| 232 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
B, PLATANIFOLIA (Plane-leaved). Stem erect, 5 to 6 feet. Leaves 
kidney-shaped, 8 or 10 inches across, bristly on both sides; acutely 
lobed and toothed. Flowers large, rosy white; June to September. 
Native of Brazil (1834). 
B. RAMENTACEA (chippy). Stem erect, branched, scaly. Leaves 
kidney-shaped, oblique, red and scaly beneath. Flowers pink and 
white, drooping; May. Native of Brazil (1839). 
Ornamental- B. AMABILIS (lovely). Stem short, fleshy, creeping. 
leaved Begonias. Teaves oval, 6 inches long, with rounded teeth, cottony 
dark green, blotched with white, underside purplish. Flowers white or 
rosy, in cymes; June to September. Native of Assam (1859). 
B. DEDALEA (variegated). Stem short, thick, fleshy. Leaves large, 
green; when young, covered with network of scarlet lines, turning 
russet as the leaf matures; edges velvety. Flowers white and rosy, in 
loose panicles. Native of Mexico (1860). 
B. Decora. A pretty little species with creeping rhizomes from 
which the leaves spring; these are 4 inches long, very hairy, and 
coloured yellow-green, bronzy red, and purple. Introduced in 1895 
- from Penang. 
B. DIPETALA (two-petaled). Rootstock fleshy. Stem erect, 1} foot 
high, brown. Leaves oblique, toothed ; green and white above, red 
beneath. Flowers large, with two pink petals, in loose cymes from the 
axils; May. Introduced from India (1828). ; : 
B. GOGOENSIS (native of Gogo, Sumatra). Leaves large, oblique, 
dark velvety green, with paler midrib and veins; deep red beneath. 
Flowers pink, in loose panicle. Introduced 1881. 
B. HERACLEIFOLIA (Heracleum-leaved), Rootstock fleshy. Leaves 
radical, palmately-lobed and toothed, on long velvety stalks; bronze- 
green, hairy. Flowers rose-coloured, in many-flowered cymes, on very 
long scapes; May. There are several varieties, differing chiefly in the 
colouring of the leaves. Native of Mexico (1831). : 
B. NELUMBIIFOLIA (Nelumbium-leaved). Rootstock fleshy, ereep™sg: 
Leaves large, roundish, 3 feet in circumference, hairy beneath, stalk in 
middle. Flowers small, white or rosy, in many-flowered cyme, oD tall 
Scape; winter. Native of Mexico. 
B. Ragan. A new introduction from Singapore. It has a fleshy 
rhizome and leaves 6 inches high, smooth, ovate-peltate, coloured aut 
green with large blotches of chocolate brown. A most useful plant tor 
the stove. 
B. REX (the king). Rootstock fleshy, creeping. Leaves lange, 
unequally heart-shaped, toothed, hairy; surface blistered, centre an 
