Tas. 5256, 
BEGONIA GLANDULOSA. 
Glandular-leaved Begonia. 
Nat. Ord. BEGonIAcE®.—Mona@cia PoLyANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.) 
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BrGonta glandulosa; rhizomate crasso suberecto flexuoso, stipulis magnis 
ovatis acuminatis, petiolis elongatis teretibus pilosis, foliis late oblique 
orbiculari-cordatis acuminatis sinuato-dentatis carnosis utrinque nitidis su- 
perne venis nigro-pictis glaberrimis, subtus minutissime pustulatis, scapo 
elongato tereti glabrato folia wquante v. superante, cyma repetite dicho- 
toma ramulis laxe trichotome ramosis multifloris, ramulis pedicellisque 
gracilibus, floribus parvis, masculis sepalis 2 ovato-orbiculatis, staminibus 
6-8, foemineis sepalis 4 oblongis, capsule ala magna triangulari. 
Beeonta glandulosa, 4. De Candolle in Herb. Hook. 
BEGontra multinervia. Liebm., Mewic. Begon. p. 18 ? 
Brconta nigro-venia. Hort. Linden. 
This plant was received from Mr. Linden seven years ago, 
under the name of B. nigro-venia. It is certainly identical with 
a plant called in our herbarium B. glandulosa, A. DC., by De 
Candolle himself, when preparing the Begonias for publication 
in the forthcoming volume of the ‘Prodromus, and which was 
gathered by Seemann at Veraguas. (See Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iv. 
vol. ii. p. 148.) This plant, however, agrees with Liebmann’s 
description of B. multinervia, from Costa Rica, so closely that 
it is not improbable that they may be the same. : 
Drscr. Rhizome stout, prostrate, ascending, covered with 
stipular scales. Petioles a span long and upwards, terete, 
bright-red, rather hairy. Zeaf four to six inches broad, of a 
fleshy texture, obliquely broadly ovate or cordate, or almost ro- 
tundate, with an open or closed deep sinus, and obscurely | si- 
nuate-toothed margins, glabrous, or very slightly hairy, shining 
on both sides but most so below, deep-green above, the veins 
painted with broad black or ferruginous bands, paler beneath, 
painted red, and cuticle covered with minute pustules. Scape 
JULY Ist, 1861. 
