168 _Mr, Dryanpver’s Obfervations 
“Begonia Urticæ. Linn. Suppl. 420. defer. ana Encych i i. p- 394: 
"m. 8. ‘Facqu. Collect. i. p. 129, n. 7*. 
` Habitat in America. of. Celef. Mutis. — 
Dr. Smith will give a figure of this from a a fpecimen in 
the Linnean Herbarium. = LS : 
“15. Beconta candens; féanden$ radicans, “foliis ovato-fubrotundis 
obfoleté dentatis, capfule ala maxima obtufangula ; reliquis 
parallelis minimis. 
-Begonia fcandens. Swartz. Prodr. 86 c fynonymo: Plu- 
mieri). 
Begonia glabra. Aubl. Quis. 916, tab. 349. Lamarck Encycl. i. 
P- 394» n. 4. gacqu. Collect. i. p. 129, n. 5. 
Habitat in Guiana, Fufte Aublet: in Jamaica, Gul. Wright, Rog. 
Sbakefpear, Ol. Swartz. 
I have adopted Dr. Swartz’s trivial name in preference to Aublet’s, 
becaufe the leaves are not quite without hairs. . 
In Sir Jofeph Banks’s. Herbarium are re Specimens both from Guiana 
and Jamaica. 
16.: BEGONIA /uberofz, repens, folus inæqualiter cordatis angulatis 
dentatis, capfulæ alis parallelis. 
Begonia tuberofa. Lamarck Encycl.i. p. 393, n. 1. 
 Empetrum acetofum. Rumph. Amb. v. p.457, tab. 160, fig. 2. 
: Habitat in faxofis infularum Amboinæ, Moluccæ, et Celebes. Ge. 
Ever. Rumphius. 
I know this plant only from Rumphius’s figure and defcription. 
Chevalier Lamarck has joined it with the Begonia capenfis of Lin- 
nzus's Supplement; but the capfules of that fpecies have only two 
winged corners, one wing being very large: and there is every rea- 
* Begonia urticæfolia. Smith Ic. 48. 
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