Tas. 6788, 
BEGONIA Lynonwana. 
Native of Mewico. 
Nat. Ord. BecontaceZ. 
Genus Broconta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol.i. p. 841.) 
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Brconsa (Begoniastrum) Lyncheana; monoica, glaberrima, rhizomate tuberoso, 
caule crasso erecto ramoso folioso, foliis breviter petiolatis late oblique oblongo- 
ovatis rotundatisve obscure lobatis denticulatis ciliolatis basi profunde cordato- 
2-lobis, stipulis magnis, pedunculis elongatis validix, corymbis terminalibus 
amplis multifloris, floribus coccineis, masculis precovioribus, perianthii segmentis 
2 orbiculatis, staminibus undique patentibus, antheris brevibus oblongis obtusis 
filamentis liberis longioribus, fl. fem. perianthii segmentis 2-1-parvis concavis 
ovario 3-4-ptero, alis latis obtusis dorsali elongato, stylis 3 profunde fissis 
stigmatibus subglobosis, placentis 2-fidis lobis un tique ovaliferis. 
B. Roezlii, Lynch in “ The Garden,” vol. xxiv. p. 162, t. 492 (xon Regel). 
A very noble species of a genus the ornamental species 
of which, numerous as they are, both Indian and American, 
are far from being exhausted for garden purposes. It 
belongs to the American set of the genus, but does not fit 
well into any of the sixty-one sections as defined by A. De 
Candolle in his elaborate monograph of the genus published 
in the fifteenth volume of the Prodromus. It comes near 
to Gireoudia, from which it differs in the multifid styles, 
in the free spreading filaments, and in the anthers not being 
in a compressed one-sided mass. Upon the whole, I believe 
its affinity is with the species of the section Begoniastrum, 
A. DC. (Begonia proper of Klotzsch), notwithstanding the 
few perianth lobes of the female flower, and the much 
divided styles; and in this case its near ally is B. nitida, 
Ait. (see Tab. 4046), with which it precisely accords in 
habit. The styles are in fact nearly those of section Husyia, 
A. DC., but are less deeply divided (see B. octopetala, 
t. 8559, B. rubricaulis, t. 4181, B. Clarkei, t. 5675, and 
B, roseflora, t. 5680). | 
B. Lyncheana has been known under the name of B. 
Roezli, apparently given in ignorance of there being a 
JUNE Ist, 1884, 
