CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 549 



with blotches of creamy-white ; interesting also for the pretty 

 pink flowers it bears. 



Cyrtanthera. 



1. C. Pohliana. A small plant with pointed oval leaves three 

 inches long, bears in the Cold season crowded heads of rose- 

 coloured, long, tubular flowers, ending in long gaping lobes 

 with long-projecting stamens ; rather pretty. 



2. C. aurantiaca. Flowers Aphelandra-like, large, handsome. 



Adhatoda. 



A. cydonisefolia. A most beautiful shrub in Mr. Grote's col- 

 lection, native of Brazil ; bears in the axils of the leaves large 

 flowers, with the upper lip white, spotted with purple at the 

 top ; the lower deep-purple with a yellow ray down the middle. 



Beloperone. 



1. B. oblongata. A handsome small plant, nearly always in 

 blossom with large purplish-crimson flowers. 



2. B. nervosa. Of larger habit than the last, with larger 

 leaves ; flowers pink. 



3. B. verrucosa A small plant, with pink flowers not unlike 

 those of a Dead-nettle. 



Eranthemum. 



1. E. bicolor. A small plant, very beautiful when in full 

 blossom, as it nearly always is, except in the Cold season, with 

 its rather small, pure-white, sparkling flowers, with a dark- 

 puce spot on the under lip. 



2. E. crenulatum. - A small shrub, bears in the Cold season 

 pure-white flowers, prettily pencilled with puce-coloured mark- 

 ings. 



3. E. erectum. A plant about three feet high, with small 

 narrow leaves ; bears, in the Cold season, flowers of a most 

 beautiful blue with dark eye. 



4. E. nervosum ; syn. Daedalacanthus. A large bush, with large 

 blackish-green leaves; of extraordinary beauty when in full 



