124. 
ECHIUM grandiflorum. 
Long-flowered Viper's Bugloss. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIH, ‘aie 
Nat. Ord. Borracinem. Jussiew gen. 128. Div. TTI. 
Boracinem®. Cal, 5-divisus,: (rard_ 4-divisus,) per- 
sistens. Cor. hypogyna, 1-petala, swpissié regularis, 5-fida, nunc 
4-fida; zstivatione imbricaté. Stam. epipetala, numero laciniarum et 
cum iis alternantia, rard plura. Germ. 4-partitum, 4-spermum, v. sim- 
plex 2-4-loc., ovulis definitis pendulis. Nucule 4, distincla v. infra 
connate; nunc Drupa 4-loc. v. Bacca 2-4-pyrena. Sem. exalbuminosa, 
mod) albumine lamelliformi, carnoso. Embryo inversus. Herbe v. 
frutices. . Folia alterna, exstipulata, sepe aspera. Flores in spicis 
sepe secundi, nunc paniculati, v.-corymbosi, quanddque axillares ‘soli- 
tarii. Brown prod. 492. 
ECHIUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 36. wae 
E. grandiflorum, caule glabro, foliis lanceolatis supra ‘scabris, floribus 
‘cymosis’ zqualibus, corollarum tubo longissimo. Venten. malmais. 
97. : 
Echium grandiflorum. Andrews’s reposit. 20. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 
299. 
Echium formosum. Persoon syn. 1. 163. 
E. regulariflorum. Recens. pl. in reposit. botan. depict. 11. n. 42. 
Caulis fi uticosus, tripedalis magisve, digitum crassus, erectus, cicatrizatus, 
glaber, superné foliosus et herbaceo-virescens. Folia undique sparsa, proxima, 
recurvo-patentia, semiamplexicaulia, elongato-lanceolata, long? attenuata, supra 
convexa, callis setigeris hispida, subtus glabra, serrato- et strigoso-ciliata, 
longitudine subtriuncialia, latitudine vix semuncialia. Flores superni, Jolioso- 
niculati, recurvo-nutantes, spicule plures, terminales et aalarbe pedun- 
culate, divaricato-dichotome . conjugate, foliaceo-bracteate, alterne ‘se- 
cunde, rachidibus binatis flecuosis asperis, altera exteriore in singuld spiculé 
breviore 1- v. pauciflora, folio breviore ovato-acuminato ad basin utriusque : 
pedicelli recti, teretes, calyct subduplo breviores, hispidi ; hic et illic abortiunt 
spicule in florem solitartum axillarem. — Cal. herbaceus, persistens, corollé 
uplo brevior, profundeé partitus, segmentis lanceolatis, erecto-conniventibus, 
carina et margine hispidis, superiore longiore. Cor. firma, carneo-rubens, 
infundibuliformi-cylindrica, sesqui-biuncialis, rectissima, regularis et equalis, 
extiis lanuginosa ; tubus striato-pentagonus, inferné plicato-attenuatus, supernd 
explicato-ampliatus, limbo pluriés longior, ints infra medium at supra germen 
hirsutus ; limbus patentissimus laciniis rotundatis, transvers® latioribus et 
ruguloso-undulatis. Stam. usque ad basin limbi producta, inequalia, diver- 
gentia, subassurgentia, pro tertid sua parte adnata corolle. Stylus persistens 
post dilapsam corollam : stigma emarginatum. 
SS 
A handsome-flowered shrubby species, introduced by 
the late Mr, Masson, from the Cape of Good Hope, in 
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