284: 
a 
BEGONIA humilis. 
Small-flowered Begonia. 
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MONCCIA POLYANDRIA. 
gen nord Plante incerte sedis. Polypetale germine infero. , Jussiew es 
Brconracem. Bonpland nav. & malm. 151. ppt 
6- BEGONIA. Mascutt ots Cal. 0. Cor. pet. & (in octopetala: 
tam fle ate subrotunda (in ferruginea, omnia subsequalia oblonga)-. 
coality, numerosa (15-100) receptaculo inserta, brevissima, interdtm basi 
cum m Anth. oblonge, erect. Fominer FLoRzs, plerumque in eodem. 
aliis f% asculis pedunculo communi. Cal. 0. Cor. pet. plurimis 5, aliis 6, 
tte 4, plertimque inequalia. Germ. inferum, 3-quetrum, in plurimis. 
3.1 Styli plerisque 8, bifidi. Stig. 6. Caps. plerisque 3-quetra, 
ryan i oc., basi secus alas dehiscens; aliis biloc.; aliis forté uniloc. 
Vander in Trans. linn. soc. 1. 158. ioe 
ee 
B. hump; Div. II. Caulescentes, foliis semicordatis. 5 
as ts caulescens erecta, foliis hispidis semicordatis duplicato-serratis, 
‘psule alis rotundatis pardm inaqualibus. Dryander loc. cit. 166. t 
Bi Oo : 
“sonia humilis. Hort. Kew. 8. $58. ed. 2. 5.285. Willd. sp. pl. 4» 417. 
nea eeee 19. n. 673 absque icone; (viT tamen hic referenda BEGONIA 
ae is Bonpland nav. et malm. 151. tab. 62. que vel B. hirsuta aut species . 
Bego =H opinquior. ) 
i ae suaveolens. Loddiges bot. cabinet.69. ; sit 
bentes page carnosa, pellucida. Caulis petioli et pedunculi pallidé ru- 
bipedal; vaulis teres, geniculis- tumidis, primo anno spithameus, altero anno 
suprg a Fol. semicordata, acuminata, duplicato-serrata peserraturis ciliatis 
Subtys rs Woe viridia, hispida @ strigis mollibus erectis bast tuberculatis, 
&tiam 4 idé viridia, glaberrima preter strigas rarioribus an Vents, quales 
Aesth aR Sti ule semovate, concave, ciliate, hyaline. Pedunculi 
minut,’ ried dichotomi. Bractea ad basin Ft The: ciliata, 
que pa Fror. MAsc. pet. alba: 2 cordato-or' iculata magna; 2 minima, 
ba aaa floribus omnind desunt. Fil. circitér 15, brevissima; anth. 
Paul> q; utee, FLOR. FM. pet. 5, alba, persistentia, obovato-oblonga: 2 
inegualifn on i Germ. 3-gonum, an, ulis qoulis, alis rotundatis, parum 
divaricat US, pallide carneis. Styli 3, brevisseme: stig. 2-partita: lacima 
minimis @ dein convergentes et term divergentes, lute, tecte@ glandulis 
- Caps. figura germinis. Dryand. loc. cit. ; , 
eget’ fsure of the species and Mr. Dryander’s masterly 
= ee in the Linnean transactions, are both taken from 
aaweae plant, a circumstance. that will account for some 
a difference in the appearance it makes in the figure 
& given, especially when it 1s recollected that the whole 
vegetable is succulent and tender. Our specimen, when we 
