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none. Stamens numerous, the anthers obovoid, about 1 mm 
long, shorter than the filaments. Capsules usually solitary, in 
outline obovoid, including the wings about 2 cm long and 2 cm 
wide at the truncate apex, somewhat narrowed below, the base 
abruptly truncate-rounded, the wings subequal, conspicuously 
ciliate with long, scattered, brownish hairs. 
LUZON, Camarines Province, Mount Bagacay, Bur. Sci. 33855, 
33926 (type) Ramos & Edafio, December 18, 1918, on forested 
slopes, altitude about 650 meters, the leaves when fresh very 
red on the lower surface but merely brownish or brownish-red 
when dry. 
This species is probably as closely allied to Begonia mac- 
gregoriti Merr. as to any other described form. It is easily 
distinguishable by its numerous cilia and especially by its ciliate 
capsules. 
BEGONIA LONGIBRACTEA sp. nov. § Petermannia. 
Herba erecta, ramosa, saltem 40 cm alta, ramis perspicue 
subadpresse ciliatis; foliis membranaceis, inaequilateralibus, 
oblongo-obovatis, 6 ad 14 ecm longis, profunde et irregulariter 
pinnatim lobatis, lobis usque ad 2.5 cm longis, plerumque grosse 
1- vel 2-dentatis, apice tenuiter acuminatis, basi lateraliter cor- 
datis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, racemosis, circiter 1 
em longis, bracteis numerosis anguste lanceolatis leviter ciliatis, 
8 ad 10 mm longis instructis; floribus ¢ paucis, sepalis 2, ellip- 
tico-ovatis, 5 mm longis, petalis 2, quam sepalis multo angus- 
tioribus; capsulis solitariis, 10 ad 12 mm longis, usque ad 15 
mm latis, truncatis, basi late rotundatis, aequaliter 3-alatis, lev- 
iter ciliatis. 
An erect, somewhat branched herb, at least 40 em high, the 
lower nodes often rooting, the branches rather conspicuously 
subappressed-ciliate, the leaves slightly so. Leaves greenish 
when dry, membranaceous, in outline oblong-obovate, 6 to 14 cm 
long, 2 to 7 cm wide, conspicuously inequilateral, deeply and 
irregularly pinnately lobed, the lobes up to 2.5 cm long and often 
coarsely 1- or 2-toothed, the apex long and slenderly acuminate, 
the acumen toothed, the base somewhat narrowed, laterally cor- 
date, one side rounded, the other usually acute, the upper surface 
with few, scattered, elongated hairs, the lower somewhat ap- 
pressed-hirsute on the midrib and veins; petioles 5 mm long or 
less; stipules narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, about 8 mm long, 
sparingly ciliate. Inflorescences axillary, of short, few-flowered, 
simple racemes, the axils, 1 cm long or less, supplied with numer- 
ous, narrowly lanceolate, long, acuminate, somewhat ciliate 
