radiating from near the base, also with the midrib and the principal 

 nerves again giving off alternate ascending smaller branches, bronzy 

 green on the upper surface when unfolding, becoming green with a 

 shining metallic lustre, more or less red beneath ; petioles terete, 

 succulent, pale in the young state, 

 becoming reddish, coarsely hairy with 

 jointed hairs ; stipules ovate or deltoid, 

 acute or aristate, entire or more or less 

 dentate. 



No. 1. Cordate, obtuse, entire, 

 deeply auricled at the base, more or 

 less oblique or unequal-sided. 



No. 2. Rotund-cordate, more or less 

 oblique, deeply auricled at the base, 

 five- to seven-nerved, shallowly crenate. 



No. 3. Broadly and obliquely cor- 

 date, obtuse, deeply auricled at the 

 base, crenate, about eight-nerved 

 three on one side of midrib and four 

 on the other. 



No. 4. Similar, but much larger, 



more elongated with the principal nerves branched, or sometimes 

 having three nerves on one side and five on the other. 



No. 5. Similar to the last but more decidedly oblique, and more 

 elongated at the apex where it becomes much narrower. 



FIG. 892. Begonia villosa, x 4. 



FIG. 



!. Begonia modesta. Nat. size, 



Begonia modesta, Liebm. (fig. 398). 

 Primary root fibrous, very short. 



