Tas. 4683. 
BEGONIA xanTHINA. 
Yellow-flowered Begonia, or Elephant’s Ear. 
Nat. Ord. Becontacem.—Monecia PoLyanpria. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.) 
BEGonta zanthina; acaulis, rhizomate brevi crasso subtus radicante, foliis am- 
plis oblique cordato-ovatis brevi-acuminatis sinuatis denticulatis subtus dis- 
coloribus (rubris), petiolis aggregatis crassis folium subsequantibus rubris 
stipulatis crinitis, setis patentibus inferioribus reflexis, scapo petiolis duplo 
longioribus, floribus nutantibus corymbosis flavis, masculis tetrasepalis, 
sepalis 3 oblongo-cuneatis unico majore rotundato magis coneavo, foemineis 
3-plo minoribus hexasepalis, sepalis eequalibus ovali-rotundatis, fructus alis 
duabus brevibus, unica horizontaliter elongata striata. 
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A very beautiful new Begonia, cultivated by Mr. Nuttall in 
his stove at Rainhill, near Preston, Lincolnshire, where it was 
raised from roots sent in 1850, from Boutan, by his nephew, 
Mr. Booth. It is remarkable for the large, full, almost golden- 
yellow flowers, tinged with red at the back, which contrast well | 
with the ample foliage of a deep glossy green above, and with the 
fine red of the petioles, peduncles (shaggy, with scale-like hairs), 
and underside of the leaf. It flowered in July, 1852. 
Descr. Root a short, thick, horizontal, fleshy rhizoma, shaggy 
with scaly hairs at the settg on of the petioles, and bearing 
fibrous radicles below. Stem none. Leaves ample, six inches 
to a span or more long, obliquely (inequilaterally) cordato- 
ovate, shortly acuminated, more or Jess sinuated, the margin 
denticulated, subciliate, penninerved and reticulately veined, of 
a deep full glossy green and glabrous above, beneath red, with 
the nerves st Bea the chief ones and costa hispid. Petioles 
thick, fleshy, terete, bright red, about a span long, clustered from 
the apex of the rhizoma, and there having large, ovate, submem- 
are crinite, with 
branaceous, coloured s¢ipules ; their peduncles 
_ NOVEMBER Ist, 1852. 
