on the Genus of Begonia. 163 
quadrilineari; duo interiora dimidio minora, ovato-oblonga, obtu- 
fiufcula. 
* Filamenta numerofiflima (100), receptaculo in conulum elevato 
inferta, brevia. Anthere ovatæ, erectz, lutez. 
€ Pifillum nullum. 
- © Floris feminei Peta/a quinque, colore ut in mare, figura exterio- 
rum maris: intimum reliquis minus. 
- © Stamina nulla. 
** Germen incarnatum. Styli tres, glabri." 
7. BEGONIA ferruginea, caulefcens, foliis inæqualiter cordatis den- 
tatis, floris mafculi petalis oblongis fubæqualibus *. 
Begonia ferruginea. Linn. Suppl. A19 (defcr. Mutis). Lamarck En- 
cycl. i. p. 395. n. Q. Zacqu. Collect. i. p. 128. n. i. 
Habitat in Nova Grenada. — of. Celeft. Mutis. 
In the Linnean Herbarium is a leaf and fome male flowers of 
this fpecies ; from which, together with the drawing of it by Dr. 
Mutis, Dr. Smith will give a figure in his next Fafciculus. 
It is eafily diftinguifhed from all other fpecies which I know; by 
the long and narrow petals of the male flowers, all of the fame 
' breadth, and very little differing in length. 
8. BEcoN1A grandis, caulefcens, foliis inæqualiter cordatis angulatis 
ferratis, capfula alis parum inæqualibus. 
Begonia obliqua. Thunb. Fapon. 231. defcr. Ic. Kempfer. tab. 20. 
Sjukaido. Kampf. Amen. 888. 
Habitat in Japonia. Engelb. Kempfer, Car. Petr. Thunberg. 
— The male flowers alone are defcribed by Dr. Thunberg, in his 
Flora Japonica; and by Kæmpfer, in his manufcripts preferved in 
* Smith Ic. 44. 
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