BEGONIAS. 
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BEGONIA DECORA. 
A shrubby decorative variety, with dark green obliquely lanceolate leaves, profusely marked with 
oblong spots or dots of a silvery-grey colour ; somewhat of the character of £, argyrostiyma, but with 
the spots more minute. It has been introduced from Brazil. 5s. 
BEGONIA GLOIRE DE SCEADX. 
A now hybrid winter-flowering bulbous variety raised between B. socotrana and B. mbpctala. 
The plant is most proliferous, the flowers being of a beautiful bright rose colour. The glabrous 
leaves are cordiform, and of a dark metallic green. Flowering as this does from the beginning of 
January to the end of April, it will be found a very desirable acquisition. 3s. 6d. 
BEGONIA HYBRIDA COCCINEA. 
A pretty and desirable hybrid variety, belonging to the winter-flowering section. It is of 
dwarf compact habit, bearing in the greatest profusion its beautiful bright scarlet flowers, making 
it admirably adapted for the decoration of greenhouses and conservatories during the dull winter 
months. 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
BEGONIA RUBELLA. 
A very ornamental Indian species, with stout decumbent stems ; the leaves are numerous and 
freely covered with deflexed red scales on a pallid ground, which gives to them a reddish appearance. 
The leaf blades are of a bronzy green with a broad pale green band down the principal costa, and 
smaller bauds of the same along the other main ribs, the whole dotted over with oblong blotches of 
purplish brown ; the under surface is red. 6s. 
BEGONIA SCEPTRA. 
This is a very handsome and distinct species, a native of Brazil. The leaves are obliquely ovate in 
outline, deeply lobed on one side, the lobes oblong obtuse, the veins sunk, and the raised spaces 
between marked with large silvery blotches, and numerous smaller dots of silvery grey. The leaf- 
stalks are red, this colour passing up the ribs of the imder surface. 7s. 6d. 
BEGONIA ALBO-PICTA, vide page 138. BEGONIA imperiaus, 3s. 6d. 
EQREOiA, vide page 9. Olbia, 3.s. 6rf. 
SMAKAOniXA, 3s. 6(f. 
The following are useful flowering species and varieties, and highly effective for 
decoration; the majority of them are winter-hlooming ; except those priced, 18s. and 
30s. per dozen. 
AEGYEOSTIGMA ELEGAN- 
TISSIMA 
ASCOTIENSIS 
BAEBATA VAEIEGATA 
CAEEIEEI 
VILIOSA 
INGEAMII 
KNOWSIEYAN.4 
LYNCHEANA 
MANICATA 
AUEEO-VAEIEGATA, 
'Is. Gd. 
MAEGAEIT.E 
METALLICA 
NITIDA 
ALBA 
EUBEO-VENIA 
EICHAEDSIANA 
EICHAEDSIANA VASTISSIMA 
SEMPEEFLOEENS ELEGANS, 
3s. Gd. 
GIGANTEA CAEMINEA 
EOSEA 
EOSEA 
SAUNDEESIANA 
SOCOTEANA, 3s. Gd. 
SUTHEELANDI 
VALIDA 
WELTONIENSIS. 
ECHEVERIAS. 
ECHEVEEIA ciBBtrLESOENS, 2s. Gd. 
onA.TJOO-i£ETAi,i.iOA, l.s. Gd. and 2s. Gd. 
OEAiroiSEPAnA, 2s. Gd. 
IMBBICATA, 2s. Gd. 
MUTABLLIS, 2s. Gd. 
OVATA, 2s. Gd. 
PBUINOSA, 2s. Gd. 
ECHEVEEIA retusa olauoa. Is. Gd. and 2s. Gd. 
BOSEO-PICTA, 5s. 
SOAPHTLLA, 2s. Gd. 
SCHEIDECBERI, Is. Gd. 
SEorrunA, 9d. each: 6s. per dozen. 
OLAUOA, 9d. each; 6s. per dozen. 
SPATHULATA, 2s. Gd. 
