1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, 
Begonia—continued. 
B. albo-picta (white-painted). S. 
elliptic-lanceolate, glossy-green, freely spotted 
silvery-white. Brazil. 
B. Amelize (Amelia’s).*  f. bright rose-coloured, disposed in 
terminal, trichotomously-branched cymes. J/. obliquely cordate- 
ovate, crenulate, shining green. 1885. Habit robust, compact, 
and branching. A greenhouse, garden hybrid between 
B. Bruantii and B. Lynchiana. (R. H. 1885, p. 512, f. 89-90.) 
B. ascotiensis (Ascot). #1. bright dark red, disposed from six to 
twelve in acyme ; peduncle 33in. to4in. long. Summer. J. ovate, 
thick, shortly petiolate, smooth, very finely toothed. A. 2ft. to 
3ft. Origin unknown. 
B. Baumanni (Baumann's).* T. /. carmine-rose, 3in. to 4in. in 
diameter, agreeably scented; peduncles purplish, erect, leafless, 
lft. to 1sft. high, about five-flowered. /. few, reniform, dark 
green above, purplish beneath. Rootstock producing short, 
fleshy stems. 1890. ~An elegant, greenhouse species, with the 
habit of B. socotrana. (B. M. 7540.) 
B. Beddomei (Beddome’s).* T, jl. pale rose-coloured, cymose, 
the males lin. in diameter, the females smaller and darker ; 
scape shorter than the petioles, brown-scaly. December. 
i. radical, erect ; blade horizontal, 4in. to 6in. in diameter, mem- 
branous and pellucid, broadly and obliquely ovate-cordate or 
orbicular-cordate, obscurely lobed and denticulate, ciliolate, pale 
reen with white spots above, dull red-purple beneath ; petioles 
iairy, 4in. to 6in. long. Assam, 1883. (B. M. 6/67.) 
1. shortly stalked, small, 
with bright 
Fic. 166. SEEDLING TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIA. 
B. Bertini (Bertin’s).* TT. 1. reddish-scarlet, very large, less 
pendent, very numerous. Otherwise the plant resembles 
B. Worthiana. 1894. (R. H. 1894, p. 247, f. 93-94.) 
B. bicolor (two-coloured). . bright rose, disposed in a terminal 
raceme; peduncles one- to three-flowered. /. broad, obliquely 
reniform, green, spotted with white, the upper ones having 
bulbils in their axils. Mexico, 1891. A tall, erect-growing, 
greenhouse species. 
B. Bismarcki (Bismarck’s). fl. light satiny-rose, 1jin. across ; 
peas large, drooping, many-flowered. November and Decem- 
ver, JU. large, lobed, very acuminate, oblique, 6in. long. 1888. 
Garden variety. 
B. boliviensis sulphurea (sulphur-coloured). 
yellow, spreading, small but very pretty. 
1895. A pretty variety for pot-culture. 
B. Carrieri (Carritre’s).* This is said to he a hybrid between 
B. semperflorens and B. Schmidtiana. The flowers are nearly as 
large as those of B: semperflorens rosea, and are produced-much 
* more plentifully. 7. roundish-ovate, of a bright, cheerful green. 
Small plants appear to flower with great freedom. 1884. 
B. castanezefolia (Castanea-leaved). Asynonym of B. fruticosa. 
B. cinnabarina albo-vittata (white-striped). A garden 
variety having the petals striped with white. 1892. (I. H. 
xxxix. 165.) 
B. Clementinz (Princess Clementine’s). 7. large, deflexed, 
roundish-ovate, cordate at the base, the margin lobed; upper 
surface bronzy-green, irregularly banded greenish-white ; under- 
surface rose-coloured, with ribs of a darker hue. 1888. A hybrid, 
fl. sulphur- 
1, long*and velvety. 
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Begonia—continued. 
said to be raised between B. diadéma and B, Rex. 
vol. iii., p. 265; I. H. xxxv., t. 39.) 
B. compta (adorned). 7. of a satiny green, a silvery tinge running 
along the course of the midrib, obliquely ovate, angular. Brazil, 
1886, A pretty, greenhouse plant. 
B. coronata (crowned). A garden hybrid of which B. 
linewfolia is one of the parents. ; 
B. Credneri (Credner’s). A garden hybrid between B. Scharfi 
and B. incarnata metallica. 1890. (R. G. 1890, p. 562, f. 80.) 
Syn. B. Scharfi metallica. 
