on the Genus of Begonia. 165 
Begonia. purs et nivea maxima, folio aurito. Plum, Ic. 34, tab. 
45 fpe 
Habitat in fe Indic Quanta Car. Plumier, “ob. Ryan, 
. Henr. de Ponthieu, Alex. Anderfon. 
This fpecies is both in Sir Jofeph Banks’s and the younger Lin- 
nzus's Herbarium. A fpecimen in the former Herbarium has, in the 
axilla of the lower leaf, a panicula confifting entirely of female 
flowers; and, from the axilla of the leaf above, a panicula of male 
flowers. TE 
10. Beconra acutifolia, caulefcens, foliis. femicordatis angulatis den- 
tatis, capfula ala maxima obtufangula ; reliquis acutangulis. 
Begonia acutifolia. Yacqu. Collet. i. p. 128, n. 4 (exclufo fyno- 
nymo Plumieri). 
Aceris fructu herba anomala, fibre. tetrapetalo albo. Sloan, Fam. 
tab. 127, fig. Jo. 2. 
Habitat in Jamaica. Hans Sloane, eee Mafon. 
Sir Hans Sloane’s defcription, in his Hiftory, vol. i. p. 199, agrees 
fo ill with his figure and. his fpecimens in the Britifh Mufeum 
(Hortus Siccus, vol. iii. fol. 121), which I have compared \ with the 
fpecimens i in Sir Jofeph Banks’s Herbarium, that I am rather in- 
clined to believe, that he, confounding feveral {pecies, has defcribed 
one and. figured another. The leaves are longer and narrower than 
he defcribes them, and not at all rough; having fo very few 
hairs; that they might be called fmooth. The fpecimens I have feen 
have no appearance of being from a creeping plant ; they are all in 
fruit, and have no flowers. 
This fpecies comes very near to the following, but differs in the 
{moothnefs already mentioned, and in having longer footftalks, the. 
length of one third or. one fourth. of the leaf; which, on the con-- 
trary, are fo fhort in B. acuminata, as not to equal the angle of the 
leaf, which extends beyond the infertion of the footftalk. | 
II. BE- 
