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BEGONIA HERACLEIFOLIA. COW-PARSNEP- 
LEAVED BEGONIA. 
SKK KEK KEKE EEK KEE EEEK 
Class and Order. 
Monaeci1A PoLyAnpRiA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Becontacea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala. Pet. plerumque 4, 
inequalia. Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque 
inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, tri- 
locularis, polysperma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Beconta heracleifolia ; acaulis, foliis subequalibus cordatis 
pilosis profunde palmatis, lobis 7 lanceolatis acutis 
incisis serratisque, petiolis scapisque elongatis patenti- 
hispidis, corollis dipetalis, fructu trialato, alis rotun- 
datis obtusis, altera maxima. 
Brecon heracleifolia. Schlecht. et Cham. in Linnea, v. 5. 
p. 603. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1668. . 
Beconra heracleifolia. Grah. in N. Phil. Journ. July, 
1833. 
Our plate represents a small flowering specimen, with 
male flowers only, of this fine and handsome plant from a 
drawing kindly made by Mr. Macnas at the Edinburgh Bo- 
tanic Garden, to which we have added a panicle with both 
male and female flowers, and nearly perfect fruit, from a 
noble plant in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
where it flowers in the greatest perfection, in Apriland May. 
The species is a native of Mexico, having been detected by 
Messrs. Scutepe and Depre in Xalapa, and first described by 
the learned authors above quoted in the Linnea. Through 
Mr. Orro of Berlin, it has been introduced to our collections. 
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