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irregular star ; tlie zone of silver grey is vandyked on both edges, 

 and is nearly twice as broad as the green margin, which is blotched 

 and spotted with grey. 



Hegma. — Like Auiabilis, but larger ; very distinct, and altogether 

 a gem. 



Madame Wagner. — Of moderate size ; dark green centre ; form- 

 ing a tapering-rayed star, which is surrounded with a broad silvery 

 zone, and a narrow broken green edge ; a most beautiful variety. 



IRe,i!. — The parent of most of the varieties of the zonate section ; 



and though surpassed by a few of its progeny, it is still a grand 



plant, and indispensable wherever begonias are grown. The leaves 



. are large ; deep green in the centre, surrounded by a vandyked zone 



of silvery grey. 



Bex Leopardina resembles Madame Allwardt ; it is exquisitely 

 beautiful, but not indispensable. 



Queen (f England. — One of the few that surpass Rex. The leaves 

 are large and boldly marked ; reddish olive-green centre, the colour 

 breaking out into broadish rays ; beyond this is a silvery-grey zone, 

 margin dark green, dotted with bright silver, and covered with 

 reddish hairs. 



Nehulosa. — Leaves greyish green ; centre a dull reddish-green, 

 forming a star ; border of dull green dotted with greyish-green ; the 

 whole of the upper surface is suifused with red, very distinct and 

 beautiful. 



liollisonii. — Leaves large, dark satiny green, with small central 

 star of deep red-stained green ; border of medium width of the same 

 purple-tinged deep green, marked with a few satiny-green spots ; 

 fine and distinct. 



Itoyleana. — Below medium size ; leaves glossy above, downy 

 beneath, deep olive-green in the centre, with zone of bright green, 

 and on the outside a narrow broken border of olive-green ; a first- 

 class sort and matches with Griffithii. 



Roi Leopold. — This is distinct in many respects ; it has a tall, 

 erect red stem, and large leaves supported by red stalks, which are 

 shaggy with red hairs. The mature leaves are marked with a reddish 

 central star margined with red ; they are also red beneath. The 

 young leaves are so closely beset with red hairs that they have the 

 appearance of rich crimson velvet ; there is nothing in cultivation 

 to beat this variety. 



SELECT TITTATE BEGONIAS. 



Yittata. — Leaves dark velvety green; the spaces between the 

 veins marked with narrow, elongated bars of silvery grey, the mark- 

 ings being broken at the edges ; the under surface red. 



JLanthina Meichenheiinli. — Leaves medium size, red beneath ; 

 veins bordered with green, and the spaces between them form radia- 

 ting bars of silvery green, breaking into dots at the edge ; one of 

 the best. 



Splendida argentea. — Leaves large, greyish, sufi"used with dull 

 red, having bright green narrow lines radiating from the base along 

 the course of the veins j distinct and showy. 



