378 MR. C. C. LACAITA : A REVISION OF 
mihi obscura, Æ. lusitanico, L., similis sed corollis dimidio majoribus violaceis- 
que non carneis certe diversa. Forte Æ. plantagineum parviflorum." This 
suggestion is of course impossible, and the rest of Braun's letter is devoted 
to distinguishing his salmanticum from plantagineum, with a rough sketch to 
show the dissimilar method of growth. The seeds germinated and on 25th 
June, 1843, Gay gathered in the Jardin de l'école de médecine de Paris one 
of the two specimens now in his herbarium, which at first he took to be 
& FE. lusitanicum, L., et Lehm. E. italicum, Brot.,” annotating it“ E. caulibus 
ex una radice pluribus, rosule centrali subjectis." But in a further note of 
July 2nd he modified the synonymy as follows: “Echium Broterianum, Gay 
=F. italicum, Brot, sed Echium amplissimo folio lusitanicum, "Tourn. = 
E. lusitanicum, Poir., est planta longe alia. Longe alia videtur Æ. caule 
simplici foliis caulinis lanceolatis, ete., Royen, E. lusitanicum, Linn. et Lehm., 
cujus laciniæ calycinæ ex Lehmanno lanceolate sunt et acuminatæ, non vero 
(que Broterianæ) obtusiusculæ oblongæ vel ellipticæ.” He seems to have 
thought there were three species where only two exist and erred in referring 
Brotero's italicum to the plant from the Carlsruhe seeds instead of to the 
other kind, Æ. lusitanicum. 
On the same day, July 2nd, he gathered the other specimen now in his 
herbarium from the same seeds, and described it ex vivo as follows (it is the 
only deseription of this species from the living plant) :— 
* Echium salmanticum, Lag. En pleine terre, ou il forme une énorme 
touffe de 2-3 pieds de haut. Ab ÆEchio lusitanico herb. Jussi:ani diversis- 
simum. (1) Inflorescentia quasi racemosa non paniculata (spicis partialibus 
scilicet brevissimis non elongatis); (2) calyce quam corolla plus dimidio 
breviore, non corollam subsequante, phyllis ellipticis vel oblongis, non 
lanceolatis aeutatis, margine et ad carinam ciliatis, ceeterum glabris, 
non sparsim et longius setosis; (8) corolla ampliore multo imprimis latius 
aperta (limbo campanulato non cylindraceo-conico). Pili eaulini uniformes, 
longi, patentissimi, firmuli, hasi non bulbosi neque pube ulla breviore inter- 
mixta. Corolla violaceo-ceerulea, adhue clausa vinoso-rosea, 34 lin. longa, 
ore maxime hiante 3 lin. lato, lobis limbi duobus superioribus paulo longiori- 
bus. Filamenta longe exserta, corollam plus duplo longa (sic). Caules ex 
una radice plurimi, spurii (revera rami radicales), rosulee centrali (caule 
haud evoluto) subjecti!” Then on a much later ticket he added 
* FE, polycaulon, Boiss. ? " 
The above account should be compared with Coutinho’s description of 
polycaulon (salmantieum) in Bol. Soc. Brot. xxi. p. 111, and will be found 
to agree in essentials, There is a photograph of a herbarium specimen of 
E. polycaulon in Rouy’s Ilustr. Pl. Eur. Rar. tab. xli. It is strange that no 
one as yet should have taken the trouble to rediscover /. salmanticum in such 
an accessible locality as the neighbourhood of Salamanca. Both this plant 
and Æ. lusitanicum seem to have been lost from the gardens where they once 
were grown, 
