partitum, 4-spermum, v. sim- 
plex 2-4-loc., ovnlis definitis pendulis. Nucule 4, distinctee v, infra 
connatæ; nunc Drupa 4-loc. v. Bacca 2-4-pyrena. Sem. exalbuminosa, 
modb albumine lamelliformi, carnoso, mbryo inversus. Herbe v. 
frutices. Folia alterna, exstipulata, sep? aspera. Flores in spicis 
sepè secundi, nunc pauiculati, v. corymbosi, quandoque. axillares soli- 
tarii; Brown prod. 492.. ' 
ECHIUM. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 36. 
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E. grandiflorum, caule glabro, folis lanceolatis supra: scabris, floribus 
cymosis zqualibus, corollarum tubo longissimo. — P'enten. malmais. 
97. 
Echium grandiflorum. Andrews's repost. 20. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 
Echium formosum. Persoon syn. 1. 163.. . ; 
E. regulariflorum. Recens. pl. in reposit, botan. depict. 11. n. 42. —— | 
longitudi birie ialia, latitudi - ‘alia. Flores i, foli 
püsicula, secure nutartes, sicul. pheres terminales el pri pedun- 
culate, divaricato-dichotomer v. conjugate,. , alternd se 
d brevior, profund? partitus, segmentis lanceolatis, erecto-conniventibus, 
ena t margine api perire longiore. „Cor, ran, arw raderer 
> P. OT EINE: BEDI s biunrialfe, rectitséma] y ? 
pe osa gre ner mh è plicato-attenuatus, superna 
feplicto-ampliatw limbo longior, intus in medium aj supra germen 
hireutus ; ua palestianiwus laciniis. rotundatis, transverse joribus ef 
gentia, subassurgentia, pro terti sud parte adnata corolla, Stylus persistens 
A handsome-flowered shrubby species, introduced by 
the late Mr. Masson, from the Cape of Good Hope, in 
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