170 Mn. DnvANDER's Olfervations 
nofi, petiolis tenuiores et breviores. Sripule radicales, ovate, acu- 
minatz, concave, dorfo carinatæ, carnofæ, albicantes, marcef- 
centes, femunciales. Flores umbellati, mafculis numerofis, femi- 
neis paucis. Umbelle interdum compofite. Braéfee ad bafin pe- 
dicellorum lanceolate, parve, caducæ. Pedrcelli teretes, leves, 
fibrillis adfperfi, parum colorati, flore longiores. Floris mafculi 
Petala quatuor, nivea: duo exteriora cordato-orbiculata, extus 
fibrillis confperfa, intus glabra, nervis obfoletis notata, ante flo- 
refcentiam invicem adpreffa, plana, fub anthefi patentia; Petala 
. duo interiora, cum exterioribus alternantia, ovata, acuta, utrinque 
glabra, exterioribus duas tertias minora. Filamenta bafi connata, 
numerofa (50), capillacea, glabra, albicanti-viridia. Anthere erectz, 
clavatæ, filamentis longiores, petalis interioribus breviores, luteæ. 
Floris feminei Petala fex, quorum tria exteriora, tria interiora, a 
mafculis non nifi numero diverfa. Germen clavatum, triquetrum, 
ad angulos alatum, fibrillis adfperfum. Styli tres, ereétiufculi, cla- 
vati, glabri, lutefcentes, petalis minoribus parum breviores. Stig- 
mata reniformiter curvata, apicibus craflioribus, pilis aureo-luteis 
tenuiffimis prefertim ad apices obducta. Caf/u/a turbinata, tri- 
quetra, alata, trilocularis. Receptaculum feminum membranaceo- 
trialatum. Semina utrinque ad alas adnata, numerofa, globofa, 
minima." ; 
Dr. Koenig quotes as fynonym Soneri-ila Rheed. Mal, ix. p. 127, 
tab. 65; but the plant there figured has tripetalous hermaphrodite 
flowers, with three ftamens and one ftyle. 
The annexed figure is from a dry peste in Sir  Joieph Banks's 
Herbarium. 
| 20. BEGONIA diptera, acaulis, foliis inæqualiter cordatis, pedunculis 
dichotomis, capfulæ ala una maxima; altera anguíta ; tertia 
obfoleta. 
6 | Begonia 
