PLATE CLXV. 



EClirUM GLAUCOPHYLLUM. 



Sea-green-leaved Viper s-Buglofs. 



CLASS V. ORDER L 

 PENTAISDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla irregularis, fauce nuda. 11 Blossom irregular, mouth naked. 



I See EcHiuM GEANoiiLoauM, PI. XX. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Echiuin caule fruticofo; ramis calycibulque gla- 

 bris; ibliis ovato-lanceolatis, glaucis, g!a- 

 bris, margine lerrulatis; corollis fubasqua- 

 Jibns. 



Viper's-Buglofs with a (lirubby ftem; branches 

 very fmooth; leaves between egg and Jance- 

 fhaped, of a fea-green colour, fmooih, and 

 {lightly fawed at tlie margin ; blofloms 

 nearly equal. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Blolibm cut open, to fliew the infertion of the chives. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. 



This (hrubby fpecies of Echium was introduced, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, by Mr. F. Maflbn, in 

 the year 1792, from the Cape of Good Hope. It grows to the height of three feet, or more, rather 

 builiy at the top, flowers about the mouth of May, and perfeds its feeds with us; by which only 

 method, it is to be prop.igatcd. It thrives beft in a light loamy foil, with a fmall proportion of f:mdy 

 peat, about one fourth. 



Profeffor Martyn, in his Miller's Die. has collated two defcriptions of Echiums under the titles of 

 laevigatum, and glabrum; the firft. No. 9, from Lin. Sp, Plant. 199; the fecond. No IQ, from Vahl. 

 Symb. 3. 22. Thunberg has likewife, in his Prodromus, 33. two names of plants, as E. laevigatum, 

 and E. glabrum; from whom Willdenow, in his new Edition of Sp. Plant, p. 785, has copied them 

 under the same titles; adding, the various fynonims, from Linna-us's Sp. Plant, to the one; and to 

 the latter. Prof. Jacqnin's fpecific of glaucophyllum, taken from his Ic. rar. 2. t. 312, and his Colled. 

 2. p. 325. Now, we have little hefitation in declaring our opinion, and we think, thofe who choofe 

 to compare our figure with the dift'erent defcriptions here mentioned, will coincide with us, that this 

 is the plant from which they niuft all have originated, except the E. glabrum of Vahl, which we take 

 to be a ditferent plant; as, the cup is defcribed hairy, the length ot the tube of the blolTom ; the chives 

 longer, and the flower fmaller. Wherefore, we have taken, for our plant, the fpecific title of Jacquin, 

 as being, in our idea, the moft appropriate. 



