

Refugium Botanicum.] [June, 1873. 
TAB. 341. 
Natural Order BEGONIACER. 
Genus Brconta, Linn. 
Sub-genus Sremerta, A. DC. 
B. Hooxeriana (Gardn. in Hook. Journ. iv. 135). Ramis lignosis 
petiolis pedunculis nervisque foliorum subtus pulvere brunneo 
vestitis, foliis breviter petiolatis subcoriaceis magnis acutis 
crenatis inequilateraliter oblongis basi uno latere breviter 
cordatis altero truncato-cuneatis supra viridibus clabrescenti- 
bus, floribus copiosis minimis in cymas longe pedunculatas 
pluries dichotomiter furcatas sepius unisexuales dispositis, 
floribus masculis sepalis 2 obovatis albidis reflexis, petalis 
2, angustioribus, floribus foemineis petalis et sepalis similibus 
ovario tomentello, capsula angulis tribus late subsequaliter 
alatis—A. DC. Prod. xv. 3877. 
A native of the Organ Mountains, gathered by Gardner, 
Burchell, and others. 
Stems woody, subscandent, reaching a height of five or six feet, 
angular, sulcate, clothed—like the petioles, pedicels, ovary and 
veins of the leaf beneath—with fine mealy cinnamon-brown 
tomentum. Stipules deciduous, ovate-lanceolate. Petiole an inch 
or less long. Leaves reaching a couple of feet long by a third as 
broad, subcoriaceous, scarcely at all fleshy, a rather dull green 
on the upper surface, free from tomentum when mature, pulveru- 
lent especially on the copious veins below, oblique-oblong narrowed 
suddenly to an acute point, crenate, cuneately cut away at the 
base on one side, shallowly cordate and produced on the other. 
Cymes long-stalked, usually unisexual, many times dichotomously 
forked, half a foot to a foot broad. Petals and sepals of male and 
female flowers similar, in both two in number, not more than 
one-eighth of an inch deep, obovate, milk-white, reflexed. Cap- 
sule under half an inch deep, the membranous veined subequal 
rounded wings a line and a half to two lines broad. 
Tas. 341.—1, branch, natural size; 2, male flower, magnified ; 
8, corymb of female flowers, natural size. 4, simple female flower ; 
5, horizontal section of ovary: both magnified. 6, fruit, natural 
size.—J. G. B. 
