Now that communications with Mexico are so frequent, we 

 ought to expect many more species of this genus, all of which 

 are worth the cultivator's care. E. coccinea, with a leafy 

 spike of scarlet flowers, yellow inside ; JE. teretifolia, whose 

 flowers are of the same colour, but whose leaves are tapering, 

 still remain to be introduced ; and even the old £. ccespitosa, 

 with the habit of the species now figured, but with yellow 

 stalkless flowers, is seldom or never seen, although cultivated 

 years ago. In addition to these there are several species 

 not yet described, to which, from the general beauty of the 

 genus, some importance is to be attached. 



