OF a 
_ Large-flowered Viper’s Buglo/s. 
CLASS. ¥. 
ORDER I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
-Catyx. Perianthi 1 . quer tit , erectum 
‘ perfiftens; laciniis fubulatis ereétis. 
Cororra. Monopetala, campanulata. Tubus 
iffimus. Limbus ereétus, fenfim ampli- 
-atus, quinquefidus obtufus; laciniis feepius 
inequalibus; fuperioribus duabus longiori- 
bus, infimis minoribus, acutis, refléxis. 
Faux pervia. 
Sramina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, longi- 
__ tudine corolle, declinata, inzequalia 
therze oblonge, incumbentes. 
Pistittum. Germina quatuor. Stylus filiformis, 
longitudine i Stigma obtufum, 
bifidum 
Pericarrium “nullum. Calyx rigidior, in finu 
femina fovens. : 
A {nhrotunda ohli 
a 
- §PECIFIC 
“Echium, foliis nitidis, lanceolatis, hifpidis; 
caule fruticofo; corollis maximis, zequali- 
bus, rubris. 
EmpaLemMenT. Cup with five divifions, upright, 
permanent; fegments awl-fhaped, upright. 
Biossom. One petal, bell-fhaped. Tube very 
fhort. Border gradually widening, with five 
clefts, blunt. Segments ofteneft unequal, 
the two upper ones the longeft; the lower 
ones fmaller, fharp, and reflexed. The 
mouth open. 
Cuives. Five threads, awl-fhaped, the length of 
the bloffom, declined, and unequal. Tips 
oblong, fixed fideways to the threads. 
Porntat. Seed-buds four. Shaft thread-thaped, 
the length of the chives. Summit blunt, 
and two-cleft. - 
SrEep-vessEL none. The cup growing more 
harfh, contains the feeds. 
Szeps four, roundifh, obliquely tapering. 
CHARACTER. 
Viper’s Buglofs, with fhining, lance-fhaped, 
hairy leayes; ftem fhrubby; bloffoms very 
large, equal, and red. 
RR 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Bloffom cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. 
3. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. 
4. A ripe feed. 
Tue Echium Grandiflorum is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was fent from thence by Mr. F. ~ 
__ Maffon to the Royal Gardens at Kew, about the year 1791. The fuperior beauty of this {pecies to 
the reft of its congenors makes it confidered as a valuable greenhoufe plant, although its intrinfic 
_ merit is fufficient to enfure it that charaéter;- the rich green of its foliage, contrafted to the colour of 
the bloffoms, gives to each a fingular brillian i se 
Aocmas : cy. It is rather a tender greenhoufe plant, grows 4 
two feet high, and becomes naked at the lower part of the ftem; is with difficulty propagated by 
* 
=e feldom perfeéting its feeds; thrives beft in rich earth, and flowers in April and May. 
drawing was made from a plant in the collection of the Marguis of Blandford, Bill-hill, Berks. 
