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3. Ecliiocliilon De&f. 
Perennials, with many alternate stem-leaves. 
Flowers small, blue, arranged in leafy scorpioid spikes. Calyx 5- 
partite ; segments lanceolate, 1 very small or obsolete. Corolla-tube 
subcylindrical, curved ; throat not closed by scales ; limb bilabiate, ir- 
regular ; upper lip erect, obscurely 2-lobed ; lower more spreading, 3- 
lobed. Stamens 5, included in the corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; 
anthers oblong. Ovary with 4 lobes attached to the conic gy nobase ; 
style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. 
Nuts 4, ovoid. Seed straight; cotyledons entire. 
Species 2. 
Distribution : — Africa, Arabia, Syria. 
Hispid ......... E. fruticosum. 
Glabrous ......... E. longiflorum. 
1, Ecliiocliilon fruticosum Desf. FI. Atl. X. 67, tab. 47 ; DC. 
Prodr. X, 27. 
Lithospermum divaricatum Sieb. Herb. Palsest. Spreng. Syst. I, 
543. 
Description : — A dwarf much-branched perennial, with stems and 
leaves densely clothed with white bristly hairs. Leaves alternate, 
lanceolate, 3 — 6 inches long, the lower ones reflexed, the upper ad- 
pressed. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, crowded towards the tip of the 
branchlets. Calyx 4-partite ; segments lines long, subulate, sub- 
equal, hirsute. Corolla blue, small, tubular, bilabiate ; tube as long as 
the calyx, subarcuate, villose ; throat yellow. Upper lip longer, bilobed ; 
lower lip subtrilobed ; all the lobes rounded. Stamens 5, included in the 
throat ; filaments very short. Anthers small, acute, versatile, bilocular, 
dehiscent longitudinally. Ovules 4, minute. 
Seeds 4, glabrous, small, tubercular, basilar. 
Locality : — Aden (Birdw.). 
Distribution : — N. Africa, Egypt, Palastine, Syria, Arabia, Nubia. 
2. Ecliiocliilon longiiiorum Benth. in Hook. Ic. Plant. Plate 
1277 ; Giirke in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenf. IV, 3, 130. 
Description : — A herb, divaricate-ramose, 1 foot high, glaucescent or 
pale-caerulescent, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong-linear 
or sublanceolate, entire, thick, sub fleshy, the larger ones 6 — 8 lines long. 
Spikes terminal, 4 — 6 inches long, thin, unilateral. Flowers scarcely 
strictly axillary. Calyx unequally 4 — 5-partite. Corolla blue ; tube 4 — 5 
lines long, 4 — 5 times as long as the calyx, slightly cylindric at the base 
