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E. odorata. — Leaves glaudularly ciliated, four in a 

 whorl ; flowers campanulate, the foot-stalks pink, the corolla 

 white, and yielding the fragrance of Otto of Eoses ; it blooms 

 during May, June, and July. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. opulenta. — This is another garden hybrid, the result of 

 a cross between E. Farrieana and E. cerinthoides coronata, 

 but is totally distinct from both, in flower and habit. The 

 blooms are long and tubular, with much-inflated base, and 

 are of the brightest crimson lake, with a reddish brown ring 

 near the mouth, having a pink and white shaded lip. The 

 flowers are produced in immense terminal whorls, consisting 

 of as many as twelve to fifteen blooms on each. A fine 

 autumn- flowering variety. 



E. ornata. — A distinct variety raised between E. obbata 

 and E. Farrieana, while the plant is quite distinct in aspect 

 from either ; the blooms assume the form of those of the 

 latter, being large, of a tubular form, and much inflated at 

 their base, being a French white shading into a soft car- 

 mine at the base of the tube, with a greenish band encircling 

 the top of the throat ; lip smooth and nearly white. Splendid 

 habit, somewhat resembling E. obbata, it flowers in July 

 and August. 



E. ovata. — Leaves oblong, beautifully ciliated, slightly 

 spreading ; flowers in terminal umbels, tubular, with a nar- 

 row throat, nearly an inch and a-half long, much inflated, 

 red, shading to purple, the lobes small, white ; it blooms in 

 June and July. A very fine plant. 



E. Parmentieriana rosea. — A plant of compact, dwarf, free- 

 flowering habit ; the leaves are bright dark green, linear, and 

 spreading ; flowers produced usually in fours from the points 

 of each lateral growth, and thus forming immense clusters 

 of deep rosy purple flask-shaped blooms in July and August. 



E. Paxtoniana. — A very fine variety, with linear -oblong 



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