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E. hyacinthiflora. — Flowers pink, spikes long; the plant 

 itself being of robust habit. 



E. hyacinthiflora carminata. — Flowers produced in long 

 compact spikes, tube stout, lobes recurved, colour , bright 

 carmine and rose ; a very handsome variety. 



E. hyacinthiflora candidissima. — Flowers pure white, and 

 one of the best of its class. 



E. hyacinthiflora fulgens. — This is probably the best pink 

 variety grown. 



E. impressa. — A beautiful species, with lanceolate-sessile 

 leaves, and short tubular crimson flowers ; it is later flower- 

 ing than many of the varieties, usually coming in about April. 

 Native of New Holland and Tasmania. 



E. Ingramii. — A very handsome form ; flowers deep red in 

 the tubes, the lobes pinkish. 



E. Lady Alice Peel. — A very distinct kind, with beautiful 

 large salmon-coloured flowers. 



E. Lady Fanmure. — This is a fine variety, with pure white 

 flowers, which are beautifully suffused with rose. 



E. Lowii. — In this the flowers are produced in great 

 abundance, and have pure white tubes, tipped with rosy 

 purple. 



E. niiniata. — A species of more lax growth than most 

 others ; indeed, it represents a natural division of the family, 

 consisting of species somewhat scandent in habit, and which 

 should be either trained upon a wire trellis or staked to 

 make a specimen, and which, moreover, should not be pruned 

 so hard as the dwarf-growing species and varieties. The 

 leaves are heart-shaped, sharp-pointed, and of a shining dark 

 green ; the flowers are long, pendulous, leaning all on one 

 side, bright vermilion in the tubes, the limb and end of tube 

 white. Native of New Holland. 



E. miniata splendens. — A great improvement upon the 



