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BEGONIA PLATANIFOLIA. PLANE-LEAVED 
BEGONIA. 
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Class and Order. 
MonaeciA PoLyANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Bzeon1ace2. ) 
Generic Character. 
_ Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4, 
inequalibus. 
_Fam. Cal. o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque inequa- 
libus. Styli tres, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilocularis, 
polysperma, 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Beeonta platanifolia ; fruticosa ; foliis subequaliter remi- 
formibus lobatis serrulato-denticulatis utrinque his- 
pidis subtus purpurascentibus, lobis acutis, stipulis 
ovatis acutis rigidis demum marcescentibus. 
Brecon platanifolia. Schott.—Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur. 
post. 407. 
* We received this large and handsome species at Edin- 
burgh from Berlin in 1834, but the plants did not grow 
vigorously, nor flower, till this year, when our increased 
accommodation at the Botanic Garden enabled us to give 
them greater stove heat. 5 
Descr. Stem erect, robust, of rapid growth, (in our 
specimens from two and a half to five and a half feet high,) 
round, joints slightly swollen and marked with a ring, from 
whence the stipules fell, slightly spotted, glabrous, showing 
little disposition to develop branches unless the top be 
injured. Leaves (eight to ten inches across their — 
diameter) alternate, petiolate, reniform, nearly equ gtr 
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