PLATE XX. 



ECHIUM GRANDIFLORUM. 



Large-flowered Viper's Buglofs. 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium quinquepartitum, erectum 

 perfiftens; laciniis fubulatis ereftis. 



Corollai Monopetala, campanulata. Tabus 

 breviffimus. Limbus ereftus, fenfim ampli- 

 atus, quinquefidus obtufus; laciniis fspius 

 inrequalibus; fuperioribus duabus longiori- 

 bus, infimis minoribus, acutis, reflexis. 

 Faux pervia. 



Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, longi- 

 tudine corollas, declinata. inasqualia. An- 

 therse oblongae, incumbentes. 



Pistillum. Germina quatuor. Stylus filiformis, 

 longitudine ftaminum. Stigma obtufum, 

 bifidum. 



Pekicarpium nullum. Calyx rigidior, in finu 

 femina fovens. 



Semina quatuor, fubrotunda, oblique acumenata. 



SPECIFIC 



Echium, foliis nitidis, lanceolatis, hifpidis; 

 caule fruticofo; corollis maximis, requali- 

 bus, rubris. 



Empalement. Cup with rive divifions, upright, 

 permanent ; fegments awl-fliaped, upright. 



Blossom. 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, fliarp, and reflexcd. The 

 mouth open. 



Chives. Five threads, awl-fhapcd, the length of 

 the blofibm, declined, and unequal. Tips 

 oblong, fixed fide ways to the threads. 



Pointal. Seed-buds four. Shaft thread-fhaped, 

 the length of the chives. Summit blunt, 

 and two-cleft. 



Seed-vessel none. The cup growing more 

 harfh, contains the feeds. 



Seeds four, roundifh, obliquely tapering. 



CHARACTER. 



Viper's Bugloft, with fhining, lance-fhaped, 

 hairy leaves; ftem fhrubby; bloffbms very 

 large, equal, and red. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Blofibm cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. 



3. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. 



4. A ripe teed. 



The Echium Grandiflorum is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was fent from thence by Mr. F. 

 MaffoD to the Royal Gardens at Kew, about the year IJQI. The fuperior beauty of this fpecies to 

 the reft of its congenors makes it confidered as a valuable greenhoufe plant, although its intrinfic 

 merit is fufficient to enfure it that character; the rich green of its foliage, contrafted to the colour of 

 the bloffbms, gives to each a lingular brilliancy. It is rather a tender greenhoufe plant, grows about 

 two feet high, and becomes naked at the lower part of the ftem; is with difficulty propagated by 

 cuttings, feldom perfeding its feeds; thrives beft in rich earth, and flowers in April and May. The 

 drawing was made from a plant in the collection of the Marquis of Blandford, Bill-hill, Berks. 



