286 GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



E. crista-galli. — This is often called the Cock's-comb Coral 

 Tree. The stem is woody, the foot-stalks prickly, and the 

 leaflets ovate, leathery, of a glaucous green. It produces 

 large terminal racemes of bright deep scarlet papilionaceous 

 flowers, which remain in beauty for a long time. Native of 

 Brazil. 



E. florihunda. — A very compact-growing kind, with spiny 

 stems, and fine long terminal spikes of rosy crimson flowers ; 

 the leaflets are oblong and sharp-pointed, and the terminal 

 one cordate. 



E. Madame Belanger. — This is a very dwarf variety, and 

 a free bloomer ; the flowers are of a velvety rich dark reddish 

 crimson colour. Garden hybrid. 



E. ornata. — A handsome variety, growing about two feet 

 high, and sometimes flowering even before it attains the 

 height of one foot. The racemes are long, and the flowers 

 large and closely set upon the spike, dark vermilion in colour. 

 It blooms earlier than the others, and lasts a very long time. 

 Garden hybrid. 



E. ruherrima. — This is one of the dwarf varieties of the 

 old E. crista-galli, and unites the splendid flowers of that 

 plant with a dwarf habit. It is a profuse and regular 

 bloomer, and its spikes are large, bearing quantities of its 

 large brilliant crimson rosy-tinted flowers. It is a garden 

 hybrid, thriving well under the treatment recommended 

 above, and admirably adapted for planting out in beds in 

 the summer. 



Genettllis. 



A small genus, but the plants contained in it are very 

 ornamental. The decorative property, however, does not lie 

 in the flowers, for they are small, but in the large campanu- 

 late involucres which surround them, and which are beauti- 



