produces a simple series of drooping flowers, in a racemose order, on simple capillary red footstalks, with a small leaf at the base of each. Calyx deeply cloven, obtuse. Petals obovate, crimson, paler on the outside, entire. Stamina equal; the filaments very short; antheræ slightly curved, with four blunt angles, and four furrows, brown, tipped with a pale simple tube, into which the four cells of the anthera open. Germen very small, obovate, compressed. Style short and simple. Capsule pendulous, obovate, compressed, pointed. Seeds two in each cell, one above the other, cylindrical, standing on a white twisted pedicle.
Every part is smooth. We have specimens of a variety with white petals, but the calyx and footstalk remain red.
EXPLANATION of TAB. II.
1. Calyx and Footstalk. 2. Petal. 3. Stamina. 4. A Stamen magnified. 5. The same cut across. 6. Capsule. 7,7. Seeds.
