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ECHEVERIA GRACILLIMA CRIST ATA. V. D. II. 
Leaves white, long, with the edges tinted red. 
ECHEVERIA HERBACA. V. T>. H. 
Plant of low growth; leaves of a dark green color; flower a golden yellow, 
flushed red, and borne on short steins. 
ECHEVERIA MUCRONATA GLAUCA. V. D. H. 
Plant of the habit of the well known variety, E. Mucronata ; leaves blue-green, 
edged with carmine-red. 
ECHEVERIA PULCHELLA. V. D. H. 
Plant a rank grower, rosette shaped ; leaves broad, of a whitish color with rose 
colored points scattered over its surface; flowers yellow, borne on stalks from forty 
to fifty centimeters high. 
ECHEVERIA VIOI.ACEA. V. D. H. 
Plants of medium size; leaves of a blue green color; flowers red and yellow, very 
showy and handsome, and produced on a stem from thirty to forty centimeters high. 
BEGOjYIA DISCOLOR-REX. Bruant. 
S NE year ago (April, 1879,) we published in the Botanical Index M. Bruant’s 
description of his new hybrid Begonia, — Discolar Rex. Now we have the 
privilege of describing the balance of the set produced by M. Bruant and his 
very successful propagator, M. Svahn. The plants, without doubt, will prove 
of great value for house culture, combining as they do in the same plant a 
flowering and foliage specimen. The descriptions are those accompanying 
the plants : 
BEGONIA MADEMOISELLE MARGUERITE SVAHN. 
Plant bushy, with fine foliage, leaden gray, leaf veins deep green, underside red- 
dish-purple, wholly purple in the open air like the magnificent variety “ Madame 
Svahn.” 
BEGONIA L. B. CASE. 
Plant very vigorous, forming rapidly a fine bush, appearance and vegetation of 
the “ Discolor;” beautiful foliage of silver gray, deeply tinted with rose, the young 
leaves entirely a vivid rose, the adult leaves passing to deep purple, leaf veins deep 
bronze green, early to flower; a superb variety. 
BEGONIA PRESIDENT H. BALARESQUE. 
Vigorous and magnificent plant, of a very beautiful appearance, leaf large, dark 
bronze green spotted with points of silver gray, rose tinted, spotted with rose in the 
open air, under side dark purple, a new design. Flowers very large clear rose, bud 
vivid rose, very early to flower. 
BEGONIA COMTESSE LOUISE DE KERGOLAY. 
Of very remarkable growth, plants large, bushy, leaves very large, resembling 
some of the foliage varieties, silvery white, reflecting a metallic brilliancy, leaf veins 
deep green. Flowers large, of a pretty rose-salmon color, very beautiful variety for 
growing in pots. 
BEGONIA MADEMOISELLE ALPHONSINE DE LA RUE. 
Plant spreading, well bushed, of rapid growth, leaf longish, of tender green all 
dotted with white, disclosing only the design (or pattern) of the leaf veins; flower 
vivid rose, abundant; variety very hardy, for open ground and of rapid increase. 
The remainder of the set are : 
Madame Svahn. A. Carriere. 
Souvenir de Dr. Weddell. W. E. Gumbleton. 
Edouard Andre. Comtesse Gabrielle de Clermont-Tounerre. 
Lucienne Bruant. Marquerite Bruant. 
M. Bruant has still more varieties that will be offered to the public in due course 
of time. 