B. cyclophylla (round-leaved). T. /l. rose-coloured and rose- 
scented, disposed in a trichotomous cyme, the males lin. to 
ljin. in diameter; scape 6in. high, slender, glabrous. April. 
1. solitary; 6in. broad, orbicular-cordate, with overlapping basal 
lobes, obtuse or sub-acute, palmately seven- to nine-nervyed, 
obscurely denticulate ; petiole shorter than the blade. South 
China, 1885. (B. M. 6926.) 
B. Davisii superba (superb). A double-flowered variety. 
1881. 
(G. C. ser. iii., 
caro- 
B. decora (decorative). S. 7. dark green, profusely dotted with 
silvery-grey, something in the way of those of B. maculata, bus 
the spots more minute, obliquely lanceolate. Brazil, 1886. 
Stove. 
B. diadema (diadem).* 7. deeply digitate-lobed ; lobes irfegular, 
glossy, quite glabrous, light green, irregularly marked with 
white blotches ; under-surface with a red 
zone near the stalk. A handsome foliage 
plant. Borneo, 1883. (I. H. xxix. 446.) 
B. Duchartrei (Duchartre’s).* jl. white, 
2in. in diameter, the males with four 
Perales the females with five. Winter 
6in. to 12in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute at apex, dark green, with a dark 
reddish-violet midrib ; petioles 2in. long. 
h. 3ft. 1892. A vigorous hybrid between 
B. echinosepalaand B. Scharfi. (Gn. 1892, 
vi., p. 115; R. H. 1892, p. 29, f. 7.) 
B. egregia (notable).* jl. white, sin. 
across, many in a gracefully drooping, 
corymbose cyme Sin. to 4in. in diameter ; 
peduncle 2sin. to 3in. long. Winter. 
7. peltate, 8in. to llin. long, 24in. to 4in. 
broad, obliquely oblong, acuminate, ob- 
tusely rounded at the unequal base, 
hairy ; petioles 24in. to 3in. long. Stem 
z ecey below. hk. 3ft. to 4ft. Brazil, 
B. erecta cristata (crested). A very 
curious form, having the tips of the 
petals lamellate and_crested, imparting 
a cruciform appearafice to the inside of 
the flowers. (R. H. 1896, p. 61, f. 17.) 
B. Faureana (Felix Faure’s). /. ample, 
deeply cut into five to seven lobes, rather 
large, acute or sub-obtuse, of a tender 
green, zoned with white. Stem strong, 
arborescent, scaly. Tropics. SYN. B. pla- 
tanifolia, of gardens (1. H. 1889, p. 152, 
t. 34). 
B. F. metallica (metallic). A variety 
having metallic refiections on the leaves. 
1895. (I. H. 1895, t. 43.) 
“B. fruticosa (shrubby). jl. pink, small, sub-umbellate ; cymes 
often shorter than the leaves. February. J. ovate-oblong, 2in. 
to 3in. long, seven to nine lines broad, penninerved, shortly 
petiolate, obtuse or sub-acute at base, repandly serrate-toothed, 
glabrous, and, as well as the stipules and bracts, persistent. 
h. 3ft. Brazil, 1838. Syn. B. castaneefolia. 
B. f. alba (white). A large and robust variety, with white 
flowers. 
B. fulgens (brilliant). T. /#. rich red, fragrant, disposed in 
numerous racemes. J. green, roundish-oblique. Bolivia, 1893. 
Closely related to B. Davisit. 
B. glaucophylia (glaucous-leaved).* jl. pink, small ; male sepals 
two, broadly ovate, obtuse, petals two, much smaller, incurved ; 
female sepals four, broadly ovate, concave ; panicle ample, many- 
flowered, nodding or pendulous. /, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, the margins undulated. Stem elongated, pendulous, 
the branches white-spotted. Brazil. A capital basket plant. 
(B. M. 7219.) 
B. globosa (globose). 
p. 645, f. 143.) 
B. gracilis racemifiora 
decorative variety, of bush 
the type, and red stems. 1 
B. Haageana (Haage’s). A synonym of B. Scharfi. 
B. Hemsleyana (W. B. Hemsley’s).* T. jl. pale pink, darker 
towards the tips, few in a dichotomous cyme ; males ljin. across ; 
females rather larger; capsule three-winged. April onwards. 
1. erect, orbicular, 3in. to Sin. across, palmati-partite or almost 
A garden hybrid. 1888. (R. G. 1888, 
(racemose-flowered). A useful, 
habit, having darker flowers than 
