I have quoted, it has been introduced in 1816 from the 
Berlin Garden into the Physic Garden at Chelsea.” 
“‘ Caulescent, fleshy, 2-3 feet high; stems round, red- 
dish, upright, branched, furless, intervals between the 
leaves the length of the petioles. Leaves nearly vertical, 
minutely furred, cordate, rounded, shining, plaited, some- 
what doubly crenate, of a lively green above, paler under- 
neath, wpper ones with a slanted blade, dower with an almost 
entirely evensided one; petiole of the colour of the stem, 
the length of the blade, channelled at the upper side: 
stipules ovate, pointed, scariose. Panicles few-flowered 
hairy; bractes of the barren flowers ovate close-pressed, of 
the fertile flowers nearly round. Barren flowers pale tinged 
with red, outer segments broad-ovate blunt, inner ones four 
times narrower concave rather pointed—fertile flowers pale 
green, but little smaller, wings of the germen obtuse one 
larger than the rest.” Lindley MSS. 
The whole of this article was kindly communicated by 
Mr. Lindley while the plant was in flower last spring. 
The following short notice of the natural tribe of our 
plant is taken from Mr. Brown’s Observations on the Botany 
of Congo. “ The extensive genus Beconta, which it is per- 
« haps expedient to divide, may be considered as forming a 
“ natural order, whose place, however, among the Dicoty- 
“Jedonous families, is not satisfactorily determined. Of 
“© Begoniacece, no species has yet been observed on the conti- 
“ nent of Africa, though several have been found in Mada- 
<¢ sascar and the Isles of France and Bourbon, and one in 
“ the Island of Johanna.” Brown obs. bot. Congo. 45. 
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