272 GEEENHOTJSE PLANTS. 



E. Marnockiana. — This beautiful variety has oblong 

 spreading leaves, ciliated, and armed at the point with a very 

 long stiff hair ; the flowers are tubular or pitcher-shaped, 

 inflated at the base, and narrow at the neck, with a small 

 spreading limb ; the tubes are smooth (not sticky), and of a 

 glossy rich purple colour. Blooms in July and August. 



E. Massoni. — A splendid species, and one of the most 

 difficult to preserve in perfect health, being very subject to 

 mildew, through moisture being retained amongst its closely- 

 set hoary leaves. It is of slow growth, compact, and free- 

 branching ; leaves oblong, four in a whorl, serrate, and very 

 woolly ; flowers sticky, tubular, and upwards of an inch long, 

 rich deep red, tipped with yellowish green. This magnificent 

 species blooms during July and August, and continues a very 

 long time in full perfection. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. Metulaflora. — A fine species, but one that is very difii- 

 cult to grow into a good specimen ; leaves five in a whorl, 

 awl-shaped, ciliated at the edges ; flowers dark red, in ter- 

 minal umbels of from twelve to twenty, smooth, cylindrical, 

 swelling in the middle, and thus giving the name of Nine-pin 

 Heath to this plant ; it blooms from May to July. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



E. mutabilis. — One of the freest-flowering of the whole 

 genus, but very apt to suffer in the winter with mildew ; the 

 leaves are arranged four in a whorl, linear-obtuse, and hairy ; 

 flowers in terminal umbels, the tubes three-quarters of an 

 inch long, smooth, bright red ; it blooms nearly the whole 

 season. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. obbata cordata. — This novelty is very free, producing 

 large flowers of a pure delicate white colour ; if exposed to 

 the open air for a few days it assumes a rosy tinge, another 

 point in its favour is that it is destitute of gum on the exterior 

 of the flowers. Garden hybrid. 



