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P L A T E XX.
ECHIUM GRANDIFLORUM.
Large-flowered Viper s Buglofs.
C L A S S V. ORDER L
PENTANDRI^ MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
CALYX. Penanthium quinquepartltum, ereftum
perliftens; laciniis fubulatis eredUs.
COROLLA. Monopetala, campanulata. Tubus
breviilìmus. Lirabus ereftus, fenfim ampliatus,
quinquefidus obtufus; laciniis faspius
inasqualibus; fuperioribus duabus longioiibus,
infimis minoribus, acutis, reflcxis.
Faux pervia.
STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, longitudine
corollae, declinata., inaequalia. Antherse
oblongse, incumbentes.
PisTiLLQM. Germina quatuor. Stylus filiformis,
longitudine ftaminum. Stigma obtufum,
bifidum.
P E R I C A R P I UM nullum. Calyx rigidior, in finu
femina fovens.
SEMINA quatuor,fubrotunda, oblique acumenata.
S P E C I F I C
Echium, foliis nitidis, lanceolatis, hifpidis;
calile fruticofo; corollis maximis, aequalibus,
rubris.
EMPALEMENT. Cup with five divifions, upright,
pennanent; fegments awl-iliaped, upright.
BLOSSOM. One petal, bell-iliaped. Tube very
fliort. Border gradually widening, with five
clefts, blunt. Segments ofteneft unequal,
the two upper ones the longeft; the lower
ones finaller, lliarp, and reflexed. The
mouth open.
CHIVES. Five threads, awl-iliaped, the length of
the bloffom, declined, and unequal. Tips
oblong, fixed fideways to the threads.
P O I N T A L . Seed-buds four. Shaft thread-fliaped,
the length of the chives. Summit blunt,
and two-cleft.
SEED-VESSEL none. The cup growing more
harlh, contains the feeds.
SEEDS four, roundiih, obliquely tapering.
C H A R A C T E R .
Viper's Buglofs, with fliining, lance-fhaped,
hairy leaves; flem fhrubby; bloflbms very
large, equal, and red.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Bloffom cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.
4. A ripe feed.
THE Echium Grandiflorum is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was fent from thence by Mr. F.
Maffon to the Royal Gardens at Kew, about the year 17gl. The fuperior beauty of this fpecies to
the reft of its congenors makes it confidered as a valuable greenhoufe plant, although its intrinfic
merit is fufBcient to enfure it that charader; the rich green of its foliage, contrailed to the colour of
the bloffoms, gives to each a Angular brilliancy. It is rather a tender greenhoufe plant, grows about
two feet high, and becomes naked at the lower part of the ftem; is with difSculty propagated by
cuttings, feldom perfeaing its feeds; thrives beft in rich earth, and flowers in April and May. The
drawing was made from a plant in the colleftion of the Marquis of Blandford, Bill-hill, Berks.