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BEGONIA argyrostigma. 
Silver-spotted Begonia. 
— 
MON CIA POLYANDRIA, 
Nat. ord. Plante 3 sedis. Polypetala germine infero. Jussien 
gen. 436. " 
. BxzcoNiACEE. Bonpland nav. et malm. 151. P. i 
affines. Link. = "ee 
BEGONIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 284. 
B. argyrostigma, caulescens, foliis semicordatis acuminatis crenulato-re- 
pandis glaberrimis suprà niveo maculatis, subtüs rubris. Link abbild. 
aus. gew. bot. gart. zu berl. 1. 23. tab. 10. 
Begonia argprostigmn. Fischer in hort. gorenk. Link enum. alt. hort. berol. 
Caulis erectus, ramosus, diffusus, 2-3 pedes altus, glaberrimus, annulis 
fuscis suprà petiolos vaginaceis. Folia alterna; petiolus pollicem. longus, 
teres; lamina semicordata, à petiolo ad apicem usque 5-6 pollices a, 2 
pollices lata, acuta, margine subcartilagineo subcrenulato repando, glaber- 
Tima, carnosa, suprà maculis subrotundis varie magnitudinis ob defectum 
pigmenti viridis in conteztá celluloso albis, medio foveolas 2 pluresve areá 
viridi cinctas continentibus, subtús paginé totá rubrá. Pedunculi axillares, 
paniculam multifforam sustinentes. Bractex 2 opposite lanceolate albe 
in singulo pedicello, (caduca). Pedicellus supera? albus. Cor. tetrapetala, 
alba, inodora, petalis 2 oppositis majoribus. Filamenta multa, brevissima. 
Antheræ oblonge. Germen alatum. Link abbild. loc. cit. 
) ale en dort e 88 : 
Said by Professor Link to be native of the Brazils, and 
to have been sent from the Gorenki Garden, at Moscow, to 
the Botanic Garden of Berlin, by Dr. Fischer. It has only 
lately been introduced into the collections of this country. 
Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's 
Road, Chelsea, where it is grown in the hothouse. 
The somewhat unwieldy specific name has been sug- 
d gested to Dr. Fischer by the silvery spots of the foliage; a 
mark which we understand is not confined to this species of 
the genus. j 
It has been figured in the above quoted periodical work 
by Professor Link, from whom we borrow the following 
account : 
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