Tan. 70158. 
BEGONIA SINENSIS. 
Native of China and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. BEGonrIACcES. 
Genus Beeonta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 841.) 
Berconia sinensis; pilosula, tubero subgloboso, canle annuo erecto herbaceo 
ramoso, foliis 3-5-poll. longis oblique ovato-cordatis longe acuminatis 
basi palmatim 5-9-nerviis grosse sublobulato-dentatis creberrime in- 
zequaliter argute serratis serrulatisque membranaceis supra lete viri- 
dibus subtus pallidis junioribus roseo irroratis, petiolis 1-2-poll. longis, 
stipulis majusculis ovatis acuminatis herbaceis recarvis, axillis sepe 
bulbilliferis, pedunculis dichotomis inferioribus petiolis longioribus, 
cymis bisexualibus, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis caducis, floribus roseis 
breviuscule pedicellatis ad } poll. latis, fl. masc. bibracteolatis, sepalis 2 
fere orbiculatis concavis, petalis 2 multo minoribus ovalibus, fl. fem. ebrac- 
teolatis, sepalis 2, petalis 1 v. 2 parvis, staminum columna brevissima, 
.  filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongis, ovario obconico 3-gono, stigmatibus 
- veniformibus undique papillosis, placentis 3 bipartitis, segmentis extus 
tantum ovuliferis, capsula 3-alata, alis 2 angustis tertia trigona. 
-B. sinensis, A.DC. in Ann. Soc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. ii. p. 125; in DO. Prodr. 
vol. xv. pars i, p. 313. Hance in Jowrn. Bot. vol. xii. (1874) p. 260, 
Hems\. § Forbes in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xxiii. (1887) p. 323. 
PB. Evansiana, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 627, non Bot. Mag. t. 1473, nec Bonpl. 
Malm. t. 63. 
Begonia sine nomine, Buc’hoz, Coll. Prec, des Fleurs, Parti. t. xxxv. 
Begonia sinensis is well described by A. de Candolle, but 
is placed in the section Knesebeckia, from his character of 
which it differs in the segments of the placentas being 
ovuliferous on the outer faces only. He rightly compares 
it with B. Hvansiana, Andr. (non Bot. Mag. t. 1473), but 
_ overlooks the fact that two plants are confounded under 
~~ ~“that name. One, the original, figured by Andrews (Bot. 
Rep. t. 627) said to have been found at the waterfall of 
Penang, with hardly any stipes to the head of stamens; 
the other, that of Bonpland (Jard. Malm. t. 63, and of this 
magazine, t. 1473), a much larger-flowered plant, with a 
long stipes supporting the head of stamens. Unfortunately 
de Candolle has selected the latter as Andrews’ species. 
Clarke, in “ Flora Brit. Ind.,” vol. ii. p. 638, cites B. 
sinensis (from the description) as a synonym of B. Hvan- 
siana, with which he unites the Bot. Mag. plant and 
B. obliqua, Thunb. With regard to “the waterfall in 
Penang” which Andrews gives as the habitat of B. Hvan- 
siana, this is no doubt an error; for OC. Curtis, in his 
Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of that 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1899, 
