belongs. £. Perezii, the plant now described, is confined 
_ to the Island of Palma, one of the western members of 
the Canary Group, where it was first met with a few 
years ago near Punta Llana. Its ally L. Wildpreti: on 
the other hand is a native of Tenerife. There is a 
difference possibly of minor importance in the colour of 
their corollas, that of E. Waildpretii being pale red, 
whereas that of our plant is pale pink. The most 
striking difference is in their general habit. This will be 
best appreciated by an examination of photographs of 
the two published in the Kew Bulletin for 1914 at 
pp. 266, 267. The treatment most suitable for both is 
pot-cultivation in a light loamy compost in a sunny- 
greenhouse. The plants of £. Perezii when they came 
into flower were in eight-inch pots. 
DuscrieTion.— //erb, tall and erect. Stem in the plant 
figured about 2 ft. high, in those grown in the Canaries 
over 6 ft. in height, simple, losing its leaves at the base, 
elsewhere densely leafy. Leaves above the base deflexed, 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, about 5 in. long, 1—} in. wide, 
caudate-acuminate, gradually narrowed to the base, 
rather coarsely silky; lateral nerves about 4 on each 
side, somewhat oblique, hardly visible or slightly sunk 
above, raised beneath; upper leaves similar but ascend- 
ing. Thyrse terminal, ovoid, many-flowered, about 10 in. 
long and 5 in. across; cymes scorpioid, very markedly 
pedunculate, about 3 in. long, including the 3-11 in, long 
peduncles; Jower and intermediate cymes 2-furcate, 
about 25-flowered, upper cymes simple; peduncles and 
rachis pilose with spreading hairs; bracts linear-lanceo- 
late, }-1 in. long. Calyx lobed nearly to the middle; 
segments erect, lanceolate, acute, about + in. long, y5-$ 
in. wide, hirsute outside. Corella subrotate, regular, |. in. 
long, pale pink or rose; lobes spreading or with their 
tips slightly deflexed, wide ovate with deflexed edges. 
Stamens inserted on raised folds of the corolla-tube, far 
exserted, uniformly divergent. Style about 3 in. long, 
glabrous at the base and near the top, elsewhere pilose ; 
style-arms about ,', in. long. Nu¢lets tubercled. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, cal ; isti 
‘Fig. 1, 3 4, Calyx and style; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, pistil; 6, sketch of 
an entire plant :—all enlarged except 6, which is much redaand. ne 
