Echinochilon.] LXXX1X, BORAGINEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 61 
bilabiate, irregular; upper lip erect, obscurely 2-lobed ; lower more 
spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 5, included in the corolla-tube ; filaments 
very short; anthers oblong. Ovary with 4 lobes attached to the conic 
gynobase; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed. Nuts 4, ovoid. Seed 
straight ; cotyledons entire.—Hispid perennials, with many alternate 
stem-leaves. Flowers small blue, arranged in leafy scorpioid spikes. 
Species 2, the other from Aden, 
1. E. fruticosum, Desf. FJ. Ailant. i. 167, ¢. 47. A dwarf 
much-branched perennial, with stems and leaves densely clothed with 
white bristly hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 3-6 lin. long. 
Flowers sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, crowded towards the 
tip of the branchlets. Calyx-segments 14 lin. long. Corolla-tube as 
long as the calyx ; limb bright blue, 2 lin. diam.—DC. Prodr. x. 27. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region near Ras Rauai, Schweinfurth, 2107 ! 
Also in North Africa and Syria. 
17. ECHIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 863. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments linear or lanceolate. Corolla-tube 
funnel-shaped, curved, the oblique throat not closed with scales ; lobes 
5, imbricate, orbicular, unequal. Stamens 5, unequally inserted 
below the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments filiform, often dilated 
at the base; anthers ovate or oblong, obtuse, small. Ovary with 4 
distinct lobes inserted on the narrow gynobase; style filiform, bifid at 
the apex; stigmas small. Nuts 4, distinct, erect, ovoid, rugose. Seeds 
erect ; cotyledons flat—Herbs or shrubs. Stem-leaves alternate. 
Spikes scorpioid, bracteate. Flowers usually blue or white. 
Species 30-40, spread through Europe, North Africa, Western Asia, and several 
shrubby types in the Canaries and Azores. 
Bristles spreading. 
Corolla half as long again as the calyx . : . 1. #. Rauwolfii. 
Corolla twice as long as the calyx : . 2. EB. longiflorum. 
Bristles ascending . : : : : : . 38. EF. arenarium. 
1. E. Rauwolfii, Delile, Fl. Egypte, 195, t. 19, fig. 3. Annual, 
with a slender root, which stains purple. Stem erect, much branched, 
with copious spreading bristles. Stem-leaves sessile, linear-oblong, 
small, with copious white bulbous-based bristles ; radical leaves oblanceo- 
late, obtuse, 4—6 in. long, narrowed gradually into a short petiole. 
Spikes finally 6 in. or more long; bracts lanceolate, hispid. Calyx 
very hispid, 4-6 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla pallid, half as 
long again as the calyx. Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla- 
lobes. Nuts smooth, shining, 1} lin. long.—DC. Prodr. x. 25. 
Wile Band. Soudan: between Berber and Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 541 ! 
Getena, Schweinfurth, 911! region of Khartoum, Speke & Grant! Kotschy, 264! 
318! Broun, 36! Petherick! Bromfield! Blue Nile, Muriel, 44! near Wolet 
Medine (Wold Medineh), Kotschy, 464! 
Also in North Africa and Western Asia. 
