172 Mz. DRYANDER’s Obfervations 
'This comes very near to the B. malabarica, fo far as one can 
judge from the rude figure of Father Kamel *. 
3. In a volume of drawings in Sir Jofeph Banks's library, made 
at Canton by a Chinefe, who had been inftruéted by the late Mr. 
Blake in the art of making botanical drawings, 1s a figure of a Be- 
gonia, under the name of 7/ou Hoy Tong, which is related to 
grandis, but differs in the leaves not being angulated, and the mar- 
gin being equally ferrated. As only male flowers are reprefented 
in the drawing, it is impoffible to determine itt. 
4. Begonia repens, caulibus repentibus ad nodos radicofis, foliis 
uniauritis, pedunculis axillaribus longis multifloris. "Lamarck 
Encycl. i. p. 394, n. 5. 
Begonia obliqua y. Sp. P/. 1498. 
Begonia rofeo flore, folio aurito minor et hirfuta. pe Infi. 660. 
Plum. Cat. Pl. Amer. 20, ic. 34, tab. 45, fig. 2. 
Chevalier Lamarck defcribes this with white flowers, which, ac- 
cording to Plumier’s name, fhould be pink. He adds as a variety 
B. rofeo flore, folio aurito minor et glabra; and adds, ic. 45, f. 3: but 
that figure belongs to B. rofeo flore, foliis acutioribus, auritis et 
laté crenatis. 
5. Begonia rofeo flore, folio aurito minor et glabra. Tourn. Inft. 
660. Plum. Cai. PI. Amer. 20. 
Begonia obliqua g. Sp. PI ses (exclufo fynonymo iconum 
Plumieri). : 
^ I have before. poken of the uncertainty of Pra fi gens referred to 
: B. nitida by Jacquin and Swaen 
© * In this manner he figns his name to his letters to Petiver, preferved in the Britifh 
Mufeum, Sloan. MSS. 4081. The plant named from him ought therefore to be called 
Kamelia inftead of Gamellia. 
+ Tfieou-hai-tang. Mem. fur les Chinois par les Miffionnaires de Pé-Kiny iii, p.443. 
Autumnal Hai-tang. Grofier Defer. of China, i. p. 503. 
6. Be- 
