102 STOVE PLANTS. 



flowers bright magenta, produced in large panicles from the 

 extremities of the branches. This plant is well flowered in 

 the Palm House, at Kew. Native of the Himalayas. 



E. Cooperi. — A handsome, half shrubby, free-flowerin 

 plant. The leaves are about three inches long, and five 

 inches wide, narrow-lanceolate, with the margins deeply 

 cut, or inciso-lobate, and dark green in colour. The flowers 

 spring from the axils of the leaves, and are white, beauti- 

 fully spotted with small purple dots, arranged in lines. A 

 native of New Caledonia. 



E. jmh-hellum. — An old inhabitant of our stoves, and one 

 of the prettiest for winter decoration. The leaves are petio- 

 late, broadly ovate, dark green, the surface somewhat wrinkled; 

 the flowers are produced very freely, and are of a rich bright 

 blue colom'. Native of the East Indies. 



EUCHAKIS. 



E. grmuliflora is a plant to which any description would 

 fail to do justice, and one which will well repay every care 

 that may be bestowed upon it. We have frequently seen this 

 plant with thirty and forty spikes of its lovely pure white 

 flowers expanded at Christmas. Such a sight would at any 

 time command attention, but at that particular season it is 

 doubly valuable. With a little judicious management, and a 

 moderate stock of plants, the EucJiaris can be had in flower 

 at almost any time of the year. We prefer it through the 

 winter months, and if hardened off gradually, it will at that 

 season stand for a long time, if wanted for the decoration of 

 halls or rooms in the dwelling-house. 



This grand plant, which is generally found in collec- 

 tions under the name of E. amazonica, belongs to the 

 AmaryUiilacem, and is a native of Choco, in New Grenada. 



