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BEGONIA PARVIFOLIA. SMALL-LEAVED 
Beconia ; or Elephant’s Ear. 
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Class and Order. 
Monaeecia Poryanpris. 
( Nat. Ord.—Beconiacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4, 
inequalibus. Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque 
inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilo- 
cularis, polysperma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Beconia parvifolia ; suffruticosa glabra, foliis ineequaliter 
cordatis Jobatis lobis acutis undulatis sparse serratis 
subglaucescentibus, fructibus trialatis. 
Beeonta parvifolia. Schott. Sprengel, Syst. Veget. c. p.v. 4. 
p. 408. Graham in Ed. Journ. of Sc. Dec., 1837. 
We received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, this 
species, with many other scarce plants, from the noble and 
always liberal establishment at Berlin, in 1836. It flowered 
profusely in the collection of Dr. Nerx at Canonmills, and 
at the Botanic Garden in May, and throughout the summer. 
The great and long-continued succession of flowers which 
it produces, and its neat foliage, render it a desirable spe- 
cies for cultivation. 
Descr. Whole plant glabrous. Stem suffruticose: branches 
red, transparent. Petvoles (one to two inches long) spread- 
ing, at length divaricated, channelled above. Leaves short- 
er than the petioles, oyate, unequally cordate at the base, 
delicate green above, pale and crystalline below, with pro- 
minent reddish veins, lobed; lobes subacute, distantly ser- _ 
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