4d, 
ECHIUM candicans. 
FToary Tree-Viper’s Bugloss. 
PENTANDRIA J£0NO GYNIA. 
ECHIUM. Supra fol. 36. — 
FE. candicans, caule fruticoso, foliis lanceolatis nervosis ramisque hirsutis, 
foliolis calycinis oblongis lanceolatisque acutis, stylis hirtis, Hort. Kew. 
1. 186. : ; “sts 
Echium candicans. Lin. suppl. 131. Syst. veg. ed. 14. 189. Jacq. 
coll. 1. 44, ic. rar. 1.30. Willd. sp. pl. 1.782. Hort. Kew. ed. 2./ 
1. 299. } 
Planta arborescens, erecta, ramosa, modd orgyalis, cortice cinerco, vi- 
moso; rami supra transversim cicatrizatt, novelli crassi, succulenti, stricti, 
hirsutiis villosi, approximaté nec verd confertim foliosi. Folia numerosa, 
spithamea, sparsa, patentissima, modo passim subverticillata v. rariis passim 
‘per paria opposita, villoso-canescentia, in nervis precipuis scabrida, angustiis 
lanceolata, in acumine longinqué attenuata, supra immerse nervosa nervis 
ascendentér Br olere ats, subtiis varicosis ; in petiolum semiteretem basi dila- 
tatum attenuata. Panicula cylindrica spicata rami terminatrix; spicule 
mult, modo rare & remotiores, modo in cylindrum pyramidatum imbricato- 
congeste, pedunculate, ‘sparse, axillares in foliis supernis diminutis, ex 
partim retroflexis sensim arrigende, biseriato-secunda, bracteis parvis fo- 
liaceis persistentibus lanceolatis singularibus extern® ad utrumque latus stipate. 
Cal. herbaceus, hirsutus, equalis, segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, obtusulis. 
Cor. @ minoribus generis, diluté roseo-cerulescens, e@qualis, subbilabiata, ob- 
tusa, extiis pubescens. Stamina longé exserta, assurgentia, sepiiis rubentia. 
The white hue so conspicuous in this plant, and which 
has suggested the specific name, is communicated by a 
short thick villous pubescence that covers nearly every 
part of it. The stem is of a close-grained hard wood, and 
sometimes nearly two inches in diameter near the base. 
The bloom is produced in April and May, and continues 
long in beauty, the |flowers expanding themselves in suc- 
cession as the numerous spikelets, which are rolled inwards 
and point towards the axis of the common panicle, proceed 
in evolving themselves to complete extension. 
Monsieur Ventenat has expressed a doubt whether the 
figure we have quoted from Jacquin’s works, really belongs — 
to this species; but seems to have overlooked the reasons 
assigned in the “ Icones rariores” for the peculiar appear-- 
ance of the specimen from which that figure was taken, 
the stock of which is said to have assumed the one more 
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