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* Echinopsis—continued. aa 
ess which distinguishes the original species. Native 
н» unknown. (B. 1831, under name of Echinocactus 
Eyriesii glaucus. 
E. formosa (beautiful. Stem sub-globular or elongated, pale 
green. Ribs obtuse, vertical, rounded, about sixteen in num тег; 
areole distant, oval, greyish, rather woolly ; spines needle-like, 
rigid ; two to four interior ones long, brown; eight to sixteen 
exterior fawn-coloured or whitish. л. lft. Mendoza. 
multiplex (multiplied).* jf. біп. to 8in. long, and almost as 
much across when fully expanded ; tube long, clavate, thickly 
clothed at the base with short tufts of dense white hairs, while 
ihe rest of the tube is beset with longer and dark-coloured 
ones; petals numerous ; outer ones narrow-lanceolate, gradually 
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Fig. 699. 
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ECHINOPSIS PENTLANDI SCHEERIL 
Echinopsis—continued. 
becoming shorter and broader, so that the innermost ones are 
almost ovate and acuminate, all of a delicate rose-colour, d. 
towards the apex; anthers yellow, rounded. Plant marked with 
about thirteen deep furrows and as many ridges, which are 
prominent, acute, somewhat sinuated at the keel, and there beset 
with thickly downy oval areolæ ; spines ten to twelve, the central 
one longer and stronger than the rest, especially in the upper 
areole, where they are represented of a uniform deep tawny 
colour, while those on the sides are more ге, r in size, and 
variegated with dark brown and white, A. óin. South Brazil 
(according to Pfeiffer) A very desirable plant, on account of the 
delicacy and richness of colour of the petals. SYN. Cereus multi- 
plex. (B. M. 3789.) 
E. oxygonus (sharp-angled) fl. proceeding from the furrows 
about the foot of the stem, nearly lft. long, reversed cone-shaped ; 
tube somewhat curved, externally covered with bracts; the lower 
are small red, increasing in size, and at last terminating in the 
etals, which are broad, lance-shaped, and of a rose-colour. 
Plant nearly of a globular form, of a bluish-green colour. Ribs 
fourteen, rising from a broad base, running into an acute 
edge ; the furrows are somewhat sharp spines, about fourteen, of 
various sizes, the outer generally lar the inner smaller, all of 
a brown colour, cone-like, not flat, the younger surrounded by a 
tomentum which is more or less wanting in the older. Brazil 
(B. R. 1711, under name of Echinocactus oxygonus.) 
E. Pentlandi (Pentland's) fi. bright rose-carmine. Summer. 
Plant globular or sub-globular, with twelve or thirteen (rarely 
with a larger number) acute, spiral, notched ribs, rather 
glaucous-green ; areolze more or less crowded, woolly, furnished 
with generally nearly equal spines. Peru, 1843. 
E. P. longispinus (long.spined) jl. crimson. Stem sub- 
globular; spines very long, dark brown. See Fig. 698. 
. Scheerii (Scheers) 7., pe ow below, t ri ; 
са Stem ed кє сө on See See Fig. basen eum 
ECHINOSPERMUM (from echinos, 
and sperma, а seed; referring ; 
Lappula and Rochelia. ORD. Boraginem. A genus con- 
taining about fifty species of annual, biennial, or peren- 
nial, hispid or pubescent herbs, very few of which are 
in cultivation. Flowers blue or whitish, usually small, 
racemose or spicate. Leaves alternate, often narrow. se 
The species are most abundant in the à; 
of the Northern hemisphere. 
ү narrowed at base into long _ 
wing-margined petioles ; the upper sessile, from oblong. 
lanceolate to ovate or cordate, passinginto small bracts. - 
h. lft. California. Perennial. SYN. E. nervosum. _ 
It has bee; 
localities in Еп; 
E. tum ge- flowered, 
margined)* ji. pale blue, My like; racemes © 
many-flowered. £ Талбай, k - Stems erect 
Russia. Biennial. (R. G. 1119.) 
Е. nervosum (nerved) A synonym of E. difusum 
E. virginicum (Virginian). Jt, corolla 
passing the calyx, e blue or whit 
armed all over with short prickles. 
round, ovate or cordate, 
ont - ng-lanceo ate acuminate at 
both de: pec Be — v 
Stem 2ft. to ft. hi п 
spreading branches. 
SYN. Myosotis virginica. - 
. BCHINOSTACHYS. A synonym of Pyenc- 
stachys (which see. .—  . 
ECHIOGLOSSUM STRIATUM. Se 
Cleisostoma Меш. i E 
CHITES (from echis, a viper; ref g 
Косе either - its deleterious quality or 
its twining habit) Orp. Apocynacee. A genus 
of about thirty-five species of handsome stove 
evergreen twining shrubs, all natives of tropical 
America. Flowers sub-corymbose; corolla sal. 
ver-shaped, having a naked throat and tube, 
with unequal segments; peduncles interpetiolar, - 
many-flowered. Leaves opposite; interpetiolar . 
cilia glandular. For culture, see Dipladenia. _ 
E. atr (dark-purple)* jl. dark chocolate- . 
colour. Brazil 1814. (В. Б. 1845, 27.) __ е 
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ly. 
a hedgehog, ^ 
to the prickly bur) SYNS. 
