TAS, 7219. 
BEGONIA GLAavUcoPpHYLLA. 
Native country unknown. 
Nat. Ord. Begonracez. 
Genus Brconta, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 841.) 
Brconta (Gaerdtia) glaucophylla; glaberrima, caulibus elongatis pendulis 
ramosis albo-maculatis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 
marginibus undulatis penninerviis, basi rotundatis v. cordatis, supra late 
subtus pallide viridibus, paniculis effusis pedunculatis amplis multifloris 
nutantibus pendulisve, bracteis amplis ovatis floribusque magnis ete roseis ; 
fl. masc. sepalis 2 late ovatis obtusis, petalis 2 sepalis multo minoribus 
lineari-oblongis obtusis incurvis, staminibus numerosis toro parvo insertis, 
filamentis brevissimis liberis quam antheras lineari-obovatas apice 
retusas multoties brevioribus; fl. fem. sepalis 4 late ovatis obtusis con- 
cavis, styli ramis 3 brevibus, fasciis papillarum bis tortis cinctis, ovarii 
placentis 2-fidis segmentis extus solum ovuliferis, capsula late 3-alata, alis 
rotundatis roseis sepala equantibus, ala una ceteris multo majore. 
It is with hesitation that I propose the establishment as _ 
a species, of a Begonia ot which neither the fatherland nor 
the history is known; and which moreover may possibly 
be a hybrid. It seems however that so fine a plant as that 
known at Kew and long cultivated and widely distributed 
as B. glaucophylla should be represented by a good figure, 
such being the only means of insuring the recognition of a 
member of this enormous and difficult genus. That it 
belongs to the American section of the genus Gaerdtia, 
A.DC. (genus of Klotzsch), is I think certain, though 
differing from the character given in the Prodromus and 
by Klotzsch, in having only four sepals in the female flower, 
all others hitherto described having five. Two species of 
the section Gaerdtia are figured in this work. The one 
B. undulata, Plate 2723, with leaves a good deal like those 
of B. glaucophylla, but very small white flowers and narrow 
wings to the fruit ; the other, B. Kunthiana, Plate 5284, is 
totally different in habit and foliage, and has few large 
white flowers with obovate male petals. 
The nearest described ally of B. glaucophylla is probably 
B. maculata, Raddi, better known as B. argyrostigma, 
Fesruary lst, 1892. 
