Tas. 8409. 
SYMBEGONIA FuLVo-vILLOSA. 
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New Guinea. 
BEGONIACEAE. 
SymBeconta, Warb. in Eng. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. vol. iii. pars 6 A. p. 149. 
Symbegonia fulvo-villosa, Warb. lc. fig. 52; K. Schum. & Lauter. Fl. 
Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Siidsee, p. 459; foliis conspicue duplo-serratis distincta. 
Herba erecta, 13-21 em. alta. Caulis rubro-tinctus, crispule villosus, superne 
vix ultra 2 mm. diametro. Folia lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, basi valde 
inaequilatera, latere altero valde auriculata, 6°5-7 cm. longa, 3 cm. lata, 
margine conspicue duplo-serrata, supra viridia, nitidula, minute punctato- 
foveolata, nervis waits impressis sparse inconspicue pilosulis, ceterum 
glabra, subtus plus minusve rubro-tinct», nervis valde prominentibus 
hispidulis, venulis inconspicuis, mesophyllo dense albido-punctato ; petioli 
circiter 4 mm. longi, uti caules induti. S//pulae lanceolatae, costa producta 
caudatae, in toto 1°5 em. longae, 3°5-4 mm. latae, pallide virides, mem- 
branaceae, cauda 4-5 mm. longa. ores monoici, breviter pedicellati. 
¢: Perianthii segmenta 2, libera, ovata, valvata. Stamina 12-20; fila- 
menta pro parte majore in columnam connata; antherae basifixae, oblongo- 
ovatae, lateraliter dehiscentes. 9: Perianthivm gamophyllum, campanu- 
latum, pallide flavum extra breviter fulvo-villosum, lobis 5 patulis ovatis 
denticulatis. OUvarium omnino inferum, trialatum, breviter inconspicue 
villosum, alis subtriangularibus acute acuminatis; styli 3, basi connati, 
profunde bifidi, superficie stigmatica spirali; placentae bilamellatae 
lamellis parallelis utrinque ovuliferis.—Begonia fulvo-villosa, Warb. ex 
K. Schum. & Lauterb. lc.—T. A. SPRAGUE. 
The interesting plant here figured is a member of the 
Begoniaceae, which family is now known to include five 
distinct genera. In two of these, Begonia itself and //ille- 
_brandia, the segments of the perianth are distinct in both 
the sexes; in one of them, Begoniella, the segments of the 
perianth are united in both sexes. The remaining two 
genera have the perianth-segments distinct in one sex, 
united in the other. In Semibegoniella it is the male flower 
which has the segments of the perianth united, while those 
of the female flower are free. But in Symbegonia, the 
genus to which the subject of our illustration belongs, it is 
the female flower in which the perianth-segments are united, 
the male in which they are free. This genus is endemic 
in New Guinea, and includes four species, all of which have 
been discovered in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. The plant which 
December, 1911. 
