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BI-XiONIA 



BEGONIA 



useful plant for growing in baskets, thriving and flower- 

 ing freely in a sunny position in a cool airy greenhouse. 

 Intro, to Kew in 1790. B.M. 4025. B.R. 364. 



75. albo-picta, Hort. Shrubby, compact growth, 

 freely branched: Ivs. elliptical, lanceolate, covered with 



t. 



522. Begonia Scharffiana. No. 89. 



numerous small silvery white spots: fls. greenish white, 

 males with 2 broad and 2 narrow petals, females of 5 

 subequal petals. Brazil. An elegant foliage plant, 

 especially in the young state. Intro, by Bull in 1885. 



BB. Plants law-growing, diffuse. 



76. Schmidtiana, Regel (B. Schmidlii, Hort.). Her- 

 baceous or half-shrubby, slender-branched, 1 ft. or less 

 in height, the branches red-tinned: Ivs. 



lobed, toothed, hairy, about 2 in. long, 

 reddish beneath: fls. white, tinted with 

 rose. Brazil. R.H. 1883, pp. 56-7. Gn. 

 17, pp. 268-9. A very useful plant for 

 summer bedding. Named for Mr. Schmidt, 

 of the firm of Haage & Schmidt, Erfurt. 

 Var. rosea, Hort., has rose-red fls. 



BBS. Plants stiff, succulent, white-scurfy. 



77. peltate, Hassk. (B. Hdsskarlii, Zoll.). 

 Upright: st. perennial: Ivs. peltate, ovate- 

 acuminate, very thick and succulent, 

 covered with a whitish tomentum, 6-9 in. 



Jong: fls. small, white, on long peduncles. Brazil. It 

 is the only begonia in cult, with thick, felted, peltate, 

 silvery Ivs. 



78. venosa, Skan. A tall, stout, erect species with 

 white-frosted very fleshy foliage, and marked by very 

 large inflated conspicuously veined stipules: Ivs. reni- 

 form or ear-shaped, repand-entire, joined at the middle 

 (hot peltate) with the thick flattened petiole: fls. many, 

 white, crowded on a reddish peduncle. Brazil. B.M. 

 7657. Very distinct, and a striking plant when well 

 grown. Requires a warm sunny position in the green- 

 house, and to be kept rather on the dry side at the roots 

 during whiter. 



BBBB. Plants mostly loll and erect, distinctly shrubby. 

 c. Lvs. compound or nearly so. 



79. luxurians, Scheidw. Sts. and If.-stalks hairy, the 

 If .-stalks reddish: pointed membraneous stipules at the 

 younger nodes: Ivs. peltately compound, the 7-17 Ifts. 

 lanceolate (3-6 in. long and 1 in. broad), serrate, 

 under surface glabrous and green, upper surface with 

 stiff short hairs and red: fls. small, cream-color, in a 



compound long-stalked cluster. S. Amer. G.C. HI. 

 51:28. Thrives in an intermediate temp. 



80. Hemsleyana, Hook. Slightly hairy: habit dense, 

 free-branching: sts. erect, red, hairy: Ivs. digitate 6-12^ 

 parted, the parts or Ifts. lanceolate or elliptic, slightly 

 curved, serrate undulate, rich shining green above, dull 

 greenish red beneath; petiole long, red: sts. and petioles 

 covered with soft-tomentose hairs: infl. slender, few-fld.' 

 fls. pink, large, 1-1 % in. diam. Yunnan, S. China! 

 B.M. 7685. One of the hardiest species. 



81. platanifdlia, Hort. (Schott?). St. shrubby, 

 smooth, 5-6 ft. high, erect, robust, smooth, green, 

 joints annulated: Ivs. 8-10 in. across, reniform, lobed 

 half way down, hispid on both sides, dark green, lobes 

 acute, toothed, ciliated: fls. in axillary dichotomous 

 cymes, large, white, tinted rose. Brazil. B.M. 3591. 

 B. gunneraef&lia, Lind. (B. Washingtoniana, Hort.), 

 is very similar to this, but its lys. are not so deeply 

 lobed and the fls. are very insignificant. I.H. 22:212. 

 Runs into many forms. See B. Fa.ureo.na in supplemen- 

 tary list, p. 484. 



82. digitate, Raddi (B. palmata, Hort.). St. short, 

 gouty: Ivs. palmate, 10-12-parted, somewhat pubes- 

 cent, green above, brownish beneath: fls. white, in 

 dense clusters. Brazil. A species of little decorative 

 value. 



83. caroliniaefdlia, Regel. St. erect, thick, fleshy: IVB. 

 palmately divided into 6-8 long ovate segms": fls. 

 small, pink, on long peduncles. Mex. Gt. 1:258. 

 Named for its Ivs. resembling those of the Carolinea 

 (Pachira). The Ifts. are ovate, rather than narrow as in 

 most begonias with divided or compound Ivs., and in 

 this regard peculiar. 



84. diadema, Lind. Sts. short and fleshy, 2 ft. high: 

 Ivs. many, maple-like, deeply parted, bright green 

 blotched with white, dentate: fls. insignificant, pink. 

 Borneo. I.H. 29:446. Attractive for its conspicuously 

 marked foliage. 



cc. Lvs. not compound. 



D. Whole plant hairy. 



E. Foliage light green, and plant pubescent. 



85. vitifdlia, Schott, not Lindl. (B. 

 grdndis, Otto. B. reniformis, Hook.). 

 Tall, strong species, 3-4 ft. high: 

 Ivs. large and grape-like (Vitis 

 vinifera), orbicular or reniform, 

 lobed and serrate, soft-pubescent, 

 green above and rusty veined 

 beneath, the petiole flat or can- 

 aliculate on top: fls. small, white, 



slightly downy, winter. Brazil. 



B.M. 3225. 



86. Engleri, Gilg. (B. Eng- 

 leriana,Hort.). Striking species 

 with mostly a single st.: con- 

 spicuously red -strigose- hairy 

 and scaly, becoming 5 ft. tall: 

 Ivs. large and showy, thin, 

 oblique and 

 ovate-oblong, 

 deeply and 

 evenly serrate, 

 hairy, red - rib- 

 bed: fls. on long 

 pendulous pe- 

 duncles, numer- 

 ous, pink. E. 

 Trop. Afr. Di*- 

 t i n c t , and 

 worthy of atten- 

 tion on acrount 



523. Begonia Haageana. Showing a very of its handsome 

 small cluster ( X !i). No. 91. hairy Ivs. 





