are from two to nine, oyately 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. 
(@) 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 
Carices; it is subglobular, smooth, open, and indented at 
the top, from which the stigmas are a little protruded. 
