390 MERRILL, 
not seen. Staminate panicles temiinal, ample, dicliotomously branched, 
about 11 cm long, diffuse, rather many-flowered, the pedicels slender, 5 
to 7 mm long, the bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 mm 
long, deciduous. Staminate flowers vermillion, about 2.4 cm in dia- 
meter. Sepals 2, broadly ovate, or orbicular-ovate, rounded, about 12 
mm long. Stamens about 30; anthers narrowly obovoid, obtuse, about 
1.2 mm long, the filaments somewliat longer. Capsules not known. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Infanta, :\Iount Einuaug, Bur. Sci, 9U9 Robinson, 
August, 1909, in forests at an altitude of about 800 m. 
This species is characterized by its rather large, vermillion staminate flowers' 
that are arranged in difluse, terminal, panicles, and by its leaves being nearly 
entire, denticulate but not lobed or dentate-lobed, and rounded, not cordate at , 
the inequilateral base. It is manifestly allied to Begonia merrittii, B. malindan- 
gensis, and related forms. The leaves, stems, and flowers like most of our species, 
have a pleasant acid taste, and are eaten by the Tagalogs and by the Negritos 
as a relish with fish. 
31. Begonia subtruncata sp. nov. 
Suffruticosa, erecta, ramosa, glabra; foliis oblongis, subfalcatis, in 
siccjtate chartaceis, subtus pallidis, basi non angustatis, oblique truncato- 
rotundatis, non cordatis, altero latere late rotundatis, altero angustis, 
acuti?, breviter petiolatis, margine dentatis vel subdentato-lobatis, apice 
aeuminatis; inflorescentiis paucifloris, floribus masculinis ignotis; cap- 
sulis 2 cm longis, S cm latis, aequaliter 3-alatis, apice late truncatis, basi 
acutis. 
An erect, branched, glabrous, suffrutescent plant exceeding 0.5 m 
in height. Leaves oblong, often subfalcate, strongly inequilateral, base 
not narrowed, ven- oblique, rounded-snbtruueate, not cordate, one side 
very broad, rounded, the other very narrow, acute, chartaceous and 
rather pale on the lower surface when dry, 7 to 15 cm long, 2 to 5 cm 
wide, dentate or subdcntate-lobed, apex acuminate; basal nerves 7 or 8, 
the outermost ones not prominent; petioles 7 to 12 mm long; stipules 
lanceolate, caducous, about 1 cm long. Inflorescence in the uppermost 
axils, few flowered. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers : Perianth 
segments ovate, about 7 mm long; styles 3, short, forked, the stigmas 
spirally twisted; bracts 2, at the base of each flower, membranaceous, 
ovate, about 8 nmi long. Capsules 2 cm long, 3 cm wide across the 
truncate apex, equally 3-winged, narrowed to the acute l>aso. 
Luzon, Province of Union, Castilla, Loher 6076, March, lOOG. 
Probably allied to Begonia merrittii Merr., but differing in several characters, 
notably in its leaves not being at all cordate. It is distingiiislied from Begonia 
eumingii A. Gray, by its leaves being quite glabrous. 
32. Begonia everettii sp. nov. 
Sufl'ruticosa, erecta, glabra; foliis membranaceis, inaequilateraliter 
oblongo-ovatis, basi valdc oblique tiuncatis, vix vel obscurissime cordatis, 
altero lat(?re angustis, acutis, altero latissime rotundatis. apice subcau- 
