drooping before and after expansion, especially the female. 
Male Flower of four spreading petals, two large, roundish- 
cordate, hispid, with short, red hairs at the back, two inner 
ones obovate. Female of five petals, three outer ones 
rotundato-ovate, hispid at the back, two inner smaller, and 
obovate. Germen inferior, turbinate, downy, with three 
wings, one large and two smaller ones, each dilated upwards 
into an obtuse angle. Stamens, Style, and Pista as in most 
of the Genus. 
Neither my own figure in Exotic Flora, nor that of 
Loppiees in the Botanical Cabinet, does justice to the 
beauty of this plant, and the size of its flowers. This is 
often the case with plants that are figured when they first 
bloom after their introduction to this country; afterwards 
they become stronger, and flower in much greater per- 
fection. 
B. picta was first figured by Sir James E. Smiru in the 
Exotic Botany, It is a native of Nepal; but probably of 
the warmer parts: for it seems to flourish best with the heat 
of our stoves, in which situation, the plant from which our 
figure and description were taken flowered in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, and in the month of September, 1829. 
