Tas. 4483. 
BEGONIA cINNABARINA. 
Cinnabar-flowered Elephant’s Ear. 
Nat. Ord. BeGontace®,—Mone@cta PoLyanpRria. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.) 
BEGoNIA cinnabarina ; puberula, caule elongato tereti folioso, foliis breviusculo- 
et crasso-petiolatis amplis oblique ovatis sinuato-lobatis duplicato-serratis, 
pedunculis elongatis rubris, floribus inter majores totis pedicellisque cinna- — 
barinis, masc. 4- foem. 5-sepalis obovatis, capsulis subgloboso-triquetris, alis 
2 subobsoletis tertia longiuscule producta. 
For this extremely handsome species of Begonia we are in- 
debted to Messrs. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, who raised 
it from seeds sent by Mr. Bridges from Bolivia. The contrast 
between the green stem and darker green leaves, with the 
deep bright red of the long and stout peduncles and stipules, 
together with the red or rather deep large cinnabar-coloured 
flowers, is very striking, and renders this, I think I may say, the 
most desirable of all the species for cultivation : add to which, 
it blooms very freely in an ordinary stove (I suspect it would do 
so in a greenhouse) and continues long in flower. : 
Descr. Stem erect, but zigzag, stout, terete, succulent, pale 
green, slightly downy, as are the leaves and petioles. Leaves 
on rather short, stout, terete, green petioles, from four to six 
or seven inches long, obliquely ovate, subplicate (the young ones 
very plicate and edged with red) sinuate or lobed at the margin 
and doubly serrated, the minute teeth red. Stipules ovate, 
‘membranaceous, acuminate, red. Peduncles a span and more 
long, rather stout, terete, deep and bright red, bearing a panicle 
(in our specimen) of six large handsome flowers, which, as well 
as the ovaries and pedicels and ovate racts, are rather pale-red 
or deep cinnamon colour. The ultimate pedice/s are ternate, 
— drooping, of which the central flower is male, the lateral ones 
female. MJale fl. Petals four, broadly obovate, spreading. Séa- 
DECEMBER lst, 1849. 
