Dalgleish during a journey from Kashmir to Yarkand, in 
Central Asia. The collection consisted largely of seeds of 
cultivated plants. 
Drscr. A branching annual herb, three to four feet 
high, covered with hispid spreading hairs. Stem as thick 
as the little finger at the base ; branches erect and ascending, 
flowering copiously. Leaves three to five inches long, 
sessile, ovate or lanceolate, irregularly pinnatifidly lobed, 
the lobes erect, coarsely toothed. Flowers long-peduncled, 
two to three and a half inches in diameter; buds before 
expansion one inch long. Petals broadly wedge-shaped, 
one pair smaller than the other, crenulate, from pale rose 
to bright crimson, with a diffused white or blue-black 
blotch at the base. Filaments filiform, about equalling the 
pistil. Capsule one-half to three-quarters of an inch in 
diameter, subglobose, very shortly stipitate, quite glabrous; 
stigma very broad, with twelve to twenty rays and rounded 
crenatures, the latter of which overlap.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Capsule of the natural size. 
