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E. vestita rosea. — A lovely variety, with flowers produced 

 in whorls of from twenty to thirty, scarcely so long in the 

 tube as the form called coccinea, but of a rosy red colour, 

 blooming in August and September. 



E. Victoria. — This beautiful kind has thick, somewhat 

 ovate leaves, armed at the point with a long hair, and 

 round the edges with short stiff spines; flowers produced 

 in umbels, flask-shaped, an inch or more long, deep purple, 

 with white segments ; it blooms during summer, and is an 

 invaluable exhibition plant. 



E. Westphalingia. — An erect-growing kind, with linear- 

 obtuse leaves, and a profusion of rosy red tubular flowers, 

 an inch in length ; it blooms during the summer months. 



E. Wilmoreana superha. — A lovely kind for early spring 

 flowering. The leaves are linear, covered with short white 

 hairs, as also are the branches ; flowers bell-shaped, upwards 

 of half an inch long, rich purple, the ends white, produced 

 upon the short lateral growths, and thus forming spikes of 

 blooms twelve and eighteen inches long. A garden variety. 



Ebiostemon. 



A genus of compact free-growing evergreen shrubs, 

 some of which are well deserving a place in every col- 

 lection. They are natives of New Holland, and belong 

 to the order Rutacem. The plants should be potted in a 

 mixture of loam and peat in equal parts, made very sandy ; 

 artificial heat is injurious to them, but care must be taken 

 that damp be kept from them in winter ; they delight in 

 an airy situation in the New Holland house, and are 

 exceedingly valuable for exhibition purposes, as they are 

 easily retarded for flowering at different periods during 

 the spring months. 



