280 GREENHOUSK PLANTS. 



E. triumphans. — This belongs to the same section as E. 

 Andromedaflora, E. elegans, &c. It is of robust growth, with 

 somewhat spreading dark green leaves an inch long, and with 

 but a few short hairs ; the flowers are large, globose, white, 

 the calyx being the most conspicuous portion ; it blooms in 

 May and June, and continues a long time in full beauty. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



]•!. tubasformis. — This variety will no doubt make a 

 valuable exhibition plant, as it blooms about May, and 

 continues for a long time in full beauty. It is the result 

 of a cross between E. aristata major and E. JllcNabiana ; 

 the flowers are somewhat like those of the former, with the 

 tube bright shining red, the limb white, with a blotch of rose 

 colour on each lobe ; to this it adds the free growth of the 

 latter. 



E. Tunibullii. — A very distinct variety, which is named in 

 honour of its raiser, the veteran heath-grower and hybridiser, 

 Mr. Turnbull, of Bothwell Castle ; it is a free-growing kind 

 and an abundant bloomer. The flowers are very showy, 

 produced in umbels of from three to six, tube upwards of an 

 inch and a-half long, deep reddish pink in colour, the limb 

 being white and the throat dark purple. It is invaluable as 

 an autumn-blooming plant, its usual time of flowering being 

 August and September. 



E. ventricosa. — Compact and free- branching ; leaves dark 

 green, four in a whorl, linear, with the edges ciliated ; 

 the flowers are produced in terminal umbels of about 

 twelve, tubular, quite smooth, about three-quarters of 

 an inch long, swollen at the base, and contracted at 

 the neck, the lobes bent back, colour porcelain white, 

 tinged with flesh ; it blooms in June and July. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



E. ventricosa alba. — A handsome free-flowering variety. 



