Supplement. 



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Eclll no cactus — continued, 



oi Bpines at regular intervals, the outer and shorter ones being 

 wliite and spreading, while from the middle of each tuft arise 

 three 2in. long and one Sin. long, with the point hooked, and as 

 strong aa steel. See Fig. 25. 



Fig. 



25. Portion of Ridge, with Spines and Flower, of 



echinocactus wislizeni. 



ECHINOFSIS. 



502-3, Vol, I., the 

 added : 



To the species described on pp. 

 following variety should now be 



E. Eyriesii flore-pleno (double-flowered). A form with several 

 rows of petals, which impart a double appearance to the flowers. 

 See Fig. 26 



ENCELIA (from egchelion^ a little eel ; in allusion to 

 the appearance of the seeds). Stn. Pallasia (of L'Heritier), 

 Ord. CotnpositcB* A genus embracing about a score 

 species of branched, villous, pubescent, or tomentose 

 herbs, sometimes shrubby at the base, natives of ^Mexico or 

 Western America, from Chili to California. Flower-heads 

 yellow, violet, or purplish, radiate, mediocre or rather 

 large, long-pedunculate at the tips of the branches, rarely 

 smaller and irregularly panicled j involucral bracts in two 

 or three series ; ray florets spreading, entire or shortly 

 toothed. Leaves opposite, or the upper ones rarely nearly 

 all alternate, entire, toothed, or lobed. E. canescens, the 

 only species calling for mention here, is a pretty, dwarf, 

 greenhouse sub-shrub, thriving in loamy soil. Cuttings, 

 inserted under a glass, will strike readily, if not over- 

 watered. 



£. canescens (hoary). Jt.-heads orange ; involucral scales villous, 

 ciliated. July. I. broadly ovate, entire, obtuse, softly canescent. 

 A. lift. Peru, 1786. (E. B. 909.) 



ENCHOIiimON (from engclios^ a spear, and Leirion, a 

 Ijily; in allusion to the habit of the genus). Syn. PHono- 

 phyllum. Ord. Bromeliaceoe. A genus embracing about 

 half-a-dozen species of stove, perennial herbs, natives of 

 Brazil. Flowers in a terminal, simple or slightly branched, 

 long, dense raceme ; sepals free, short, ovate, imbricated ; 

 petals much longer, free, narrow, erect or somewhat 



I 



Encholirion — continued, 



spreading from the base; stamens free, the filaments 

 filiform. Leaves rosulate, long, narrow, rigid, generally 

 spinulose-serrated. For culture of the plants introduced, 

 see Tillandsia, on p. 41. 



E. oorallinnm (coral-flowered). Jl. numerous, on an erect scape 

 longer than the leaves; sepals yellowish or greenish, thick, 

 shining, exuding a diaphanous, gummy substance ; petals pale 

 yellow, longer than the sepals ; bracts purple-violet, foliaceous, 

 half-amplexicaul. /. quite entire, canaliculate, obtuse, mucro- 

 nate, Uft long, 2in. broad, glaucous-violet below, and with a 

 greenish-blue tint above transversely marked with dark wavy 

 lines. (I. H. xviii. 70.) ' 



E. c. splendens (splendid). I. more compact, more obtuse, and 

 broader than in the type. 1885. 



E. roseam variegatnm (rosy-variegated). I. striped with 



yellowish bands. 1884. An ornamental plant, of garden origin. 



Fig. 26. EcHiNOPSis Eyriesii flore-pleno. 



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EBrffBLMAITNlA (named in honour of George En- 

 gelmann, 1810-1884, a Grerman botanist, who wrote on 



