on the Genus of Begonia. t gg 
When this plant firt flowered in Mr. Lee's garden at Hammer- 
Ímith, in October laft year (1788), it was fuppofed to be annual, 
having produced flowers and fruits iu a few months from its being 
Íown. It was then very low, as appears from the annexed figure, 
reprefenting a whole plant; and, fuppofing it to be then at its full 
height, I gave it the trivial name of bumilis, in the Hortus Kew- 
enfis. But it has fince ftood over the winter, and grown much 
taller. 
13. BEcowiA hirfuta, caulefcens, foliis hifpidis femicordatis dupli- 
cato-ferratis, capfule ala maxima obtufangula; reliquis paral- 
lelis minimis. 
Begonia hirfuta. Aubl. Guian. 913, tab. 348. Lamarck Encycl. i. 
P- 303) n.3. Facgu. Collect. i. p. 129, n. 8 (exclufo fynonymo Plu- 
mieri). 
Habitat in Guianæ rupibus. Fufée Aublet. 
The fpecimen in-Sir Jofeph Banks's Herbarium from Aublet is 
without fruétification, fo that my knowledge of the fruit is only 
from Aublet's figure. But it muft be obferved that the figures in 
his work are made at Paris from dry fpecimens, as appears from the 
origina! drawings in Sir Jofeph Banks's library. In comparing them 
with the fpecimens in his own Herbarium, now in the poffeffion of 
Sir Jofeph Banks, I have feveral times had occafion to obferve that 
they are not very faithful; and, in the inftance of the two fpecies of 
“this genus figured there, the outline of the leaves is quite wrong: 
whence my fpecific differences, made from the fpecimens, will not be 
found to agree with his figures. 
14. BscowiA Urtice, cauleícens radicans, foliis utrinque hifpidis 
inæqualiter ovatis duplicato-ferratis, capfulis bafi tricor- 
nibus. 
Begonia 
