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oblong, and, as well as the branches, clothed with white woolly 

 hairs ; flowers in small pendulous umbels, the calyx enveloped 

 in long white woolly hairs, out of which the pink corolla 

 emerges, and beyond this the jet black stamens ; it blooms in 

 great profusion, and is a charming object when in flower. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



E. campanulata. — Leaves awl-shaped, smooth, three in a 

 whorl ; flowers drooping, campanulate, bright yellow ; it 

 flowers very abundantly during May and June. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



E. Candolleana. — Leaves erect, clothed with long hairs at 

 the edges, and somewhat oblong ; flowers upwards of an inch 

 long, produced in umbels, rosy red at the base, white towards 

 the end ; blooming d»ring June and July. 



E. Cavendishiana. — Leaves subulate, slightly spreading, 

 bright dark green ; flowers tubular, nearly an inch long, stout, 

 and of a rich bright yeUow colour ; it forms a splendid 

 shrub, and flowers in great profusion during May, June, and 

 July. 



E. cerinthoides. — A very showy species, of somewhat lax 

 growth ; the leaves are arranged four in a whorl, linear- 

 lanceolate, and clothed with long hairs at the edges ; the 

 flowers are umbellate at the points of the shoots, nearly an 

 inch long, and in clusters of from fifteen to twenty or more, 

 tubular, slightly contracted at the mouth, deep scarlet, hairy ; 

 it blooms during August and September. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. cerinthoides coronata. — This kind differs in having 

 shorter and narrower leaves, which lie closer to the stem ; the 

 flowers are brilliant scarlet, arranged in heads of from twenty 

 to thirty ; it blooms during the late summer and early 

 autumn. 



E. colorans superba. — ^An improvement upon the original 

 E. colorans; the leaves are linear, slightly spreading and 



