Tab. 4172 

 begonia albo-coccinea. 



Scarlet and White-flowered Begonia, or Elephant's Ear. 



Nat. Ord. Begoniace.e. — Moncecia Polyandria. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra Tab. 4131.; 



Begonia albo-coccinea ; acaulis, foliis oblique ovatis obtusissimis subre- 

 niformibua peltatis coriaceo-carnosis sublobato-sinuatis glaberrimis 

 longitudine petiolorum, petiolis appresso-hirsutis, sepalis 2 exteri- 

 oribus rotundatis (extus coccineis), reliquis minoribus obovatis (albis), 

 fructu turbinate) trialato alis latis subaequalibus. 



One of the most lovely of this beautiful Genus, which we 

 cannot too much recommend for cultivation to all admirers 

 of hothouse plants, blooming throughout the spring and 

 summer months ; the flowers numerous, white and coral-red. 

 Our plants were raised in the Royal Gardens of Kew, from 

 seeds sent from India by — Strachan, Esq., of Twickenham, 



Surrey. 



Descr. Stem none ; or so short, that the plant may fairly 

 be called stemless. From a short, thick column, spring the 

 stout, red-colored leaf -stalks, two to five or six inches long, 

 terete, with scattered appressed hairs on the surface ; their 

 base sheathed with large, lax, membranaceous stipules. Leaves 

 from two to five or six inches in diameter; m general the 

 length being about equal to that of the petiole, quite glabrous, 

 obliquely ovate, very obtuse, approaching to remlorm the 

 margins slightly reflexed, sinuate, and unequally sublobate, 

 peltate, the point of insertion excentric, and towards the prin- 

 cipal sinus. The texture is thick, between fleshy and cori- 

 aceous. Scapes a foot to a foot and a half high, twice as 

 long as, or more, than the leaves, terete, red, branched 

 above into a many-flowered, spreading, ax panicle with small 

 bracteas at the setting on of the branches. Male flowers of 

 four sepals ; two outer and larger ones, nearly orbicular, red 

 externally, white within: two inner, smaller, obovate, white, 



