Prats XXXII. 
ECHIUM catycinom, Viv. 
Natural Order BoraGingez. 
Section of genus Echium in which the lower flowers do not spring from 
the axils of the bracts. 
Gun. Caar.—Corolla irregular; throat naked; limb oblique, of 5 
unequal lobes. Stamens unequal. <Achenes 4. 
Spec. Cxar.—Bracts oblong or lanceolate, equal at the base. Calya 
developing at the ripening of the fruit, so as to become leavy. Stamens 
included. Leaves hispid, tubercular, oblong or obovate, the lower ones 
narrowed into a petiole, the upper sessile. Stems prostrate or ascend- 
ing, hispid and tubercular. Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 525. 
Echium calycinum, Viv. Ann. Bot. i. pars. 2, p. 164, and FI. It. 
Fragm. i. p. 2, tab. 4; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 525; Woods, Tour. 
Fl. p. 256. 
Hasrrat.—Stony ground on Jurassic limestone, near the shore. 
March. . 
Remarks.—This plant is rather local at Mentone, but may be found 
in abundance above Pont St. Louis, on the western side of the gorge.* 
The specimens figured were gathered there in the end of March, 1865. 
EXPLANATION OF Prats XXXI.—Fig. 1, an entire flower. Fig. 2, 
the stamens and style, with part of the corolla and calyx. Both figures 
magnified, 
* Echium calycinum, Viv., grows near the sea, at intervals, between Marseilles and 
Naples; is found at La Ciotat, on the Ile Sainte-Marguerite opposite Cannes, and in 
Sicily, 
