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Begonia. ] LXV. BEGONIACEA (HOOKER). 577 
erect, 6-10 in., simple, slender, rigid, as thick as a sparrow’s quill. 
Leaves alternate, distichous, shortly petioled, 14-21 in. by 3-1 in., 
obliquely obovate or oblanceolate or subrhomboid-oblong, long-acumi- 
hate, obscurely lobed beyond the middle, coarsely irregularly toothed, 
equally hirsute on both ‘surfaces, lower margin rounded and auricled, 
upper narrower, shorter, and acute at the base; nerves alternate. 
tipules  in., oblong, toothed and ciliate ; petiole 4-3 in. Flowers 
small, in subterminal, few-flowered, decurved ‘cymes, clothed with 
stipule-like bracts; female solitary in the axils below the males. Male 
- (young only seen): Sepals 2, suborbicular, hairy at the back. Petals 
- Anthers linear-oblong, curved, obtuse. Female fi. : ty iat in. 
ong, orbicular-oblong. Petals 0. Ovary 3-gonous; styles 3, stigmas 
orked, arms very short, papillose band continuous. Capsule decurved, 
§-} in, long, oblong-rhomboid or ovoid or truncate, pilose; wings 
membranous, rounded; faces keeled between the wings; dehiscence 
longitudinal. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Gaboon river, Mann! FI. July. 
18; B. auriculata, Hook. f. Monccious, glabrous throughout. 
Stems stout, 6-12 in.? unbranched? Leaves alternate, distichous, 
petioled, 4—6 in. by 2-21 in., obliquely obovoid or obovoid-oblong or lan- 
ceolate, long-acuminate, quite entire or obscurely toothed, opaque and 
labrous on both surtaces, base oblique, excised on the upper margin, 
ower margin produced into a large rounded incurved auricle, upper 
margin with a smaller auricle; nerves alternate ; stipules 4 in. long, 
roadly oblong or orbicular, green, quite entire or 7 toothed, per- 
‘istent ; petiole stout, 4-2 in. Cymes subterminal, short, decurved, 
clothed with imbricating green stipule-like bracts, few-flowered. Sepals 
*, suborbicular. Male fl.: Peduncle slender. Sepals apparently as in 
- elatostemmoides. Capsule 4 in. long, pedicel slender decurved rhom- 
oid-orbicular or obovate, 38-winged; wings rounded, membranous ; 
sides keeled between the wings; dehiscence longitudinal. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Gaboon river, Mann! Fi. July. 
19. B. sessilifolia, Hook.f. Monccious? Stem 1-2 ft., slender, 
Simple or branched, rather rigid, substrigose towards the tip and on the 
nerves beneath. Leaves alternate, subsessile, distichous, 3-4 in. by 1-1} 
seg obliquely elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, long-acuminate, ob- 
Scurely sinuate or quite entire, base rare excised on the upper 
Margin, lower margin produced into a smal incurved auricle, upper 
surface lurid green, opaque, lower paler ; petiole re-8 in.; stipules } in., 
roadly elliptic-oblong, flat, green, toothed and ciliate. Peduncles 
short ‘axillary, decurved, strigose, few-flowered, clothed with flat im- 
Ticating oblong bracts like the stipules ; pedicels very short; bracteoles 
mear. Male #.- Small, all in the upper cymes. Sepals 3, } in., 
roadly oblong, obtuse, white. Anthers about 16, subunilateral, linear- 
oblong, emarginate, filaments very short. Female fl. and capsule not 
seen, : 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt. 1000-2000 ft., Mann! Fi. Nov. 
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