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ANCHUSA italica. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BoRRAGINER. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. IV. Fructus gym- 
notetraspermus. ` Faux corolla instructa 5 squamis calcarum instar cavis, 
intra corollam prominulis in ejusdem laciniarum basi, extrà hiulcis. Herbe 
plerümque asperifolie. 
BORAGINER. Brown prod. 1. 492. 
ANCHUSA. Cal. 5-fidus s. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, fauce 
clausa fornicibus erectis, obtusis. uces 4, wniloculares, turbinate, fundo 
calycis affixa, basi concava perforate. Lehmann asperifol. 1. 211. 
Div. I, Calycibus 5-partitis in fructü erectis; corollis in pluribus inequa- 
pP ni Lehm. l. c. P met 
A. italica, caule erecto ramoso, foliis lanceolatis undulatis strigosis lucidis, 
racemis conjugatis divaricatis paniculatis bracteatis, calycibus tubo co- 
rollze subzequalis longioribus: laciniis subulatis, fornicibus penicilliformi- 
bus. Lehmann asperifol. 1. 230; (sub ANCHusá paniculata). 
Anchusa italica. Retz. obs. 1. 12; (cujus exemplar prototypum in Herb. 
Banks.) Trew pl. rar. 14. t.18. Willd. sp. pl 1. 756. Ejusd. enum. 
1.178. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 289. i 
Anchusa paniculata. Lehmann loc. cit. exclusis Hort. Kew. synonymisque 
omnibus ad plantam madeirensem orientalemque referentibus. 
Buglossum foliis linguiformibus asperis, spicis supremis gemellis. Hail. helv. 
n. 599; (exclusis synonymis). 
Buglossum italicum flore cæruleo Besleri. Hort. eystet. astiv. ord. 8. fol. 5. 
Buglossa vulgaris. Ger. emac. 798; cum ic. . 
Caulis erectus, strictus, teretiusculus, 2-3-pedalis et longior, ramosus, 
uti tota planta hispidus: pilis patentibus rigidis, tuberculis callosis insiden- 
tibus. mi patentes, in racemos abeuntes. Folia radicalia et caulina infe- 
riora petiolata, in petiolum supra planum attenuata, lanceolata, acuta, 
undulata ; superiora sessilia; summa basi cordato-ovata et ultra medium in 
acumen attenuata; omnia utrinque strigosa, profund? viridia, sublucida. 
Racemi caulem et ramos terminantes, bipartite flore centrali in dichotomid 
bracteis linearibus longitudine pedicellorum adspersi, luxi, divaricati, in 
summo caule paniculam constituentes. Pedicelli erecto-secundi, distantes. 
Calyces longitudine. pedicellorum, piloso-hispidi, usque ad basin 5-partiti: 
laciniis subulatis inequalibus. Cor. cerulea v. violacea; tubus cylindricus 
calyce brevior; limbus patens 5-partitus, laciniis inequalibus obovatis ro- 
tundato-obtusis.  Fornices erecti, penicilliformes. Nuces 4, ovato-oblonge, 
reticulato-rugose, basi margine turgido ciucte. Lehmann loc. cit. sub AN- 
CHUSA paniculata. 
A species judiciously distinguished from officinalis and 
angustifolia by Retzius, whose prototype specimen 18 pre- 
served in the Banksian Herbarium; where we find also that 
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