SUPPLEMENT. 
5AL 
Echinocactus—continued. 
of spines at regular intervals, the outer and shorter ones being 
white and spreading, while from the middle of each tuft arise 
three 2in. long and one 3in. long, with the point hooked, and as 
strong as steel. See Fig. 25. 
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Fic. 25. PorTION OF RIDGE, WITH SPINES AND FLOWER, OF 
ECHINOCACTUS WISLIZEN1. 
ECHINOPSIS. To the species described on pp. 
502-3, Vol. I., the following variety should now be 
added : 
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). Syn. Pallasia (of L’ Hévitier). 
Orv. Composite. 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 ; 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. LE. 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. 
E. canescens (hoary). //l.-heads orange; involucral scales villous, 
ciliated. July. J. broadly ovate, entire, obtuse, softly canescent. 
h. 1ft. Peru, 1786. (B. R. 909.) 
ENCHOLIRION (from engchos, a spear, and Leirion, a 
Lily; in allusion to the habit of the genus). Syn. Priono- 
phyllum. Orv. Bromeliacee. 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 
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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. corallinum (coral-flowered). 1. 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, lift. long, 2in. broad, glaucous-violet below, and with a 
ereenish-blue tint above transversely marked with dark, wavy 
lines. (I. H. xviii. 70.) 
E. c. splendens (splendid). 7. more compact, more obtuse, and 
broader than in the type. 1885. 
(rosy-variegated), J. striped with 
An ornamental plant, of garden origin. 
E. roseum variegatum 
yellowish bands, 
1884. 
Fic. 26. ECHINOPSIS EYRIESII FLORE-PLENO. 
ENGELMANNIA (named in honour of George En- 
gelmann, 1810-1884, a German botanist, who wrote on 
