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high. Leaves pale green, orbicular or lanceolate, lobed, very- 

 succulent, variable in size. Peduncles axillary, bearing several 

 large rosy-red flowers ; males with two large roundish serrated 

 petals and two smaller inner ones ; females small, with a green 

 3- angled ovary. A common plant in some parts of Mexico. 

 It has various synonyms, and there are no less than seven 

 varieties of it named. It is a pretty plant for the greenhouse 

 when well grown. I have seen hybrids between it and the 

 common tuberous-rooted kinds. It is remarkable in its habit 

 of developing great numbers of small bulbilae in its leaf axils, 

 and even in the axils of the pedicels. Other names for it are 

 B. diversifolia and B. Martiana. B. bicolor of Sereno Watson 

 is apparently this plant. 



B. geranioides (Bot. Mag. t. 5583). — Introduced from Natal to 

 Kew in 1866. Eootstock tuberous. Leaves radical, reniform, 

 6 inches across, lobed and toothed, green, hairy ; leaf-stalks 8 inches 

 long. Peduncles erect, 6 inches to 12 inches long, reddish, hairy, 

 bearing a lax drooping panicle of flowers each 1^ inch across, 

 pure white with a button-like cluster of yellow anthers ; females 

 5-petalled, with a white 3-winged ovary. Planted in a border 

 in a sunny greenhouse this is a really charming Begonia, flower- 

 ing most profusely from the begimiing of October till the end of 

 November. 



B. glaucophylla [Bot. Mag. t. 7219). — Tins plant had been in 

 cultivation at least ten years in England prior to its being de- 

 scribed in the Botanical Magazine this year. It is probably 

 Brazilian. Stems long, drooping or creeping, perennial, bearing 

 short-stalked, ovate, wavy leaves 3 inches to 5 inches long, and 

 glaucous green. Flowers in compact axillary clusters, on short 

 peduncles, rose-red, variegated in bud ; males 1 inch across, with 

 two ovate and two linear petals ; females with four equal petals 

 and a large 3-winged ovary. A first-rate basket plant, flowering 

 freely all through the winter. It is also called B. glaucophylla 

 splendens, B. Limminghei, and Comte de Limminghe. 



B. gogoensis. — Introduced from Gogoe, in Sumatra, by Messrs. 

 J. Yeitch & Sons in 1882, and described by Mr. Brown in Gard. 

 Chron. 1882, July, p. 71. It has a short tuberous stem as in 

 B. Bex, reddish erect 4-angled petioles 6 inches long ; blades oval, 

 6 inches to 9 inches long, bullate, green with dark bronzy blotches, 

 the nerves paler, under side coloured deep red. Flowers small, 



