230 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
4 feet high, with large red-tinted leaves on red, hairy stalks, and bearing 
in autumn and winter very large heads of white and red flowers. One 
of the best. Brazil. 
B. NATALENSIS (Natal). Stem succulent, 18 inches high, branched. 
Leaves oblique, lobed, toothed, white spotted. Flowers pale rose, in 
axillary cymes; winter. Native of South Africa (1855). 
B. OCTOPETALA (eight-petaled). Stemless. Leaves heart-shaped, 
deeply-lobed and saw-toothed, with downy leaf-stalks three times the 
length of leaves. Flowers greenish white, males with eight petals, in 
corymbs; August to October. Native of Peru (1835). 
B. Pearcer (Pearce’s). Stem branching, 18 inches high. Leaves 
narrow-heart-shaped. Flowers large, bright yellow, in axillary panicles ; 
June to September. _ 
B. picra (painted). Stem succulent, 6 to 12 inches high. Leaves 
slightly oblique, heart-shaped, saw-toothed, sometimes variegated. 
Flowers large, pale rose, on hairy, erect, few-flowered footstalks; 
August to October. Native of Himalaya (1870). 
B. rex. See under Ornamental-leaved Begonias. 
B, RICHARDSONIANA (Richardson’s), Stem fleshy, branched, 1 foot 
high. Leaves palmate; lobes with wavy or toothed margins. Flowers 
white; males with two petals, females with five; in few-flowered 
axillary cymes; June to September. Native of Natal (1871). 
B. ROSEFLORA (Rose-flowered). Stemless. Leaves kidney-shaped, 
margins lobed and toothed, red; leaf-stalks, flower-stalks, stipules, and 
bracts bright red. Flowers 2 inches across, bright rose-red; June to 
September. 
B. socorraNa (Socotra). Rootstock a cluster of pea-shaped buds. 
Stems annual, 1 foot high ; leaves orbicular, much wrinkled, shining, with 
central stalks ; flowers in erect panicles, bright rose-pink, very persistent, 
produced in winter. Introduced from Socotra in 1880. One of the 
parents of a most useful race of winter-flowering hybrids, of which 
John Heal, Winter Gem, and Adonis are now popular. It has also been 
crossed with B. rex and several other species. 
B. Vertcutt (Veitch’s). Stem short, fleshy. Leaves round-heart- 
shaped, lobed and cut, margins fringed; junction of nerves marked by 
patch of bright carmine. Flowers large, cinnabar-red, in couples on 
tall, thick seapes; June to September. 
Shrubby B. ACERIFOLIA (Maple-leaved). Stem succulent, tall. 
Begonias. Leaves lobed and saw-toothed. Flowers smail, white, im 
branching cymes; male flowers hairy; May. Native of Quito (1829). 
B. CINNABARINA (cinnabar). Stem short, erect. Leaves oblique 
