Tas. 5284. 
BEGONIA Kunruiana. 
‘Professor Kunth’s Begonia. 
Nat. Ord. Breconrace®.—Mone@cta PoOLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.) 
Beconra Kunthiana ; fruticosa, erecta, glabra, caule succulento, foliis breviter 
petiolatis inzequilatero-lanceolatis oblongis acuminatis grosse dentatis, basi 
dimidiato-rotundatis levissime cordatis, supra saturate viridibus nitidis, 
subtus purpurascentibus, pedunculis axillaribus 2—3-floris, floribus magnis 
candidis, petalis florum masculorum exterioribus subrotundato-ovatis acuti- 
usculis, interioribus multo minoribus obovato-spathulatis, apice rotundatis, 
petalis florum fcemineorum 5 minoribus inzequalibus obovatis, ovarii trialati 
albidi alis rotundatis una paulo latiore. Waip. 
Brconra Kunthiana. Walp. Annal. Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 650. 
Beeonra lucida. Kth. e¢ Bouch. Ind. Sm. in Hort. Berol. 1858; Coll. p. 16. 
nr. 30 (not of Otto and Dietr.). 
Garrpt1a Kunthiana. K/. in Walp. Annal. Bot. Syst. v. 4. p. 892. 
The Begonias are eminently beautiful, both in flower and in 
the leaf; the latter, especially, exhibit a richness and variety of 
colouring unequalled in almost any other genus of plants; and 
many new varieties of foliage are obtained by skilful management, 
which are now reckoned among the most charming of plants for 
stove cultivation, or, in summer, for a warm greenhouse. ‘The 
genus is most extensive, and comparatively little known, except 
from garden specimens, and these chiefly natives of South Ame- 
rica; for though natives of tropical and subtropical countries 
generally, cultivators have found it more easy to procure living 
plants from the Western world than from any other parts of the 
globe. The Berlin Garden has been long celebrated for its ex- 
tensive collections; and this circumstance, perhaps, led to the 
late Dr. Klotzsch publishing numerous figures, and a revision 
and new arrangement of all the species known to him, in his 
valuable ‘ Begoniaceen-Gattungen und Arten,’ with a great num- 
ber of excellent illustrative plates. Of his forty new genera, 
many of them, doubtless, insufficiently characterized, M. Al- 
DECEMBER l|sT, 1861. 
