Tas. 5107. 
BEGONIA xanturina; var. Lazuli. 
Yellowflowered Begonia; Lapis-Lazult var. 
Nat. Ord. BreGonracE®.—Mone@cia POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4172.) 
Brconta zanthina, Hook. (For specific character and synonyms see our Tab. 
5102 of the present volume.) 
Var. Lazuli ; foliis immaculatis supra metallico-purpureis ceruleo-tinctis. (Tas. 
Nostr. 5107.) 
Brconra Lazuli. Linden, Suppl. Cat. Pl. Exot. 1858, p. 2 (name). 
Mr. Linden, the distinguished horticulturist at Brussels, has 
great merit in having of late years introduced to our Euro- 
pean stoves a series of plants of the genus ot eae “from Assam, 
of very great beauty, both in respect o flower and foliage ; 
the latter remarkable for its great size and metallic lustre, 
and exhibiting, in these leaves, a considerable variety both in 
the nature and disposition of the spots. To this group belong 
the Begonia Rex (see our Tab. 5101), the Begoma amabilis, 
argentea, and Victoria, of Linden, and B: Lazuli of the same 
author (the plant here figured); all these belong to one and the 
same group, of which our B. 2anthina (Bot. Mag. t. 4683) from 
Bhotan may be considered the type, if it be not, as I am in- 
duced to suppose it is, the common parent of all, assisted, as 
may probably be the case with the Begonia Rez, by a cross 
with some pink-flowered species. Indeed the B. Victoria of 
Linden (as it proves to be, see our Tab. 5102) I had no hesita- 
tion in considering as a painted-leaved variety of B. vanthina, 
and I have as little in referring our present plant to that also. 
But it deserves a place in every ornamental stove as much as if 
it were a distinct species. Linden himself alludes to the analogy 
in question. “Sans avoir la prétention de se comparer a lespéce 
précédente (B. Rez), ce Begonia est néanmoins d'une grande 
APRIL Ist, 1859. 
