268 GKEENHOUSE PLANTS. 



E. elegans. — A lovely plant, belonging to the same section 

 as E. Andromedcaflora, and requiring to be grown from seed. 

 Tbe calyx, instead of being green, is as richly coloured as the 

 corolla ; the leaves are long, fleshy, glaucous, linear-acute, 

 arranged in six rows upon the branches ; flowers in terminal 

 umbels of from four to six, or more, the calyx bright rosy red, 

 nearly as large as the corolla, which is rose-coloured, the 

 lobes of the contracted tube tipped with green ; it blooms 

 during the spring and summer months. Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



E. elegans glauca. — A variety of the preceding, freer in 

 growth, with longer and, as well as the branches, more erect 

 and very glaucous leaves ; flowers the same colour, but 

 larger ; it blooms at the same time as the species, and like 

 it, continues a very long time in full beauty. Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



E. eximia. — Leaves linear, but slightly spreading, hairy ; 

 flowers tubular, about an inch long, scarlet, tipped with 

 green, produced in whorls ; blooms in May and June. Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



E. exsurgens. — A strong-growing species, with smooth, 

 subulate, erect leaves, nearly half an inch long ; flowers 

 tubular, an inch and a-half long, slender at the base, and 

 dark orange in colour, with style and stamens exserted. Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



E. Fairrieana. — A beautiful form, resembling some of the 

 tricolors in general appearance ; leaves large, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, and furnished with long white hairs at the edges ; 

 flowers produced in terminal umbels, the tubes upwards of 

 an inch long, very much inflated at the base, suddenly con- 

 tracted at the top, colour rich rose, changing to purple in the 

 neck, the limb white. 



E.ferruginea. — A handsome species, but rather subject to 



