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dance from all the points of the shoots. There is a 

 ■white-flowering foi-m called alb,r, and another, rubra, 

 •with deep red flowers, hut in hahit and appearance 

 they are identical. April and May. 



H. porspicua nana. — A dwarf close-growing plant 

 and a free hloomer ; leaves somewhat hairy, deep 

 green ; flowers disposed in terminal clusters, tubes 

 ■Blender, delicate flesh-colour ; limb white. May and 

 Jxme. 



-B. perspicua rosea. — In habit and general appeai-- 

 ance this variety resembles the preceding. The 

 flowers, however, are rich deep rose. It is a, very 

 desirable plant. May and June. 



£. primuloides. — A smaU-growing species of great 

 beauty ; leaves dense and deep green ; flowers slen- 

 der, tubes red; limb large and spreading, rosy- 

 purple. May and June. 



-B. princeps coccinea. — A beautiful but rather 

 straggling grower. The leaver are thick, hairy, and 

 dai-k green ; flowers stout, tubes bright scarlet. The 

 original H. princepa is a far less showy plant than 

 this variety. There is also a form, with pinkish 

 flesh-coloured flowers, called carnea. All ai-e ex- 

 tremely handsome. May and June. 



E. propendens. — In habit of growth this resembles 

 somewhat H. hyemalis, and, like it also, this is a very 

 free bloomer; flowers campanulate, drooping, and 

 soft purplish-lilac in colour. May to July. 



S. pyramidalU. — A soft- wooded free-growing spe- 

 cies, erect in growth, with narrow slightly woolly 

 leaves ; flowers tubiilax, produced from the points of 

 all the shoots in abundance, rosy-pink thi'oughout. 

 February to May. 



E. retorta. — An elegant hard- wooded kind ; leaves 

 recurved, dark green; flowers in terminal whorls, 

 tubes reddish-pink. June to August. 



E. retorta major. — More robust than the species, 

 and the flowers are lai-ger ; tubes red, with a darker 

 band round the neck ; limb spreading, white. July 

 to October. 



E. ruiem. — ^A small, compact, free-growing kind ; 

 leaves dense, bright green; flowers bell-shaped, 

 dark red. July to August. 



E. rubro-calyx, sometimes called ruher-calyx, and 

 also ruhida. It takes ifa name from the fact of the 

 calyx being coloured as well as the corolla. It is 

 an erect soft-wooded kind, and a free bloomer; 

 tubes pure white; calyx reddish-purple. May to 

 July. 



E. Savilleiana.—X dense-growing species witt 

 dark green leaves, and small beU-shaped flowers of 

 a, reddish-pink hue. June to August. 



E. Shannoiuana. — ^A grand variety of robust habit ; 

 leaves spreading, dark green ; flowers large, tubular, 

 -much inflated at the base, white, shaded with reddish- 

 purple. June to August. 



E. Shannoniana glabra. — A most desirable plant. It 

 is u. strong grower ; the whorls are many-flowered ; 

 the tubes are much swollen at the base, ivory-white, 

 and quite free from the viscid gum so common to 

 these plants. July and August. 



E. Sindryana, sometimes called E. zingerella. It is 

 a handsome soft- wooded plant of the hyemalis section, 

 which it much resembles both in growth and bloom. 

 It flowers, however; in March and April. 



E. Spenceriana. — This very distinct and useful 

 variety is a soft-wooded plant of free growth, with 

 dense, dark green leaves ; flowers tubular, long, and 

 slen'ler ; tubes smallest at base ; purpKsh-lilac. May 

 to July. 



E. Thunbergii. — A very curious and ornamental 

 species ; leaves glaucous ; flowers highly coloured, 

 being yellow, green, white, and scarlet. May to 

 July. 



E. tricolor coronata. — In all the varieties of E. tri- 

 color the leaves are very closely set and more or less 

 clothed with f erruginoiis hairs, which renders them 

 liable to attacks of mildew if the foliage is allowed 

 to get wet. The form now under consideration pro- 

 duces many-flowered whorls of large tubular blooms, 

 which are pinkish flesh-colour, neck banded with 

 green ; limb white. July and August. 



E. tricolor fiammea. — Flowers large, much inflated, 

 fiery-red at base, passing to white towards the upper 

 part, neck green. June and July. 



E. tricolor Boldfordiana. — Flowers very large, base 

 of tube pale flesh, passing into reddish-pink, neck 

 green. June and July. 



E. tricolor profusa. — Tubes much swollen at base, 

 where they are bright crimson, shading to rosy-car- 

 mine and white, neck yellowish-green. July and 

 August. 



E. tricolor Wihoniana. — Flowers large and much 

 inflated, sharply contracted at the throat, rosy-pink 

 at the base, passing to white, neck banded green. 

 June to August. 



E. triumphans. — This species belongs to the arW- 

 rescent section, that includes elegans, andromedeejlora, 

 Thunbergii, taxifoUa, &o., in which the calyx is 

 usually highly coloured as well as the coroUa. They 

 are also extremely difBcult to increase from cuttings, 

 but are raised from seed. The present plant is a 

 bold and somewhat coarse-growing kind; leaves 

 large, smooth, and dark green; flowers globose, 

 drooping, and pure white, with an enlarged calyx. 

 May and June. 



E. tubceformis. — A very showy kind; flowers 

 long ; the tubes rich red, mouth rosy-pink ; limb 

 spreading, white. April to July. 



E. venosa. — Leaves dark green, nearly smooth ; 

 whorls of flowers large ; tubes rich bright crimson ; 

 limb white. July and August. 



