14 flowering branches arise, or one or more prostrate 



steras bearing leaves and flowers at their ends and be- 

 coming deciduous, S 



2. C?.l\^-lobes shorter th^n or about equalling the petals, 



never exceeding them. 3 



Calvx-lobes always or at first distinctly longer than the 

 petals (sometimes on the third day the petals become 

 about as long as the calyx-lobes), stem enduring for 

 2-3 years. 4 



5. Stem un to 2 feet or more high, erect, enduring for 6-9 

 years; corolla 3-4 inches in diameter, with the outer 

 petals an inch or more long and ^ -1 line broad. 



1, pugioniformis. 



Stem under 6 inches high, erect; corolla l^--2 inches in 

 diameter, with the outer petals 9-10 lines long and 

 4-i line broad, 2, brevicaulis, 



4. Inner calyx-lobes v/ith pallid, membranous margins; pedicels 



terete, smooth; corolla li-lj- inches in diameter, ex- 

 pending in the afternoon, 3, communis. 



Inner calyx-lobes with blackish or dark fuscous membrsnous 

 margins. 5 



5. Pedicels angular at the u'-ner part and slightly roughish 



to the touch; corolla about 3 inches in diameter; 

 leaves stated to be "nearly a foot" in length. 



4, ca pens is. 



Pedicels terete, smooth, not angular. 5, pulliloba, 



6. x^ootstock tuberous; leaves -triangular in cross section, 



with flat or concave sides and sharp edges and keel; 



some of the calyx-lobes much longer than the petals. 7 



Rootstock tuberous; leaves subterete or channelled dov^-n 

 the face vdth rounded edges and rounded or obtusely- 

 keeled on the back; membranous margins of the inner 

 •calyx-lobes blackish or dark fuscous. 8 



7. Calyx without tubercles under the sinuses between the lobes 



snd the membranes of the lobes whitish or pallid; 

 capsule 13-18 lines indiamete"^ with valves 6-7 lines 

 long. Sijiii, 



Calyx with small tubercles under the sinuses betv/een the 

 lobes at the end of raised ribs radiating from the pedi- 

 cel (sometimes absent), and the membranes of the lobes 

 blackish; cansule about 12 lines in diameter with valves 

 about 5 line' long. I'iuirii, 



8. Calyx-lobes shorter than or about equalling the petals. 9 



