ip Cn eS a na. et 
( 3532 ) 
Beconia Fiscueri. Dr. Fiscuer’s 
BEGONIA. 
KEKE KKK KEE KEKE EE EEE 
Class and Order. 
Monaecia PoLyAnpDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Breon1Acez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Mase. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque 
4, inequalibus. 
Fam. Calyxo. Corolla petalis 4—9, plerumque ine- 
qualibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilo- 
cularis, polysperma. 
Specific Character. 
Beconta Fischeri; caulescens, foliis oblongis acutis inequa- 
liter cordatis dentato-serratis utrinque glabris nitidis, 
stipulis ovatis integerrimis, floribus masculis 4-petalis, 
petalis exterioribus rotundatis concavis marginibus 
plano-revolutis, floribus femineis 6 - petalis petalis 
ovato-lanceolatis, alis germinis inequaliter rotundatis. 
Brecon Fischeri. Otto, MSS. 
This plant, which has small flowers, but exquisitely 
beautiful foliage, was received at the Botanic Garden, 
Edinburgh from Berlin, in 1835, and flowered in the stove 
in February and March, 1836. 
Descr. Stem erect, branched, fleshy, swollen at the 
joints, red, shining. Leaves unequally cordate, acute, in- 
distinctly sinuated, slightly undulate, unequally dentato- 
serrate, glabrous on both sides, when young bright red 
behind, paler at the veins, and pink above, with a peculiar 
silvery lustre which continues on the old leaves, the colour 
being then beautifully delicate yellowish green, and the 
redness behind much less considerable; petioles nearly 
round, 
