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rose-red, wide-spreading. Scales small, spreading, rounded, almost colourless. 

 Carpels equalling the stamens, white, the short styles slightly spreading. 



Fig. 75. — S. helium Rose. 



Flowers May (gentle heat) ; July-September (cold frame). Very 

 sensitive to frost. 



Habitat. — Versada, Oaxaca, Mexico. 



My plants came from the Missouri Botanic Garden (whence it 

 was first described) and from Washington (unnamed), and Edinburgh 

 (unnamed). 



