C 3520 ) 
BrGoNIA sANGUINEA. Buioop-Rep 
Begonia. 
Class and Order. 
Monazcta Poxyanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Brcontacea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Mase. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala. Petala pleruin- 
que 4, inequalia. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9, _ 
plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra, 
alata, trilocularis, polysperma. i 
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Specific Character and synonyms, 
Beconia sanguinea ; caule ramoso, foliis inequaliter cor- 
datis acuminatis coriaceo-carnosis glaberrimis subtus 
sanguineis, margine crenulato revoluto, germinis alis 
__ tribus equalibus. - 
Beconia sanguinea. Radd. in Sprengel, Syst. Veget. ». 2. 
Pp. 625. Link et Otto, Icones Plant. Rarior. Hort. Reg. 
Bot. Berol. p. 25. t. 13. ” 4% di 
This plant, more remarkable for the colour and texture 
of its leaves than elegant in its form, was raised at the 
Botanic Garden of Berlin, from seed transmitted by M. 
Setto, from Brazil, in 1823, and communicated to the 
Botanic Garden in Edinburgh in 1832. It flowers in the 
stove in April. : : 
Descr. Stems several from the crown of the root, sub- 
ligneous, red, with scattered oblong paler spots. Leaves 
(four to six inches long, two and a half to three and a half 
inches broad) subpeltate, unequally cordate, acuminate, 
the apex soon withering, leathery-succulent, perfectly gla- 
brous and shining on both sides, green above, blood-red be- 
‘ ' low, 
