white-spotted leaves with fewer nerves and shorter male 
peduncles, and the latter in the fewer nerves, 2-flowered 
short male peduncles, and long petioles. 
Begonia attenuata has long been cultivated at Kew, where 
it was received from the Botanical Gardens of Berlin; it has 
also been sent to me for determination by Mr. Burbidge 
from the Manchester Botanic Gardens. It flowers freely in 
the month of March. 
Drscr. Rhizome as thick as the little finger, creeping, cylin- 
dric, clothed with root fibres and persistent stipules. Leaves 
tufted at the end of the rhizome, four to six inches long, 
sessile or petioled, oblanceolate, acuminate, margin serrulate 
and obscurely lobed, quite glabrous, concolorous, pale green, 
nerves oblique, seven to eight on each side, base obtuse or © 
acute; petiole naked or winged, the wings undulate. Sfi- 
pules broadly ovate, pectinate-ciliate. Scape of male flowers 
rather shorter than the leaves, slender, terete, erect, 
4—6-flowered ; bracts orbicular, concave, pectinate-ciliate. 
Male flowers half to three quarters inch in diameter, um- 
belled, pedicels a quarter of an inch long. Sepals two, 
orbicular-ovate, obtuse, white Anthers in a globose stipitate 
head, cuneate, obtuse. Female flowers sessile in the axils of 
the leaves. Ovary turbinate from an obtuse base, contracted 
above into a beak one-third of an inch long, trigonous, angles 
winged, wings obscurely toothed or lobed. Sepals three, 
nearly orbicular, white. Style short, arms three, with reni- 
form’ broad stigmas, the corners of which have twisted 
appendages. Placentas entire—J. D. H. 
Fig 1, Leaf: natural size; 2, stamens; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, ovary; 
6, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
