are from two to nine, ovately oblong, tomentosely villous, 

 and crowned with a stigma which is red and curled ; the 

 capsules an inch long, furred with reddish villi, terminated 

 by the stigma, 5-7-seeded, spreading wide open when ripe. 

 This varies with flowers which are generally either full, or 

 else semi-double, of a very red or white colour, with the 

 petals either nearly entire or else indented; the branches of 

 greater or less length; with a larger and paler foliage, or 

 with a smaller deeper green one. 



(J3) has very large semi-double white flowers with a deep 

 purple radiated mark at the base of the petals. The petals 

 are generally torn or jagged at the top. The capsules are 

 almost always six in number, villous, and twoseeded. Mr. 

 Brown was the first to observe, and describe, the curious 

 fleshily membranous envelop which holds the germens 

 together, and which is somewhat analogous to that in the 

 Carkes; it is subglobular, smooth, open, and indented at 

 the top, from which the stigmas are a little protruded. 



