GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS. 



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

 white -flowering form called alha, and another, rubra, 

 with deep red flowers, hut in habit and appearance 

 they are identical. April and May. 



E. perspicua nana. — A dwarf close-growing plant 

 and a free bloomer ; leaves somewhat hairy, deep 

 green ; flowers disposed in terminal clusters, tubes 

 .slender, delicate flesh-colour ; limb white. May and 

 June. 



U. perspicua rosea. — In habit and general appear- 

 ance this variety resembles the preceding. The 

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

 desirable plant. May and June. 



E. primuloides. — A small-growing species of great 

 beauty ; leaves dense and deep green ; flowers slen- 

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

 purple. May and June. 



E. princeps eoccinea. — A beautiful but rather 

 straggling grower. The leaves are thick, hairy, and 

 dark green ; flowers stout, tubes bright scarlet. The 

 original E. princeps is a far less showy plant than 

 this variety. There is also a form, with pinkish 

 flesh-coloured flowers, called carnea. All are ex- 

 tremely handsome. May and June. 



E. propendens. — In habit of growth this resembles 

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

 free bloomer; flowers campanulate, drooping, and 

 soft purplish-lilac in colour. May to July. 



E. pyramidalis. — A soft- wooded free-growing spe- 

 cies, erect in growth, with narrow slightly woolly 

 leaves ; flowers tubular, produced from the points of 

 all the shoots in abundance, rosy-pink throughout. 

 February to May. 



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

 recui'ved, dark green ; flowers in terminal whorls, 

 tubes reddish-pink. June to August. 



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

 and the flowers are larger ; tubes red, with a darker 

 band round the neck ; limb spreading, white! July 

 to October. 



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

 leaves dense, bright green ; flowers bell-shaped, 

 dark red. July to August. 



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

 also rubido. It takes its 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. — A dense-growing species with 

 dark green leaves, and small bell-shaped flowers of 

 a reddish-pink hue. June to August. 



E. Shannoniana. — 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 a 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. Speneeriana. — This very distinct and useful 

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

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

 slen 'sr ; tubes smallest at base ; purphsh-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 ferruginous 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 flammea. — Flowers large, much inflated, 

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

 part, neck green. June and July. 



E. tricolor Holdfordiana. — 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 Wilsoniana. — 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 arloo - 

 rescent section, that includes elegans, andromedceflora, 

 Thunbergii, taxifolia, &c., in which the calyx is 

 usually highly coloured as well as the corolla. They 

 are also extremely difficult 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. 



