550 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



bloom in February, with its profusion of deep azure-blue flowers 

 on large prettily-pencilled ears. Var. E. pulchellum, Bears 

 flowers in March, similar, but of a paler blue. 



5. E. strictum. Bears flowers much like those of E. erectum, 

 but with a light eye, and has much larger leaves. 



b*. E. grandifolium. A plant of straggling habit with pale-blue 

 flowers. 



7. E. racemosum. A small under-shrub of great beauty, native 

 of Moluccas, with oblong leaves ; bears in November large pretty 

 flowers, pale pink, or white tinged with red. 



8. E. Blumei. 



9. E. cinnabarinum. From the Tenasserim forests : bears large, 

 conspicuous flowers. 



10. E. igneum. Lately introduced. 



Justicia. 



1. J. Betonica. A small herbaceous plant, remarkable prin- 

 cipally for the beautiful pencilling of the ears on which the 

 flowers are borne. 



2. J. calycotricha, syn. Thyrsacanthus. A small, delicate plant, 

 very pretty when in bloom, in the Cold season, with its close 

 heads of pale-lemon flowers. 



3. J. carnea. A very choice and handsome plant, two or three 

 feet high ; bears, in the Cold season, large, gaping, rose-coloured 

 flowers in great clustered heads. 



4. J. coccinea, syn. Thyrsacanthus. A shrub, three or four feet 

 high, with large, handsome oval leaves, as much as ten inches 

 long, of a dark bright-green, relieving beautifully the brilliant, 

 crimson-scarlet, tubular flowers, two inches long, borne on 

 densely-crowded spikes. In a good soil apt to be troublesome 

 from the numerous suckers it throws up around. 



5. J. Gendarussa. Bears flowers of moderate size, dirty-white, 

 and of little beauty. 



6. J. grandifolia. A handsome-foliaged plant with delicate 

 flowers ; from the Tenasserim forests. 



7. J. rutilans, syn. Thyrsacanthus- Flowers scarlet. 



Peristrophe, 

 1. P. tinctoria, A pretty, simple little plant, two feet high ; 



