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*BEG6nIA heracleifolia. 



Parsnip-leaved Begonia. 



MONiECIA POLYaNDRIA. 



Nat. ord. BegoniacevE, Juss. {^Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 169.) 



BEGONIA. Supra, vol. 4,foL 284. 



C. heracleifolia ; acaulis, foliis subsequalibus ambitu orbicularibus cordatis pro- 

 funde septein-lobatis lanceolatis incequaliter sinuato-sublobatis denticulatisque 

 ciliatis utrinque rariter sparsim pilosis supra planis obscuris subtus pallidis 

 vesiculiferis : nervis prominulls fuscescentibus hirtellis, petiolo pedunculoque 

 patentim hirsutis. De Schleckt et Chamiss. in Linnceu, vol. 5, p. 603. 



B. radiata. Graham in Edinb. New Phil. Journal for July, 1833. 



Ffuctus trialaius, glaher ; alis rotundatis, duahus nanis herbaceis, 

 altera rosea elongata ascendente. 



A native of Mexico, where it was met with by the Ger- 

 man ti'avellers Schiede and Deppe, in several localities. In 

 the Linnaea three are mentioned, namely, shady places in 

 Jalapa, in March ; near Hacienda de la Lagiina in Sep- 

 tember ; Baranca de Tioselo in October. It is therefore 

 probable that it flowers nearly all the year round in its own 

 country as it does in England. 



The plant from which our drawing v^'as taken was re- 

 ceived by the Horticultural Society from the Botanic 

 Garden, Berlin. It is a very free growing hot-house plant, 

 producing its rosy flowers in every month of the year ; all 

 that it demands at the hand of the cultivator is heat, moisture 

 and a full exposure to light. If kept too much in the shade, 

 the flowers lose the bright rosy tint which is natural to them, 

 and with it their beauty. 



Our learned friend. Dr. Graham, who obligingly pointed 

 out to us the identity of his B. radiata with B. heracleifolia, 

 thus describes it: — "Leaves (seven inches across) bright 



♦ See folio 1252. 



