218 GKEENHOUSE PLANTS. 



with tuberous roots and annual stems, growing sometimes 

 two feet in height ; the leaves are light green in colour, 

 while the flowers, which are large, especially the males, are 

 pendulous, and of a bright shining vermilion red, and very 

 distinct from any other species in cultivation. Several of 

 the species from the cooler parts of South America have 

 tuberous roots, and lie down annually, therefore care must 

 be exercised with these during their period of rest. Native 

 of Bolivia. 



B. Brilliant. — This is a very dwarf robust-growing kind. 

 Flowers bright scarlet vermilion, very prolific, adapted either 

 for bedding purposes or pot culture. 



B. carminata. — This is a garden hybrid, with tuberous 

 roots ; the leaves are narrow, ovate-acuminate, dark green, 

 tinged with a bronzy hue, the flowers are large, most freely 

 produced, rosy salmon in colour. A handsome and profuse 

 bloomer. 



B. Chambersii. — A most interesting garden hybrid, pro- 

 duced between B. Feared and E. Sedenii, succeeding well in 

 a greenhouse during summer, and having tuberous roots ; 

 it retains to a great extent the markings of the first-named 

 parent, but the leaves are large and more oblique, flowers 

 very large, rosy salmon within, and pink without. It is a 

 profuse bloomer. 



B. Chelsoni. — A splendid acquisition to our winter-flower- 

 ing Begonias; it is a garden hybrid, the result of a cross 

 between B. Sedenii and B. Boliviensis. This plant is well 

 deserving a place in every collection ; it is of good habit 

 and very free in growth ; leaves oblique-ovate-lanceolate, 

 irregularly lobed and dark green. Flowers large, drooping, 

 bright shining orange, shaded with deep red. It continues 

 in bloom during the whole of the winter, and will be found 

 very useful far cutting. 



