Tab. 5675. 



BEGONIA Clarkei. 



Major Trevor Clarke's Begonia. 



Nat. Ord. Beciontaceje. — Mojkecia Poeyandbia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4131.) 



Begonia (§ Huszia) Clarkei; caulescens, caule erecto robusto puberulo 

 colorato parce ramoso, foliis oblique rotundato-eordatis obtusis lobu- 

 lars et crenatis nervis radiantibus ciliolatis, superne pallide viridibus, 

 nervis subtus prominulis, stipulia late triangularibus, pedunculis ro- 

 bustis axillaribus 2-bracteatis 2-floris, pedicellis 2-bracteolatis, bracteis 

 bracteolisque late oblongis obtusis, floribus amplis la3te roseis, ? 5- 

 petalis. 



Begonia Clarkei. Nob. supra, sub Tab. 5663. 



I have already stated with regard to this lovely Begonia, 

 under the description of B. Veitchii, that I had, from imper- 

 fect specimens, regarded it as a form of the latter plant. A 

 fine-flowering specimen, sent by Major Clarke to the Royal 

 Gardens, shows a considerable difference between them, and 

 enables me to give a figure of it here. From a comparison of 

 this with Tab. 5663 (B. Veitchii), it will be seen that the pre- 

 sent differs in being a caulescent, branched, pubescent but 

 not pilose plant, with purple stem and branches, large opaque 

 foliage, axillary peduncles, and larger, deep rose-coloured 

 flowers. 



B. Clarkei is probably a native of a wanner region than 

 B. Veitchii, and, as Major Clarke assures me, requires the 

 temperature of a warm greenhouse. This gentleman had 

 possessed the specimens here figured for several years before 

 flowering it, and received it from Messrs. Henderson as a 

 native of Peru. This is apparently the same as a plant gath- 

 ered by Mandon, near Sorata, in the Bolivian Andes, at an 

 elevation of eight to nine thousand feet, of which specimens, 

 without name, are preserved in the Hookerian Herbarium. 

 Whether this and B. Veitchii, together with another allied to 



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