Tas. 5021. 
BEGONIA tbaciIniata. 
Cut-leaved Begonia. 
Nat. Ord. BrGonrace®.—Monecia PoLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.) 
Brconta Jaciniata; caule ramoso petiolis pedunculis pedicellisque pubescenti- 
hirsutis, foliis oblique cordatis laciniato-pinnatifidis pictis, laciniis acumi- 
natis acute serratis, floribus masculis tetrasepalis, sepalis patentibus duobus 
multo majoribus extus rubro-tomentosis, foemineis, pentasepalis, sepalis erec- 
tis omnibus extus rufo-tomentosis, capsula hispido-tomentosa alis 2 mino- 
ribus equalibus unica ovata obtusa. 
Brconta laciniata. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 8. p. 649. Wall. Cat. n. 3678. 
For seeds of this truly ornamental Begonia, we are indebted 
to Dr. Royle, of the India House. Dr. Roxburgh gives it as a 
native of the Garrow Hills, in Eastern Bengal, Dr. Wallich of 
Silhet and Nepal. he first of these authors speaks of it as bi- 
ennial: be that as it may, it is readily increased by cuttings, and 
young plants flower better and take a better form than the old 
and straggling ones. The flowers, especially the staminiferous 
ones, are among the largest of the genus, and very striking from 
the almost bright-red tomentum on the white ground of the se- 
pals. he foliage, in the living plant, is beautifully variegated, 
a circumstance not noticed by Dr. Roxburgh, perhaps because 
he made his description from dried specimens, where this cha- 
racter would, in a measure at least, disappear. We do not find 
that our friend Dr. Klotzsch has introduced the species into his 
‘Genera and Species of Begonia,’ though published by Dr. Rox- 
burgh in 1830. 
Descr. Plant at first erect, then becoming more or less strag- 
gling, one to two feet high. Stem and branches green, stout, 
terete, downy. Leaves petiolate, five to six inches long, ob- 
liquely cordate, acuminate, laciniated or rather pinnatifid (but 
not very deeply), glabrous, dark-green above, the margin and 
DECEMBER Ist, 1857. 
