Hefuginm Botaniciun.] 
ySeptettiher, 187G. 
TAB. 222. 
Natural Order Begoniace.e. 
Genus Begonia, Linn. 
Section Lepsia, A.D.C. 
B. FOLiosA [H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Amer. p. 183, t. 642). Fruticosa, 
ramosissima, glabra, ramis gracilibus angulatis, stipulis scariosis 
persistentibus ovatis vel lanceolatis aristatis, foliis coufertis sub- 
sessilibus glaberrimis supra nitidis viridibus subtus albido-punctatis 
insequilateraliter ovato- vel obovatodanceolatis argute aristato-ser- 
ratis, interdum leviter trilobatis, pedunculis gracilibus axillaribus 
1 — 4-floris, bracteis oppositis lanceolatis scariosis, bracteolis lanceo- 
latis scariosis ad ovarium adpressis, sepalis 4 interioribus plerisque 
minoribus, capsulee alis valde iuagqualibus, majore capsula latiore 
margine superiore truncate. — A. B.C. in B.C. Frodr. xv. 375. 
A native of Columbia. 
Stems fruticose, copiously paniculately branched ; the branches 
angular, very slender, quite glabrous like the rest of the plant. 
Stijmles scariose, persistent, two to three lines long, ovate or 
lanceolate, unequal-sided, aristate. Leaves crowded, moderately 
fleshy in texture, quite glabrous on both sides, bright shining 
green above, thicklj^ covered all over beneath with minute white 
spots, very nearly sessile, ovate- or obovate -lanceolate, more or 
less unequal-sided, six to nine lines long, sometimes shallowly 
three-lobed, the margin furnished with short aristate teeth, prin- 
cipally in the upper half. Floiuers one to four on slender axillary 
peduncles, which are under an inch long below the fork, or, if 
simple, below the opposite scariose lanceolate persistent bracts. 
Petals four, white, the outer pair generally the largest, ovate- 
lanceolate, four lines deep. Female fioivers with a pair of 
caducous scariose lanceolate bracteoles adpressed to the ovary. 
Wings of the capsule very unequal, coriaceous, reticulated, the 
largest three to four lines broad, with the upper edge nearly 
straight, the lower oblique. 
Tab. 222. — 1, female flower complete ; 2, horizontal section of ovary ; 
3, male flower ; 4, a single stamen : all magnified. — J. G. B. 
I have no Begonia, among a very large number of species 
which I cultivate, with the same gracefully pendent habit as the 
species now figiu'ed. The flowers are insignificant, but the plant, 
