AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICULTURE. 



Begonia continued. 



crenate, dark green above, red below, and minutely papillose. 

 jL on an elongated terminal raceme, white. Capsule three- 

 angled, two wingless, the other with a long pointed wing. Sum- 

 mer. Brazil, 1826. A distinct and pretty species. (B. JL 3564.) 

 Synonymous with 



B. Morltziana (Moritz's). 

 B. tcandent. 



B. natalenais (Katal). 

 fleshy. Stem lift nig 

 the base, articulate, 



T. Rootstock thick, 

 succulent, thick at 

 ' ' smooth. L 



unequal, semicordate, acuminate, lobed, 

 toothed, spotted with white. JL on axillary 

 cymose peduncles, pale rose. Jr. three- winged, 

 two large, one small. Winter. Natal, 1855. 

 (B. M. 4841.) 



B. nelumbiifolia (Nelumbium - leaved). 

 Rhizome thick, fleshy, creeping. L on long 

 hairy petioles ; blade 12in. to 18in. long, 8in. 

 to 12to. wide, peltate, hairy on under side ; 

 scape 1ft to 2ft. high. JL to cymose head, 

 numerous, small, white or rose coloured. 

 Winter. Mexico. A noble-foliaged plant. 

 SYN. B. hernandiatfilia. 



B. nemophlla. Synonymous with B. Cath- 

 eartii. 



B. nlgro-venla (black-veined). Synonymous 

 with B. glandulota. 



B. nitdda (shining).* S. Stem 4ft to 5ft. 

 high, erect, branched, woody when aged, 

 smooth, shining. I. large, glossy, green on 

 both sides, obliquely ovate, acute, crenated 

 at margin. Jl. fa terminal and axillary pani- 

 cles, numerous, large, deep rose, handsome. 

 Capsule three-winged, one much larger than 

 others. Jamaica, 1777. One of the best winter, 

 and almost a perpetual, flowering species. 



B. obllqua (oblique* 

 nitida. 



Synonymous with B. 



B. ootopetala (cight-petaled).* T. Stem- 

 less. L on long succulent downy petioles, 

 lift, or more in length, cordate. 6in. long, 

 deeply lobed and serrated at the margin, 

 bright green ; scape as long as petioles, 

 rounded, downy. JL to corymbs, greenish- 

 white. males with eight petals, females gene- 

 rally fewer. Capsule three-angled, two wings 

 almost suppressed, the other lin. long ; apex 

 blunt toothed. Autumn. Peru, 1835. SYN. 

 B. grandiflora. (B. M. 3559.) 



B. opnllflora (Guelder-rose-flowered).* S. 



oblong-acuminate, toothed, smooth above, 



hairy below. JL white, to compact umbels, 



on erect scapes. Spring. New Grenada, 



1854. 

 B. Ottonlan (Otton's). A hybrid from B. 



eont.hafolia and B. eoriaeea. (R. Q. 1859, 



p. 16.) 



B. papillosa (papillose). A variety of /:. inearnata. 

 B. Pearoel (Pearce'sX* T. Stem 1ft high, succulent, branching. 



I. lance-shaped, cordate, pointed, toothed, glabrous above, tomen- 



toee beneath, and pale red. JL to loose axillary panicles, 



large, bright yellow. Summer. Bolivia, 1865. Interesting 



because of its being one of the progenitors of the handsome race 



of garden tuberous Begonias. 



B. peltata (shield-like). Stem short, tomentose ; leaves 6in. by 

 4in., peltate, ovate, densely pilose. JL to branching cyme, small, 

 white ; peduncle 6in. to 9to., pilose. Brazil, 1815. Interesting 

 because of its distinctly peltate foliage and silvery appearance of 

 whole plant SY.NS. B. eoriacea, B. Ilasskarlii, B. htrnandict/olia, 

 B. peltifolia. 



B. peltifolia (peltate-leaved). Synonymous with B. peltata. 



B. phyllomanlaca (proliferous-stemmed). S. ' Stem thick, fleshy, 

 rather twisted, green, hairy, clothed, when old, with small vivi- 

 parous buds bearing small leaves, by which means the plant may 

 be multiplied. I. ovate, acuminate, cordate, sinuately lobed, 

 ciliate, smooth above and below. JL to axillary cymes, drooping, 

 le rose. Capsule with one large wing. Winter. Guatemala, 

 61. (B. M. 5254.) 



B. piota (ornamented).* T. Stem generally smooth, succulent, 

 6in. to 12in. high. I. ovate acuminate, nearly equally cordate, 

 serrated, hairy above and on the nerves below, sometimes varie- 

 gated. JL pale rose, large, handsome; peduncle hairy, erect 

 short, few-flowered. Autumn. Himalaya, 1870. (S. E. B. 



B. platanlfolia U> lane-leaved).* S. Stem 5ft to 6ft high, 

 erect, robust smooth, green ; joints annulated. I Sin. to lOto. to 



pale 

 1861. 



FIG. 232. BEGONIA POLYPKTALA. 



B. polypetala (inany-petaled). Stem about 1ft high, covered 

 with a soft whitish tomentum. I. ovate-acute, toothed, pubes- 

 cent above, and densely tomentose below. JL, petals nine or ten, 

 of a flue red colour, smooth, external ones ovate-oblong, pointed ; 

 internal ones somewhat shorter and narrower ; sepals two, ovate- 

 elliptic. Capsule tomentose, three-winged, with one wing larger, 

 ascendent Winter. Andes of Peru, 1878. See Fig. 232. (Garden, 

 Dec. 14, 1878.) 



B. prestoniensls (Preston).* A garden hybrid between B. 

 dnnabarina and B. nitida. L green, lobed, glabrous. JL brilliant 

 orange-red, in drooping axillary cymes, very fragrant Autumn 

 and winter. 1867. (G. M. B. 3, 149.) 



B. prismatocarpa (prism-fruited).* Stems small, creeping, 

 hairy ; branchlets ascending. L long, petioled, also hairy, obliquely 

 cordate, ovate, three to flve-lobed ; lobes pointed, serrated ; pe- 

 duncles axillary, longer than foliage, bearing a small umbel of two 

 to four dipetalous orange and yellow flowers, one female in each 

 umbel. Capsule four-angled, scarcely winged. Summer. Tropical 

 West Africa, 1861. The smallest of cultivated Begonias, and espe- 

 dally interesting because of its four-angled fruit It forms a 

 pretty cushion of bright shining green foliage, thickly studded 

 with its brightly coloured flowers. Requires a stove temperature 

 and a stony soil. (B. M. 5307.) 



B. pruinata (frosted).* Stem short, thick, fleshy, smooth. L 

 large, peltate, ovate, angular-sinuate, minutely-toothed ; surface 

 smooth, glaucous ; margins pilose, on stout, fleshy petioles. JL to 

 large dense dichotomons. or small cymes, white. Winter. Gen- 

 tral America, 1870. (R, B. 247.) 



B. pnlchra (fair). Synonymous with B. nitida. 



B. punctata (dotted). A variety of B. heracle\f<*M. 



