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*BEGÓNIA herácleifólia. 
Parsnip-leaved Begonia, 
25. s 
MONACIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. BEcoNt1AcEX, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 169.) | 
BEGONIA. Supra, vol. 4, fol. 284. 
C. heracleifolia ; acaulis, foliis subeegualibus ambitu orbicularibus cordatis pro- 
funde septem-lobatis lanceolatis inzqualiter sinuato-sublobatis denticulatisgue 
ciliatis utringue rariter sparsim pilosis supra planis obscuris subtus pallidis 
vesiculiferis : nervis prominulis fuscescentibus hirtellis, petiolo pedunculoque 
patentim hirsutis. De Schlecht et Chamiss. in Linnea, vol. 5, p. 603. 
B. radiata. Graham in Edinb. New Phil. Journal for July, 1833, 
Fructus trialatus, glaber; alis rotundatis, duabus nanis herbaceis, 
alterá roseá elongatá ascendente. 
Â native of Mexico, where it was met with by the Ger- 
man travellers Schiede and Deppe, in several localities. In 
the Linnza three are mentioned, namely, shady places in 
Jalapa, in March; near Hacienda de la Lagunain Sep- 
tember; Baranca de Tioselo in October. It is therefore 
probable that it flowers nearly all the year round in its own 
country as it does in England. 
The plant from which our drawing was taken was re- 
ceived by the Hortieultural Society from the Botanic 
Garden, Berlin. It is a very free growing hot-house plant, 
producing its rosy flowers in every month of the year; all 
thatit demands at the hand of the cultivator is heat, moisture 
and a full exposure to light. If kept too much in the shade, 
the flowers lose the bright rosy tint which is natural to them, 
and with it their beauty. 
Our learned friend, Dr. Graham, who obligingly pointed 
out to us the identity of his B. radiata with B. heracleifolia, 
thus describes it :—“ Leaves (seven inches across) bright 
© See folio 1252. 
