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‘BEGONIA vumrroua. 
 Elm-leaved Begonia. oe - 
MONGCIA POLYAN DRIA. —Nar. Orn. BEGONIACEA, Bonpl. De Cand. — 
Gen. Cuar.—Mas. Cal... Corolla polypetala. Petala, plerumque quatuor, 
inequalia. Fam. Cal. 0. Corolla petalis 4-9, plerumque inequalibus. | 
Sue tres, bifidi. Capsule Cem alata, oa polysperma. 
: Begonia ulmifolia, \ aia ‘Sp. Pl. v. iv. p. 418. —Puns. a Pi. v. ii. p. 564. 
Haw. Saxifr. Enum. (1821, p. 197. 
: ee two feet or more in height, daitinga, herbaceous, green, succulent, 
branched, beset with a few soft scattered hairs, which are deciduous be- 
low. ‘Leaves large, handsome, alternate and distichous, petiolate, with 
large ovate stipules at the base, obovato-oblong, acute, unequal, in their 
lower half duplicato-dentate ; very glossy above, furrowed with veins, 
hispid with soft white hairs, deep green; below paler, the nerves promi- 
nent, furnished with a few soft hairs. Petioles very much shorter than 
the leaves, green, hispid. 
Peduncles arising from the axils of the superior oe 4: to 6 sachies in length, 
yet shorter than. the leaves, twice forked at the extremity, each ramifica- 
_ tion bearing an umbel of mixed male and female flowers ; every general 
“and partial flower-stalk is furnished with an ovate, membranaceous brac-~ 
tea, resembling the stipules. 
Male flowers rather large, showy, ite or biged with rose color, com- 
posed of 2 rounded, nearly plane, spreading petals. Anthers numerous, 
yellow, united at the base. Filaments rather long. Female flowers with 
a germen, which is triangular, pilose, and trialate, wings unequal; one 
of them very large, white, veined, with a, protruded, rather acute point; 
_ the two others green, short, very obtuse. Corollas of 4 unequal, 2 small 
and ovate, and 2 large and rounded, white petals. Styles 3, bifid, curved : 
Stigmas 2-lobed ; all of them glanduloso-punctated, yellow-green. 
‘This Begonia, appre dibgeh named ulmifolia by 
WILLDENOW, makes a very handsome appearance in the 
stove, with its large glossy, distichous, luxuriant foliage, and. 
its delicate, gs rose-colored flowers, which have bright yellow 
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