previously-published Begonia of that name (see Regel’s - 
Gartenfiora, t. 871). It is a Mexican species, introduced 
by seed from Roez], according to a note published in the 
“‘Gardener’s Chronicle,” vol. xi. part 1, p. 566 (1879), by 
M. Benary, of Erfurt, who raised it. Mr. Lynch, to whom 
I am indebted for the specimen here figured, received it 
from the Rev. Mr. Law, of Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, 
and I gladly dedicate it to the indefatigable superintendent 
of the Cambridge Botanical Gardens, who has raised that 
establishment to a high degree of scientific value and of 
beauty. It flowers in early winter and for many succeeding 
months. 
Descr. Quite glabrous, moneecious. ootstock stout, 
somewhat tuberous. Stem two to three feet high, erect, 
branched, as thick as the little finger, pale bright green, 
smooth. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, five to eight 
inches long, very obliquely orbicular-oblong or subreniform, 
obscurely lobed, base deeply cordate with rounded lobes, 
margin erose and ciliolate, nerves ten to twelve, radiating 
from the petiole, bright green above, paler beneath with 
reddish nerves ; petiole shorter than the blade, as thick as 
a goose-quill; stipules an inch long, sheathing, membranous, 
very deciduous. Peduneles axillary, stout, six to ten inches 
long, as thick as a swan’s quill. Panicle corymbiform, six 
to eight inches in diameter, many-flowered, top flat, when 
young enclosed in an involucriform cup formed of two 
connate membranous bracts; flowers bright scarlet; pedicels 
half an inch long, slender. Maze fi. most abundant, 
appearing first. Perianth segments two, three-quarters of 
an inch in diameter, rounded, concave. Stamens many, in 
a hemispheric cluster; filaments free, shorter than the 
shortly oblong obtuse anthers. Femane fl. Perianth seg- 
ments two to four, much smaller than in the male, concave. 
Ovary three- to four-winged ; wings broad, rounded, dorsal — 
produced very obtuse; placentas two-partite, segments 
ovuliferous on both faces, styles three, deeply divided, with 
capitate stigmas.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, branch of female flower; 3, stigmas; 4 and 5, transverse 
sections of 4- and 6-celled ovaries :—all but fig. 2 silage. 
