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ciliated; flowers tubular, rosy red and white, produced on 

 long dense spikes during spring and early summer. A garden 

 variety. 



E. densa. — A free summer-flowering species, of erect 

 habit, producing long, slender, linear, slightly spreading dark 

 green leaves ; flowers tubular, red, the tubes short and thick, 

 contracted towards the mouth, the segments small, deeper- 

 coloured than the tubes. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. depressa. — A very distinct-growing kind, having dark 

 green subulate leaves, rather spreading ; it is of pendulous 

 habit, and of slow growth, and requires to be well exposed 

 to the sun during the autumn, after making its growth ; 

 flowers pale yellow, produced from May to July. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



E. Devoniana. — A very handsome kind, with broad, some- 

 what bluntly oblong leaves, turned back, armed at the points 

 with a sharp hair, and ciliated at the edges ; flowers umbel- 

 late, tubular, inflated at the base, and nearly an inch long, 

 rich purple in colour ; blooms during the summer months. 



E. Douglasii. — A slender-branching kind, with short, 

 blunt, spreading leaves, armed at the point with a long awn ; 

 the flower tubes flesh-coloured, slender, about an inch in 

 length, with large spreading white segments to the limb ; 

 the umbels of bloom are in full perfection in June and July. 



E. effusa. — A garden hybrid, raised between E. Mar- 

 nockiana and E. prineeps Templaa. The character of the 

 plant more resembles the former, except that the flowers are 

 larger and more freely produced, and the branches more 

 tomentose ; the flowers are produced in large terminal whorls, 

 composed of from ten to twelve flowers, which are of an 

 inflated tubular form, and of a bright scarlet crimson, with 

 slightly reflexed primrose colour segments. The habit is good, 

 and it is one of the very best late-flowering kinds. 



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