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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. — 5. 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) . 
