STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



covered with small white spots tinted with rose, are most effective ; the 

 under surface is rich carmine. 



BEGONIA FALCIFOLIA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5707. 



This lovely plant, introduced from Peru through Eichard Pearce, by 

 whom it was discovered, is a stove species with falcate-lanceolate leaves, 

 of a deep red-purple beneath, deep green-bronze on the upper surface, 

 and with numerous rose-pink flowers, in axillary panicles on the ends of 

 the branches. 



BEGONIA GOGOENSIS, N. E. Brown. 



N. B. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xviii. p. 71 ; PI. and Pom. 1882, p. 121. 



A native of Gogoe in Sumatra, discovered by Curtis, through whom it 

 was introduced. 



It is a very handsome ornamental-foliaged species with peltate leaves, 

 of a bronzy-metallic hue when young, changing to deep velvety-green when 

 mature and intersected by a paler midrib and delicate veins ; the under 

 surface deep red. 



BEGONIA x HEBACLEICOTYLE. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1895, p. 48. 



A hybrid raised at Chelsea from Begonia heracleifolia and B. hydrocoty- 

 lifolia, with bold attractive leaves 6 in. across, and large pyramidal panicles 

 of pale pink flowers, which open in the early spring. 



BEGONIA LINEATA, N. E. Brown. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xvii. p. 199. 



A pretty species, which dies down annually, with a tuberous rootstock, 

 and blackish-green leaves more or less covered with silvery spots, sent 

 home from Java by Curtis. 



BEGONIA x MAEGAEITACEA. 



Yeitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1895, p. 2, fig. p. 4. 



A hybrid foliage Begonia raised at Chelsea, with leaves of a deep 

 bronzy-green ground colour covered with irregular silver-rose spots and 

 blotches, and numerous short crimson hairs. The leaves, of the usual 

 oblique form, are toothed along the margin ; the under surface is of a 

 glossy vinous-red. 



BEGONIA PEAECEI, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5545 ; Veitcha' Catlg. of PI. 1866, fig. 5, col. pi. 

 This species was introduced from La Paz through Eichard Pearce. 

 The leaves are very beautiful, of a dark velvet-green above, dull red 



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