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E. scaber. — A handsome species, with linear, entire, dark 

 green leaves, armed at the point with a long sharp bristle, 

 and quite rough in appearance from the glandular dots with 

 which they are covered. The flowers are produced in great 

 profusion from March to June, and are pinkish white. Native 

 of New Holland. 



Erythkixa. 



A genus of Leguminosm, remarkable for its fine bold leaves 

 and handsome flowers. The plants require to be kept quite 

 dry during winter, and when they show signs of starting in 

 spring, they should be shaken out of the soil, and repotted. 

 The soil best adapted for them is a mixture of loam, peat, 

 and well-rotted manure, in the proportion of about two parts 

 of loam to one of each of the others, and to this may be added 

 a little sand. Though they will do very well in the green- 

 house, yet a temperature of about 60° and a moist atmosphere 

 is most conducive to their well-being. When the flowers are 

 about to open the plants should be removed to a cooler 

 house, which will cause the blooms to last much longer. After 

 flowering they will go to rest again until the following spring, 

 the shoots having been cut back to the old wood. In the 

 South of England and Ireland many of the species will 

 thrive admirably in the open air the whole year, if the crown 

 is well protected in winter. They are easily increased in 

 spring if the young shoots are taken off when about an inch 

 or two in length, but they should have a heel, or piece of the 

 old wood, attached ; insert them in sand and keep rather 

 dry at first. 



E. Cottyana. — A robust branching variety, both leaves and 

 stems being of a pale green. The flowers are deep rich red, 

 and most abundantly produced in terminal racemes ; the 

 leaflets are ovate, the terminal one ovate-oblong. 



