Tas. 4855. 
BEGONIA vuropHy.ua. 
Caudate-leaved Begonia. 
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Nat. Ord. Brgontacrm.—Monecia PoLyanpRia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4172.) 
BrGontAa urophylia; acaulis ramosa, foliis amplis lato-cordatis inciso-dentatis 
apice caudato-acuminatis, venis flabellatis subtus setosulis, petiolis setosis 
setis mollibus deflexis, pedunculis radicalibus glabris, paniculis amplis valde 
ramosis repetitim di-trichotomis, floribus dipetalis, masculis petalis obovatis 
planis patentibus, foemineis petalis suborbicularibus valde concavis erecto- 
patentibus, fructu 3-alato, alis duabus brevibus, unica duplo majore rotun- 
dato-quadrangulari. 
Brconta urophylla. Hort. Belg. 
Under the above name we have received our present Begonia 
from the Belgian Gardens. It is certainly among the finest and 
handsomest of the genus; the leaves ample, and the flowers large 
and very numerous, in panicles, which are compoundly divided 
in a di- or trichotomous manner. We are scarcely in a condi- 
tion, with our limited knowledge of the numerous species (now 
unfortunately, too, hybridized by cultivators), to say what are its 
nearest allies. Indeed, it is extremely different from any we are 
acquainted with. The long caudex of the large leaf is very pecu- 
liar. There are few species better deserving @ place in a tropical 
stove. It flowers copiously in March. 
Descr. Our plant is stemless: the /eafstalks spring directly 
from the root, are succulent, terete, and sparsely beset with de- _ 
curved subulate soft bristles or setee. Leaves very large, a span 
and more long, broadly cordate, green, paler beneath, the margm 
inciso-dentate, the apex runs out into a long tail-like point. The : 
veins commencing from a conspicuous circular disc, at the base 
of the leaf, in the sinus, diverge in a flabellate manner, and are 
beneath beset with soft, white, pellucid, chaffy hairs on many 
of the nerves. Peduneles radical, terete, glabrous and smooth, 
green, tinged with red, bearing a large, spreading, yet lax, di- 
trichotomously divided panicle, with two sorts of flowers ;— 
JUNE Ist, 1855. 
