Tas. 4746. 
BEGONIA BISsERRATA. 
Doubly-serrated Begonia. 
Nat. Ord. BecontacE®.—Monecria POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4172.) 
Brconta biserrata; erecta laxa, tota villis albis mollibus sparsis pilosa, foliis 
sublonge petiolatis oblique late palmato-lobatis subcordatis lobis 4-5 inze- 
qualibus inciso-serratis ciliatis, paniculis dichotomis axillaribus termina- 
libusque, floribus nutantibus masculis tetrasepalis femineis 5—6-sepalis 
interioribus triplo minoribus, sepalis omnibus cordatis inciso- tolliter 
ciliato-serratis, fructu 3-alato grosse pilis albis echinato, alis brevibus ob- 
tusis grosse ciliatis unica vix duplo majore. 
Brconra biserrata. Lindl. Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 2. p. 313. Walp. Ann. Bot. 
Syst. v. 3. p. 892. 
Among an interesting collection of Begonias lately presented 
to us by William Wilson Saunders, Esq., is the present very 
well-marked species, said to have been discovered in Guatemala, 
by G. U. Skinner, Esq. Like all other Begonias, 1t requires to 
be frequently increased by cuttings, and then we are more sure 
of good flowering specimens. It blossoms with us, in the stove, 
in the summer months, and makes a very handsome appearance. 
Dzscr. Two to nearly three feet high, lax, yet capable of sup- 
porting itself. Stem terete, villous, as is every part of the plant, 
except the inside of the flowers, with soft white scattered hairs. 
Leaves alternate, on rather long petioles, broadly but obliquely 
cordate, palmato-lobate, lobes about five, but unequal, and 
subinciso-serrate, ciliated ; lower ones sometimes almost a span 
broad, the upper ones gradually smaller: all submembranaceous, 
soft pale yellowish-green. Panicles cymose, I : 
leaves, axillary and terminal, dichotomously divided, bracteate 
with small ovato-lanceolate dracts at the setting on of the 
branches. Male flowers large, rose-coloured and white. Sepals 
NOVEMBER lst, 1853. 
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