PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF BEGONIA, 399 
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ad 15 cm diiuuetro, integris, plus minus obliquis, basi cordatis apice 
- brevissime acuminatis; floribus masculinus sepalis G ad 7 mm_ diametro, 
.... . 1 _i*_ n „i.-*««+ir. . c-fo-rmniKiiG o^vo^T9V 40 1 
extus 
capsulis obliquis, circiter 1.5 cm longis, 5-alatis, alis maequalibus, una 
lata, concava, aliis multo angustioribus, planis., . 
Stems prostrate, creeping and rooting, red when fresh, sctose-cihate 
with brown hairs. Leaves suborbieular to subreniform, somewhat obli- 
que, 5 to 15 cm long, often a little wider, entire, when fresh very thick 
firmly 
a short, stout, lateral acumen, the upper surface glabrous except for few 
long brown hairs on the nerves, the lower surface brown when dry the 
nerves densely brown-setose-ciliate ; nerves about 9, radiate, often forked ; 
petioles red when fresh, stout, 8 to 15 cm long, densely brown-set<^e- 
ciliate- stipules ovate, acuminate, brown-setose, about 1 cm long. !n- 
floresc;nce as long as the leaves and petioles, erect, glabrous or nearb" 
so, branched at the top, the branches divaricate or spreading, few-flowerec , 
the bracteoles small, deciduous. Male flowers pink Sepals 2, subo- 
bicular rounded, 6 to T mm in diameter, slightly brown-setose on the 
nert oXide. Petals 2, oblong-obovate. Stamens about 40 , filaments 
free or nearly so, nearly as long as the anthers, which are oblong, about 
1 5 ml longf the connective slightly produced. Female flowers not seen. 
Caprules oblique, about 1.5 cm long and 2 cm wide with one large concave, 
oblique wing, and 5 subequal much narrower ones. 
P.r,AWA^, Malampaya Bay, Merrill 7229, September 18, 1910, on ledge, m 
'"TvercLl^Me species on account of its 5-winged capsules one wing being 
oontve ind vT; \uch ,'arger tban the otber four whicb are flat. Perhaps not 
truly referable to the section DiplocUmum. 
46 Begonia oxysp^rma A. DC. in Ann. Sci. Nat. IV 11 (1859) 122, Prodr. 
15' (1864) 2^f i f ;■ Ji^; J™ ,^P J J^^^^^ Banajao. loU .',65, type iu 
■ ™:;tirei: Ti:cJ:l'S:Z:: L original ho,ne of the piant to 
^r- -tl^/rSe four .eei.ens . .i™.^^ 
(Kow) g- the locahty a. Lu^on one (S ^^^ ,^ ^^^^^, ^,^„^ 
^1 TitTsTot Ts yJt bet. found Tutside of the Philippines, it is safe to 
and as it has not as jev correct. It has 
assun,e that in this case the loea ty S^^-^^ ^^ ^^^.^ l,„ts in the 
been assumed by some f ^^'^^ , ""/,jf ^'"i^^ot always the case. About 
Kew set are l^ ;^;l^,Z[otXi^v£: J^^y on the "authority of LobVs 
:rc-;r:; Tab^ela l.t certain^ did not come from the Archipelago, but 
