278 GBEENHOUSK PLANTS. 



pitcher-shaped, pale red, the anthers black; blooms during 

 August and early part of September. Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



E. sulphurea. — A free -growing plant, with erect linear 

 leaves, clothed with short hairs ; flowers produced on the 

 ends of the lateral growths, and thus forming long spikes 

 of bloom, tubular, and sUghtly curved, sulphur yellow, clothed 

 with long light coloured hairs, calyx woolly ; it blooms during 

 the summer months. Cape of Good Hope. 



E. taxifolia. — ^Leaves three in a whorl, smooth and 

 spreading; flowers in terminal clusters, erect, globose, the 

 calyx and corolla bright pink ; blooming in May and June. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



E. Thunbergii. — A beautiful and most distinct species, and 

 one difficult to grow into a good specimen. The leaves are 

 linear, blunt, glaucous, and arranged in threes ; the flowers 

 are pendulous, upon long foot-stalks, the calyx yellowish 

 green, as long as the corolla, which is round and white, the 

 limb composed of four large ovate segments, forming a bell- 

 shaped cup of rich scarlet ; it blooms in May and June. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



E. tricolor. — Leaves slightly spreading, linear-oblong, 

 ciliate, and armed with a, stiflf straight hair at the point ; 

 flowers in umbels, tubular, about an inch long, reddish at the 

 base, passing into white, and tipped with green ; blooms in 

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



E. tricolor fiammea.— -This variety is of free growth; the 

 leaves are bluntly oblong, slightly recurved, armed at the 

 point with a long straight awn, and the edges clothed with 

 such a profusion of long hairs as to give the whole plant 

 a hoary appearance ; the flowers are flask-shaped, with a 

 considerably extended base, nearly an inch and a-half long, 

 flame red at the base, passing into white, with the top of the 



