lary, peduncled, drooping, rather longer than the petioles 
and foliage, dichotomous, peduncles and pedicels flattened :. 
two obsolete, nearly opposite bracteas are on the middle of 
the female pedicel, but none on the male. Flowers pink, 
dipetalous, handsome, large, (female, one inch broad, by 
three quarters of an inch long; male, three quarters of an 
inch in either diameter,) males in the clefts of the cyme, 
and on the outside of its subdivisions; those in the clefts 
expand first, the others nearly at the same time with the 
corresponding females; petals in them subrotund; in the 
females more cordate ; in both, but especially the latter, 
subacuminate. Stamens numerous, filaments wedge-shaped 
at the top,.an anther-cell being fixed along each side. 
Capsule, wings rounded, subequal: Stigmata pale yellow, 
revolute, angled, pubescent along the edge. 
This species flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden Edin- 
burgh, in April, 1828, having been raised two years before 
from seed sent by Dr. Jounsronz, from Bombay. Like all 
the other species of Begonia, it requires the heat of the 
stove. GRAHAM. | + : 
