Mea, occupied with preparations for dinner, did not observe her departure; while on the way, the little maid, gathering flowers, particularly begonia which grew abundantly in the rocky clefts, approached the declivity by which they at one time left the ravine and descending found herself near the rock.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Here currant-bushes were plentiful, generally growing on the pine-trunks, in strange association with a small species of begonia, a hothouse tribe of plants in England.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker