HORTUS VEITCHII 



traversed with pale green nerves beneath, an agreeable contrast to the 

 bright yellow flowers. 



The source of all the yellow-flowered forms, it entered largely into the 

 production of the summer-flowering tuberous varieties. 



BEGONIA EOS^FLOEA, Hook. /. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5680; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1869, p. 1, fig. ; La Belg. Hort. 1868, p. 153. 



This beautiful species, a native of the Bolivian Andes, closely resembles 

 Begonia Veitchii. 



It differs in the stouter red petioles and scapes, the broader, rounder 

 leaves, and more numerous flowers, pale red in colour as those of a Briar 

 Eose, and it flowered for the first time in July 1867. 



From light-flowered forms of this species the first white tuberous 

 Begonias were obtained, and these have steadily improved in quality for 

 many years. 



BEGONIA VEITCHII, Hook. f. 



Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 734, with woodcut; Bot. Mag. t. 5663; Veitchs' Catlg. 

 of PI. 1867, p. 11, fig. ; Fl. des Serres, 1877, p. 119. 



A superb species, due to Eichard Pearce, who discovered it near Cuzco 

 in Peru, at an elevation of from 10,000-12,000 ft. 



At the time of its introduction, this, the finest species then known, was 

 described in the Botanical Magazine. " Of all the species of Begonia 

 known, this is, I think, the finest. With the habit of Saxifraga ciliata, 

 immense flowers of a vivid vermilion cinnabar-red, that no colorist can 

 reproduce, it adds the novel feature of being hardy in certain parts of 

 England at any rate, if not in all." 



It flowered with us for the first time in the open air in 1866. 



BEETOLONIA PUBESCENS, Hort. Veitch. 



Gard. Chron. 1865, p. 485 (notice of exhibit) ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1886, p. 9. 

 This dwarf stove plant, the light green leaves with a very broad dark 

 chocolate band down the centre, was introduced from Ecuador through 

 Eichard Pearce, 



BOEONIA ELATIOE, Bartl 



Bot. Mag. t. 6285 ; The Garden, 1876, pi. xxxix. ; Fl. and Pom. 1877, p. 145, col. pi. 

 A charming hard-wooded greenhouse plant related to the older and 

 better-known Boronia megastigma, but differs in having numerous pretty, 

 small bell-shaped flowers of a bright rose-pink colour. 



BOUCHEA PSEUDOGEEVAO, Cham. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6221. 



Eaised from seed imported from Brazil and first flowered in 1874. The 



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