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and flesh-coloured instead of scarlet ; a very desirable plant, 

 blooming the same time as the species. 



E. profusa. — A variety raised between E. McNabiana and 

 E. aristata major, and an abundant bloomer ; the flowers are 

 bright pink, with white disc. A very desirable variety. 



E. propendem. — A very free-flowering plant, with downy 

 leaves, four in a whorl ; the flowers are beU-shaped, and 

 purple ; it blooms during June and July very abundantly. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



E. prope^dens tuUflorai^he&ves linear, erect, clothed at 

 the edges with white .hairs, which give the whole plant a 

 greyish aspect; flowers bell-shaped, rosy purple at the base, 

 and white in front ; produced in profusion in May and June. 

 A garden hybrid* 



E. pyramidalis. — A profuse spring-flowering species ; leaves 

 linear, downy, arranged in fours ; flowers terminal, and form- 

 ing long racemes of rosy pink bloom in March and April. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



E. regerminans. — A very pretty soft-growing kind, with 

 linear, recurved leaves ; flowers small, but produced abun- 

 dantly, pale red in colour, and globular ; blooms during May 

 and June. Cape of Good Hop,e. 



E. retorta. — Leaves somewhat ovate, bent back, and fur- 

 nished at the points with a long spine; flowers arranged in 

 terminal many-flowered umbels, tubular, glutinous, gradually 

 becoming narrower at the point, where they are bright red 

 before expanding, the basal part white, tinged with pink ; it 

 blodms from June to end of August. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. retorta major. — A closerrgrowing form of the preceding, 

 with the flower tubes stouter, pink, reddish purple at the 

 points, the lobes white ; it blooms during the whole summer. 

 A garden variety. 



E. ruhens, — Of slender growth, with linear, spreading leaves, 



