270 GBEENHOUSE PLANTS. 



and upwards of an inch long ; filaments red, projecting 

 beyond the tube ; it blooms in June and July. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



E. grandinosa. — A pretty species, with smooth linear leaves, 

 three in a whorl ; flowers small, ovate, pure white, pendulous, 

 produced in threes ; blooming during spring and early sum- 

 mer. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. hyhrida. — An erect-growing species, with long, linear, 

 vivid green leaves ; flowers an inch in length, bright red, and 

 produced in long dense spikes in May and June. 



E. hyemalis. — A splendid spring-flowering plant, with 

 linear, sharp-pointed leaves, which are covered with short 

 hairs ; the flowers are bell-shaped, rosy pink at the base, and 

 white towards the ends, produced in long dense leafy spikes, 

 some ten or twelve inches in length ; for blooming in winter 

 and early spring this plant is invaluable. 



E. infundibuliformis. — A handsome species, with filiform, 

 blunt, smooth, dark green erect leaves ; flowers terminal, 

 tubular ; the tubes slender, nearly an inch long, of a light 

 red colour, the segments of the tube large, spreading, pure 

 white. It blooms in great profusion in late summer and 

 autumn. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. intermedia. — A fine plant, producing long spikes of 

 drooping white flowers during the autumn months ; the 

 leaves are somewhat ovate-lanceolate, smooth, and spreading. 



E. Irbyana. — Leaves linear acute, short, and spreading ; 

 flowers upwards of an inch in length, tubular, slightly swollen 

 at the base, white, tinged with red, green at the neck. Its 

 terminal umbels of flowers are produced in June and July. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



E. Jasminiflora alba. — Leaves linear-oblong, cihate, armed 

 at the point with a long stifi' awn, and lying close to the 

 stems ; flowers umbellate, flask-shaped, upwards of an inch 



