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BEGONIA CINNABARmA. 
Exeter. It was also shortly afterwards obtained by Messrs. Henderson, Pine-Apple 
Place, London, with whom it flowered in October, 1842, when our drawing was made. 
It has a neat climbjng habit, is a remarkably free flowerer, and of easy cultivation in 
a warm stove, requiring only the common treatment of other stove plants. The flowers 
are not very showy, but the rosy tinge renders them pretty, and being produced during 
the winter months, when few flowers are to be had, they are rendered valuable. 
An examination of the annexed engraving will more effectually explain the manner 
and peculiarities of inflorescence, &c., than a longer verbal description. 
It is increased by cuttings of the half-ripened wood planted in pots of a mixture of 
sand and heath soil, and placed in a strong moist heat. 
Linnaeus founded the name of this genus on the variable medicinal properties with 
which different species are gifted. It is compounded of two Greek words — Cleros, noble, 
and dendron, a tree. 
BEGONIA CINNABARINA. (Cinnabar-coloured Begonia.) 
Class, MoNCEciA. Order, Polyandria. Nat. Order, Begoniack^e (Begoniads, Veg. Kingd.) 
Generic Character. — Male Flowers. — Calyx wanting. 
Corolla polypetalous ; petals commonly four, unequal. 
Female ¥i.owe^s.— Calyx wanting. Corolla with from four 
to nine petals, generally unequal. Styles three, hiM. Capsule 
triquetrous, winged, three-celled, many-seeded. 
Specific Character.— P^a«i a perennial. Leaves large, 
palmated, serrated, oblique at the base. Stipules oblong, 
I cuspidate, keeled. 3Iale Flowers with four petals; two 
roundish and large , two oblong and small. Female Flowers 
with the petals nearly equal. Racemes produced from the 
axils of the leaves. Peduncles long. Stamens yellow. 
Authorities and Synonymes.— Begonia, Linn. Begonia 
cinnabarina, Sir W. Hooker. Begonia aurantiaca, Mag. 
vol XV., p. 215. 
This new and very handsome species of Begonia is a native of Bolivia, in South America, 
whence it was lately introduced by Messrs. Henderson & Co., Pine Apple Place, London. 
The fine palmate foliage of a rich shining green, with reddish veins, and the large bright 
orange-red flowers, contribute to render the plant when in bloom a noble object, and one 
likely to become a great favourite with cultivators. 
