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BEGONIAS. 
BEGONIA EGREGIA. 
A handsome and free gi’owing new species, of very distinctive character. . The leaves, which are 
produced on stout stems, are peltate, closely toothed along the margins ; they are bright green in 
colour, and remarkable for their rough papillate hairy siuface. The flowers are pure white, freely 
produced in large drooping corymbose cymes at the ends of the branches. It has been introduced 
from Brazil, and, being whiter flowering, forms a desirable addition to oui' Stoves. 3s. &d. 
BEGONIA GLOIRE DE SCEAUX. 
A new hybrid winter-flowering bulbous variety raised between S. socotrana and S. mhpctala. 
The plant is most proliferous, the flowers being of a beautiful bright rose colour. The glabrous 
leaves are oordiform, 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 veiy desirable acquisition. 3s. &d. 
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 bronzj'-green with a broad pale green band down the principal costa, and 
smaller bands of the same along the other main ribs, the whole dotted over with oblong blotches of 
puiplish-brown ; the under surface is red. 5s. 
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 under sur-face. 5s. 
EEGOHIA Ai.no -piCTA, vide -page 143. 
AEOENTEO OUTTATA, 7s. 6<f. 
Clementinas, 5s. 
COMPTA, vide i>age 142 
BEGONIA iMPERiALis, 3s. 6rf. 
LuCIANiE, 5s. 
Olbia, 3s. 6d. 
SMAEAOniNA, 3s. 6d. 
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. 
LYNCHEANA 
MANICATA 
AUKEO-VARIEGATA 
AKGYBOSTIGMA ELEGAN- 
TISSIMA 
ASCOTIENSIS 
BARBATA VARIEGATA 
CARRIER! 
VILLOSA 
INGRAMII 
FUCHSIOIDES 
KNOWSLEYANA 
kargarita: 
METALLICA 
NITIDA 
AIBA 
SEMFERFLORENS ELEGANS 
GIGANTEA CARMINEA 
SEMFERFLORENS GIGANTEA 
ROSEA 
MADAME DELEUIL,3s.6c; 
ROSEA 
SAUNDERSIANA 
SOCOTRANA, 3s. 6d. 
SUTHERLAND! 
VALIDA 
WELTONIENSIS 
ECHEVERIAS. 
ECHEVERIA OajEULESOENS, 2s. 6(f. 
OLA.UOO-METALLICA, Is. 6d. and 2s. Gd. 
OEANniSEPALA, 2s. Gd. 
IMBEIOATA, 2s. Gd. 
MUTABILIS, 2S. Gd. 
OVATA, 2s. Gd. 
PEOTNOSA, 2s. Gd. 
ECHEVERIA eetusa olauca. Is. 6d. and 2s. Gd. 
EOSEO-PIOTA, 5s. 
SOAPHYLLA, 2s. Gd. 
ScHEIDECKEEI, Is. Gd. 
BECUNDA, 9d. each; 6s. per dozen. 
OLAiroA, Gd. each; 6s. per dozen. 
SPATHULATA, 2s. Gd. 
