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ing in tliat country as Heaths do at the Cape, seeming to 

 take the place of that genus. E. pulchella is a beautiful 

 species, having a long spike of small whitish-pink, sweet- 

 scented flowers, which appear in March and last till June ; 

 microphylla, apiculata, rmcifolia, cerceflora, nivalis, obtusi- 

 folia, heteronema and several others, are white-flowered; 

 purpurascens, is called the rigid-leaved, they af e of a hooded 

 form, with a recurved end ; the flowers are lilac, and there 

 are varieties with pale, and also with red flowers; grandi- 

 flora has pendulous crimson flowers, and is a very hand- 

 some species, and one that continues the longest in bloom, 

 though its flowers are not in great profusion at one time ; 

 they are often an inch and a half long, bright crimson near 

 the stalk and pure white below, so that they are peculiarly 

 striking; impressa and variabilis have lovely flowers; the 

 former is an elegant species, having numerous spikes of fine 

 rose-coloured flowers which appear on every branch; the 

 plant is about three feet high, and deserves a place in every 

 greenhouse. H. campamdata is equally beautiful, its blush- 

 coloured flowers being showy, and appearing in April; a 

 white variety is also cultivated ; cermflora has wax-like white 

 flowers, which are produced very freely ; E. heteronema has 

 a pure white corolla, with deep purplish-red anthers, which 



