EEPOET ON VARIEGATED BEGONIAS. 



Series i. Argente^. 

 1. B. argentea. 



From Messrs. Kollisson & Sons, Mr. Veitch, and Messrs. 

 Low & Co. Leaves large, greenish gray, of a satiny texture, 

 looking as if silvered and polished ; they are speckled over with 

 fine pencilled zigzag markings of a deeper green, and veined with 

 light red behind. The stalks are purplish, shaggy with white 

 hairs. It is a very distinct sort, remarkably pallid in colour. 

 Series ii. Zonat^. 



§1. 



± B. Griffithii. 



From Messrs. Rollissox & Sons. Mr. Veitch, and Messrs. 

 E. G. Henderson & Son. This is a plant of dwarf habit, mth 

 medium sized leaves, which are downy on the surface, and have a 

 broad dark opaque green centre, exterior to which is a grayish or 

 silvery zone and a dark green border of nearly equal width ; the 

 green becomes rather paler where it joins the gray. The under 

 surface, opposite the green portions of the upper side, is red ; and 

 the stalks are pale, red-haired, and downy. This is a pretty, 

 distinct, small-growing kind, of second-rate value. 



3. B. argentea guttata. 



From Mr. Veitch, Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, and 

 Messrs. Rollisson & Sons. The leaves are of medium size, with 

 a broad dark green centre, which dark green colour passes along 

 the vems m a narrow broken line through the silvered zone, so 

 that It almost comes into the vittate series. The zone is of a 

 clear silvery gray, becoming narrower towards the base of the 

 "ned with a green border of about half its own 



width. The leaves, 

 marked on the under s 



parts which are 



opposite the green or darker parts of the upper surlace. ine 

 stalls are red and hairy. 



4. B. Madame Wagner. 



From Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, Messrs. Rollisson 

 Sons, and Mr. Veitch. This is a very bright-looking variety, 

 of moderate size. The leaves have a dark green centre, forming 

 a tapering-rayed star, which ia surrounded by a broad silvery zone, 



