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NEW AND CHOICE BEGONIAS. 
BE»0N1A ALBO-BUBRA, 2s. U. \ BEOONIA DX70HARTREI, 2s. U. 
BEGONIA DIADEM. 
A beantiful variety, the upper surface of the leaves freckled and marbled -witb silvery white oa 
an olive ground, and the under part of a reddish crimson colour. 3s. 6ii. 
BEGONIA DISPLAY. 
Leaves handsomely marked, the upper surface mottled silvery, on an olive ground, and of a deep 
Oiimson underneath ; an exceedingly attractive variety. 3s. 
BEGONIA ERECTA CRAIGIANA. 
This fine variety produces its beautiful bright pink flowers most profusely during the winter 
months ; it has fine large dark reddish foliage, is of erect habit, and is exceedingly showy and 
attractive. 2s. 6rf. 
BEGONIA ERECTA MULTIFLORA. 
' A pretty erect-growing variety, with ornamental foliage, extremely floriferous, and rendered 
exceedingly useful and attractive by the delicious fragrance of its charming bright pink flowers, 
which are produced in the greatest profusion in mid-winter. It is somewhat similar to the 
preceding. 2s. 6d. 
BEGONIA FOLIOSA. 
This dwarf stove perennial, a native of New Grenada, has a pretty plumy habit of growth, 
occasioned by the distichous arrangement of the leaves. The flowers are small, pinkish white. 
The plants assume a pyramidal habit if a leading stem is carried up, but if stopped, they acquire a 
drooping character, and in that state no more elegant basket plant for the stove can be 
imagined. 2s. 6rf. 
BEGONIA HYBRIDA FLORIBUNDA. 
A charming hybrid tiomfuchsioidet and muhyiora ; it has very elegant and delicate foliage, and 
is a most abundant bloomer, continuing to produce throughout the winter its pretty bright rose 
flowers in the utmost prolusion. Is. 6d. 
BEGONIA FUCHSIOIDES, Is. Qd. | BEGONIA INGRAMII, Is. U. 
„ INSIGNIS, 2s. Gd. \ „ PARVIFLORA, Is. (,d. 
BEGONIA PEARCEI. 
Flowers large, bright yellow, and borne on slender stems well above the foliage. 2s. 6d, 
BEGONIA PEARCEI SUPERBA. 
This is a remarkably attractive and ornamental plant, the upper surface of its leaves being of a. 
very rich dark velvety green, sometimes almost black, very strikingly ribbed and veined with 
greenish white ; underneath they are of a reddish crimson colour. 
In addition to its beautifully coloured leaves, the plant produces large yellow flowers, which form 
an admirable contrast to the rich dark foliage. 2s. 
BEGONIA SAGITTATA. 
An erect smooth-stemmed species. The leaves have longish footstalks, and a blade having a 
somewhat arrow-shaped form, with a one-sided base, the margins indistinctly lobod, and serrate. 
The green upper surface is dotted closely over with small pearly spots, from each of which project 
a short blunt transparent seta. The rose pink two-petaled flowers grow in small dichotomous* 
axillary cymes. A native of South America. 2s. (jd. 
BEGONIA RICINIFOLIA MANICATA, BEGONIA SATJNDERSIANA, 2s. 6d. 
2s. 6d. 
„ SEMPERFIiORENS, Is. Gd. ,, SMABAGDINA, 2s. Gd. 
BEGONIA SEDENI. 
One of the finest hybrid flowering Begonias ever raised. It is equally as free in growth, and of 
the same upright habit, as B. bolivimsis, but with larger loaves, the veins of which are slightly tinted' 
with rose colour. The flowers are of the richest magenta, and of large size. The plant continues 
a long time in bloom. 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
