LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. II. Manila, P. I., October 8, 1910. Art. 43 
NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER 
ne ans 
Begonia lagunensis Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent and forming interlaced masses; stem soft, 1.5 
em. thick, watery, covered with a light gray bark; branches 
glabrous, succulent, reddish, numerous. Leaves alternatingly 
scattered, copious, descending, rigidly coriaceous and breaking 
with a snap, glabrous, light green above, paler green beneath 
even in the dry state, flat, exceedingly variable in size, the 
smaller ones lanceolate, the larger ones oblong or ovately 
oblong, the basal portion usually rounded and entire, slen- 
derly acuminate or caudate at apex, margins apiculate or 
irregularly dentate, the medium sized blades 5 cm. long by 
2 em. wide below the middle, curving, dull green; nerves 
usually 3 from near the base, the middle one with 1 to 3 
side veins, much ascending, the larger ones branched, retic- 
ulations obsolete; petiole smooth, 1 to 3 cm. long, reddish; 
stipule 1 cm. long, linear, running into a sharp point, thin, 
brown at least when dry, glabrous. | 
Inflorescence from the uppermost leaf axils, few-flowered, 
glabrous, 3 to 5 cm. long; pedicels filiform, 1 cm. long, sub- 
tended by small folded bracts; staminate perianth segments 
2, nearly 1 cm. long, ovately oblong, emarginate at 
SERBS EG SP SS SONS S aa EARS RM GI SI ee 
