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long, pure white. It blooms during June and July. A garden 

 variety. 



E. jubata. — ^A beautiful species, with linear, somewhat 

 sticky, incurved leaves, four in a whorl ; flowers with a flat 

 limb and short tube, red; blooming in July and August. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



E. LinncBana superba. — A magnificent variety, and a great 

 improvement upon the species. ' The leaves are linear-lanceo- 

 late, hairy, arranged four in a whorl. The flowers are up- 

 wards of half an inch long, bell-shaped, rich purple and white, 

 produced in dense spikes of from six to twelve inches in 

 length, in March and April. Of garden origin. 



E. lutea. — Leaves linear, smooth, closely pressed to the 

 much-branched stem ; flowers, both calyx and corolla, pale 

 yellow. It forms dense masses of bloom during spring and 

 early summer. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. mammosa. — Leaves linear-subulate, smooth, and erect ; 

 flowers in umbels, drooping, reddish purple, produced in 

 great profusion in August and September. Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



E. McNabiana. — Leaves short, thick, and blunt, armed 

 with an awn at the point, slightly spreading ; flowers sticky, 

 nearly an inch and a-half long, stoutest a httle belpw the 

 middle, tube rosy red, deep reddish purple at the neck, with 

 a white limb. It blooms in May, June, and July. Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



E. McNabiana rosea. — This differs from the preceding by 

 having longer and more recurved leaves, which are closely set 

 upon the stems and branches, and serrate at their edges. 

 The flowers are about the same size, bright rose in the tubes, 

 veined with a deeper shade of the same colour, neck deep 

 purple, limb white ; blooms in May, June, and July. A 

 garden varietj-. 



