282 GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



E. ventricosa splendens. — This is a superb variety, with 

 thick-set, long, linear, recurved leaves, furnished with 

 long white hairs at the edges ; flowers produced in great 

 profusion, nearly an inch long, swollen in the middle, the 

 tubes china white, the neck and limb rosy purple and white ; 

 it blooms in June, July, and August. 



E. ventricosa tricolor. — Leaves linear, sharp-pointed, 

 shghtly reflexed, and clothed at the edges with white woolly 

 hairs ; flowers tubular, nearly an inch long, the tubes blush, 

 the neck carmine, with white reflexed segments to the limb ; 

 it blooms during July and August. 



E. Yernoni. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate, downy, spreading ; 

 flowers flask-shaped, much swollen at the base, and nearly 

 an inch and a-half long, white, the neck green, the segments 

 of limb spreading, somewhat ovate. A very fine exhibition 

 plant. 



E. vestita alba. — In this variety the leaves are very slen- 

 der, and soft to the touch ; the flowers are pure, white, 

 scarcely an inch long, produced in whorls of from ten to 

 twenty flowers, a short distance below the ends of the 

 branches ; it blooms during the summer months, and is a 

 very elegant plant. 



E. vestita coccinea. — A beautiful erect-growing kind ; the 

 leaves are linear, dark green, thickly set upon the branches, 

 and very slender ; the flowers are produced in whorls, about 

 an inch from the ends of the branches, and are an inch or 

 more in length, tubular, slightly curved, and of a deep rich red 

 colour ; it blooms during June and July. A garden variety. 



E. vestita incarnata. — In this variety the flowers are 

 upwards of an inch long, arranged in whorls of from ten 

 to twenty near the tops of the branches, and of a delicate 

 flesh colour or pink; blooms in June and July. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



