Tab. 7847. 

 ECHICTM WiLDniBTiL 



Native of the Canary Islcinds. 



Nat. Ord. Boragine.e. — Tribe Bor\gbjB. 

 Genus lElomuM., Linn. ; {Benth.Sc EooTc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 803.) 



EcHiuM Wildpretii ; bienne, molHter pilosa, caale 2T3-pedali simplice stricto 

 erecto a basi paullo incrassato crebre folioeo, foliis 6-8-pollicaribu8 

 patentibus segsilibus lineari-lanceolatis acumina^is utriiique pilis mollibas 

 Bubsericeis vestitia costa latiuscala nervis obacuris, cymis multifloris in 

 thyrsiim terminalem elongatum foliosnm dispositis, foliia floralibus 

 lineai'ibus patenti-incurvia cymas pedanculatas longe snperantibus, 

 floribus breviter pedicellat^, calycis | poll, longi segtpentis aequalibus 

 lanceolatis acumiuatis pilosis, i5o<;olla infuudibulari-campannlata pallida 

 rubra tiibo calyce paullo longiore basi iatiw annulo pilorutn instructo, 

 lobis EequalibuB late ovatis obtusis, iilaBflcntis erectis corolla duplo 

 longioribus pallide sanguineis, antheris parvis oblongig, stylo piloao 

 apioe bipartite. 



E, Wildpretii, Pearson in Hort. Sew. (nomen). 



The species of EcJiium, of which more than eighty are 

 catalogued in the Kew "Index Plantarum," are very difficult 

 of discrimination. This applies especially to the species of 

 Madeira and the Canary Islands, of which twenty have 

 been described, but of which not a few will probably be 

 reduced to synonyms or varieties when they shall be 

 collated and critically examined. Of the plant here figured 

 seeds were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. 

 Wildpret, Curator of the Botanic Gardens of Orotava, 

 Teneriffe, under the name of E. cnndicans, Linn, f., a very 

 different plant, as may be seen by a reference to tab. 6868 

 of tbis work. The seeds germinated freely, and tlio young 

 plants ripened their seeds in 1897. From these a bfitch of 

 plants was raised, which flowered in May, 1899, and dying 

 after flowering, proved the species to be biennial. In the 

 first year the plant formed a dense rosette of long, narrow, 

 silvery, silken leaves, and the stem elongates after about 

 sixteen months. The only other species known to nie 

 with the habit, thyrsoid inflorescence, and floral leaves 

 much exceeding the cymes, is E. callithyrsum, Webb (ex 

 Bolle in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1867, App. i. p. 6), a 

 Canary Island plant, of which there are specimens (if 

 August 1st, 1902, 



