142 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
. Begonia—continwed. 
LAING’s FRINGED WHITE, a robust, floriferous variety, with 
the margin of the flowers beautifully fringed ; Miss MALCOLM- 
soN, very large, fine bushy habit; NELLY PRITCHARD, pure 
white, fine circular flower, of good habit, and wonderfully free ; 
SAMUEL Pops, white, slightly shaded with rose, large and 
excellent; SUNLIGHT, white, margined_ with faint pink, very 
large and of good form; Waite CAMELLIA, white, with 
greenish centre, of good, sturdy habit. 
Yellow- and Orange-flowered: COUNTESS BROWNLOW, rich 
yellow, very large, dwarf, and floriferous; GOLDEN HIND, 
yellow, large and excellent ; SiR WILFRID LAWSON, deep yellow, 
of fine form and sturdy habit. 
Double-flowered.—Crimson and Scarlet Shaded: B. R. Davis, 
rich crimson, very large, compact, and floriferous ; DR. NANSEN, 
intense crimson, free, and of fine form; H. J. INFIELD, scarlet, 
shaded with salmon, very free, and of good form; LorD 
CHELSEA, crimson-scarlet, one of the best ; LORD DUNRAVEN, 
crimson-scarlet, large, floriferous, and of good habit; Rey. G. T. 
LITTLE, fiery-crimson, of medium size, excellent. 
Rose-coloured ; DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH (see Fig. 167), light 
salmon-pink, fine form and erect habit; LUCERNE, salmon- 
rose, of fine substance; LADY MARY WOOD, salmon-rose, very 
large, one of the best; Miss THOMPSON, rosy-pink, dwarf and 
free; NuRSE Mary CORNELL, rosy-salmon, very double, com- 
pact and free; ROSETTE, carmine-rose, of good size and sub- 
stance, compact and free. 
White-flowered : BLANCHE DUuVAL, white, tinted blush, large 
and free; DIAMOND JUBILEE (see Fig. 168), creamy-white, dwarf 
bushy habit, very fine; LADY THEODORE GUEST, white, one of 
the finest, with bold erect habit; Miss EMILY CHILD, white, 
tinged with pink, very large, of good form and remarkably 
floriferous ; Miss GRIFFITHS (see Fig. 170), a lovely shade, its 
double flowers having crimped petals, of excellent habit; Mrs. 
PEREIRA (see Fig. 169), white, good form, large, and free. 
Fic. 170. BreGonta Miss GRIFFITHS. 
Yellow-flowered : MARCHIONESS OF SALISBURY, canary-yellow, 
large, free, and of bushy habit; Mrs. R. Curistian, soft 
yellow, large and very double, sturdy, and floriferous; QUEEN 
OF THE BEGONIAS, orange-yellow, of large size, great substance. 
and splendid habit. : 
BEHNIA (a commemorative name). Sywns. Dictyopsis, 
Hylonome. Orv. Iiliaceez. A monotypic genus. ithe 
species is a greenhouse climber, with the habit of 
Myrsiphyllum (which see for culture.) 
B. reticulata (not-veined). jl. greenish, jin. long, in simple or 
slightly compound cymes from the axils of the upper leaves. 
l. alternate, sessile, ovate, acute, rounded at base, 2in. to 3in. 
long, firm, green, glossy, with a distinct midrib, and five to 
seven strongly-marked vertical veins on each side, connected 
by close cross-veinlets (these have a beautiful effect when the 
leaves are dried). Stems glabrous, woody, terete, unarmed, 
copiously branched. South Africa, 1867. (B. M. 5638, under 
name of Dictyopsis Thunbergii.) 
BELAMCANDA CHINENSIS. The correct name 
of the plant described on p. 23, Vol. III., as Pardanthus 
chinensis (which see). - 
BELANTHERIA. A synonym of Brillantaisia 
(which see). | 
BELENIA. A synonym of Physochlaina (which 
see). 
BELIS. A synonym of Cunninghamia (which see). 
BELLARDIA (of Colla). A synonym of Microseris — 
(which see). 
BELLARDIA (of Schreber). « A synonym of 
Manettia (which see). ; 
BELLEISLE CRESS. Another name for American 
orLand Cress (Barbarea precox). See Cress (American). 
BELLENDENA (naméd in honour of J. Bellenden 
Ker, an English botanist). Orp. Proteacez, A monotypic 
genus. The species, B. montana, is a greenhouse shrub 
with small, densely racemose flowers and scattered leaves, 
native of Tasmania. It has been introduced, but is of 
no particular value from a garden standpoint. ; 
BELLEVALIA. To the species described on p. 179, 
Vol. I., the following should be added: 
B. Heldreichi (Heldreich’s). jl. of exactly the same colour as 
those of Scilla sibirica ; spikes long, produced in pairs from each 
bulb. 2. broad. Asia Minor, 1897. 
B. romana is a synonym of Hyacinthus romanus. « 4 
BELLFLOWER, GLAND. See Adenophora. 
BELLIDASTRUM or BELLIDIASTRUM. 
Included under Aster. See A. Bellidiastrum. 
BELLINIA. A synonym of Saracha (which see). 
BELLIS. This genus includes seven or eight species 
of annual or perennial herbs, natives of the Northern 
hemisphere. Flower-heads heterogamous, solitary, on 
leafless, often seape-like peduncles; -involuere hemi- 
spherical or broadly campanulate, the bracts sab-biseriate ; 
receptacle naked; achenes papulose or sparsely his- 
pidulous. Leaves radical or alternate, entire or sinuate- 
toothed. To the species described on pp. 179-80, Vol. L., 
the following should be added: 
B. integrifolia (entire-leaved). f.-heads about as large as 
those of the common Daisy; ray florets pale purple or white ; 
involucral bracts acuminate. March to June. J. entire, sparsely 
hairy and ciliated; radical and lower ones spathulate-obovate ; 
upper ones lanceolate or oblong, sessile. Stems 4in. to 12in. high. 
North America, 1801. (B. M. 3455.) 
BELLWORT. See Utricularia. 
BELONITES. A synonym of Pachypodium (which 
see). 
BELVALA. A synonym of Struthiola (which see). 
BELVISIA. A synonym of Napoleona (which see). 
BELVISIACEZ. - Included under Myrtacez (which 
see). 
BENCOMIA (named in honour of Bencomi, the 
last King of Teneriffe). Orp. Rosaceaw. A small genus 
(two species) of sparsely branched, greenhouse shrubs, 
natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Flowers 
dieecious, in long, axillary, pedunculate spikes; petals 
wanting. Leaves alternate, impari-pinnate; petioles 
elongated, sheathing at base; leaflets membranous, petio- 
lulate, oblong, toothed. The species, B. caudata and 
B. spinosa, will be found described under Poterium (from 
which this genus has been separated by Bentham and 
Hooker). 
BENGAL ROOT. See Zingiber Cassumunar. 
BENINCASA (named in honour of Count Benineasa, 
an Italian). ORD. Cucurbitaceey. A monotypic genus. 
The species is a large, stove, creeping, softly hairy annual, 
indigenous in tropical Asia, and cultivated for its edible 
fruits in tropical Africa and America. It is of no great 
