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ECHIUM fruticosum. 
Shrubby Cape-Viper’s Bugloss. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
ECHIUM. (Fructus gymno-tetraspermus. Faux corolle nuda.) 
Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. tubo brevi, limbo ampliore, campanulato, ob- 
liqué 5-lobo inequali. Stigma @-fidum. Flores spicate aut spicato- 
paniculati, in spiculis secundi. Species quadam suffrutescentes. Jussieu. 
gen. 130. 
E. fruticosum, undique pubescens; floribus in summis ramis laxé sub- 
corymboso-paniculatis; tubo fimbria villosa 5-loba clauso : staminibus 
inclusis, ineequalissimis.. 
Echium fruticosum. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 199. Berg. cap. 39. Thunb. 
prod. $8. Hort. Kew. 1.186. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 782. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2, 1, 298; (excluso Jacquino.) 
E. caule fruticoso, ramis foliisque pilosis. Mull. dict. ed. '7. n. 7. 
E. africanum fruticans foliis pilosis, Comm. hort. 2. 107. t. 54. 
_ Frutex 3-pedalis, ramosus, cortice fusco rami albo-villost, patentes. Folia 
numerosa, non conferta, sparsa, patentissima, coriaceo-crassa, ’ elongato- 
oblonga acumine brevi, deorsiim subattenuata, sessilia, ex punctis elevatis 
piliferis villoso-strigosa, cana, avenia costa media subtus prominuld, 1-2-un- 
cialia, 2-4 lineas lata. Panicule laze ramorum terminales tandém corymboso- 
Jastigiantes, singula ex pci pluribus pedunculatis axillaribus patentibus 
sepe conjugatis, evolventi us sese floribus sensim arrigende. Bractex dimi- 
nuto-foliacee, persistentes. Flores suaveolentes, ferme unciales, anté expli- 
cationem roseo-rubentes, indé cerulescentes. Cal. herbaceus, vir semuncialis, 
subbilabiatus, hirsutus ; segmenta lineari-subulata, 2 summa proximiora, 
imum subminus. Cor. extts pubescens, turbinato-cam anulata, bilabiato- 
obliquata, nervis 5 albis equidistantibus striata ; lacinize breves, subsemiovato- 
rotundate, summe@ 2 proximiores, porrectiores. Stam. 077 villoso tubt anguste 
brevissimi imposita, declinato-assurgentia, divergentia, unum plurimim bre- 
wius. Stylus filamentis duplo gracilior, fusinofiliformis, pro maxima sua parte 
villosus, utrinque breviter atienuatus & glaber: stig. obtusum, levissimé 2- 
Jjidum. 
We do not doubt that the present plant is the Ecnium 
Jruticosum of the Hortus Kewensis; but certainly have some 
doubt whether that of Jacquin, admitted for a synonym 
in the late edition of that work, is of the same species. 
“There the inflorescence terminates each branch in a simple 
continuous scattered axillary upright spike of smaller 
flowers, and the leaves are of a more ovate form and shorter. - 
Spontaneous specimens of each have been evidently grouped 
together, as of one species, in the Banksian Herbarium, 
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