. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. BEGONIA BB. Color of tls. rose-red or white. 79. rosseildra, Hook. Stemless : petioles, scapes, bracts, and stipules bright red: Ivs. green, 2-4 in. wide, BEGONIA 149. 215. Begonia Socotrana (X K). No. 72. on stout, hairy petioles, 2-6 in. long, orbicular, reniform, concave, margins lobed, red, toothed : fls. 2
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. BEGONIA BB. Color of tls. rose-red or white. 79. rosseildra, Hook. Stemless : petioles, scapes, bracts, and stipules bright red: Ivs. green, 2-4 in. wide, BEGONIA 149. 215. Begonia Socotrana (X K). No. 72. on stout, hairy petioles, 2-6 in. long, orbicular, reniform, concave, margins lobed, red, toothed : fls. 2 in. across, rose-red. Peru. 5680.—Light colored seedlings of this species gave rise to Queen of Whites, put into com- merce in 1878, and destined to be a most important factor in subsequent garden forms of the same color. Int. in 1867. 80. geranioides, Hook. Stemless, rootstock fleshy : Ivs. radical, reniform, 6 in. across, lobed and toothed, green, hairy, petioles 8 in. long: peduncles erect, 6-12 in. long, reddish, hairy, bearing a lax panicle of fls., each l^in. across, pure white, with a button-like cluster of yellow anthers. Natal. 5583.—Planted in a border in a sunny greenhouse, this is a fine Begonia, flowering profusely during Oct. and Nov. Int. to Kew in 1866. AA. St. present. B. Color of fls. cinnabar-red, orange-red, bright red or scarlet. 81. Boli'vi^nsis, A. DC. St. herbaceous, succulent, 2 ft. high, branching: Ivs. lanceolate, acuminate, ser- rate, 3-5 in. long : fls. in drooping panicles, cinnabar- scarlet, fuchsia-like ; males twice as large as females. Bolivia. 5657. —The first Tuberous Begonia intro- duced into England, 1864. 82. Vditchii, Hook. ,thick, fleshy, green: Ivs. orbioulate, cordate, lobed and incised, margins cili- ated, green, principal veins radiating from a bright car- mine spot near the center, under side pale green; petiole thick, terete pilose: fls. 2JiLn. in diam., cinnabar-red: capsule smooth, unequal wings.
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