296 FloricuUwal and Botanical Notices, 



narily rapid growth, quickly reaching to the top of any lofty tree 

 within their neighbourhood ; which, if unchecked, they soon, by 

 their luxuriance, completely overrun. Flowers in pedunculated 

 globular heads, produced from the axils of the leaves, in the ter- 

 minal portion of the branches. The heads of flower-buds are 

 of a dark dull red colour, becoming yellower as the filaments 

 expand. The heads of flowers are scentless ; but singular and 

 handsome, from the strong contrast between the pale yellow of 

 the bundles of stamens and the dark dull mulberry red of the 

 intervening calyxes. {Bot. Mag., May.) 



CXXII. GeranidcecE. May 18. 1835. — In Messrs. Dennis 

 and Co.'s collection of pelargoniums, some of the earliest-flower- 

 ing kinds are now in bloom ; and some selected specimens of 

 them are most splendid ; the most notable of the kinds are the 

 following : — Dennis's Perfection and Duchess of Sutherland. 

 These two exquisite varieties are rather in one mode as to 

 foUage, umbels of flowers, and shape of blossom, which is bell- 

 shaped ; the petals touching, so as to leave little or no vacancy 

 between them : some have compared the flowers to those of an 

 auricula, and the umbel to a truss of them. — Lord Denman : 

 rich dark crimson, with large blackish spots. — Hexicoxiidnum : 

 somewhat the colour of the last, with larger flowers ; the spots 

 on the upper petals not so large. — Augustissimum superbum : 

 a new variety from France. — Adelina : bright rosy red ; blooms 

 very abundantly ; habit graceful. — Belvidere : a fine bright red, 

 with peculiai'ly bright crimson spots- — Banquo : fine red, with 

 large very dark spots. — Amelia : a light pink, with rose- 

 coloured spots ; flowers very large. — Rosinante : a full-coloured 

 rose, with crimson-veined spots. — New Duchess of Clarence : 

 the delicacy of the white of the petals, and the crimson of the 

 spots, in contrast, render this a very pleasing variety. — Me- 

 dea, a pale rose with large spots. — Habranthum, abounding 

 in its magnificent blossoms. — ■ y^ e\\!]\ed?iiim : this is called a 

 crimson purple, and has a robust habit. — Fulminans : dark 

 red ; flowers large and numerous. — Black Prince : crimson 

 purple, with very dark spots ; lower petals narrow. — Statira, 

 Captain Cook, Margaretta, Incarnatum, and Don Quixote: 

 these are also varieties of high interest among the early-flower- 

 ing ones. In the general collection there is prospect of a copious 

 and continued flowering from the present time through June to 

 August or September. — J. D. 



CLVII. Begoniaceae. 



2654. BEGO^N7.i. 



Tpetalbdes Lindl. petaled tt [23 or 1? ap Ro.W Brazil? 1832? C l.t Bot, reg. 1757 



A caulescent species, of not large proportions ; leaves orbi- 

 cular, cupped, of 5 to 9 lobes, incised and serrate. Flowers few 

 in a cyme, and the cymes seated on long peduncles. In the 



