736 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY ` [Vor. II, Arr. 43 
the base, pink or whitish; stamens numerously clustered in 
the middle; filaments short, subequal, glabrous; anthers brown 
when dry, ellipsoid, dehiscent around the apical edge and 
toward the base; pistillate segments 8, somewhat larger; 
Styles 3, glabrous, bearing obseurely forked brown pulverulent 
stigmas; seed elliptic, 3-winged, 1.5 em. wide across the top, 
gradually tapering from base to the rather conspicuous points. 
Type specimens 9327 and 7467, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Seandent and forming bushes upon small stems 15 feet 
from the moist humus covered ground in the forests at 4000 
feet of mount Banahao. 
Begonia negrosensis Elm. n. sp. 
Rank terrestrial clump, with several stems from the same 
root cluster; stem 2.5 cm. thick, greenish brown, 2 to 3 m. 
long, branched from below the middle, suberect or reclin- 
ing; branchlets not many, crooked, recurved. Leaves des- 
cending, shining green above, much paler beneath, coria- 
ceous, ovately oblong in outline, apex abruptly acuminate, 
the base obliquely subcordate, margins entire or apiculate 
toward the apex, sprinkled with brown hairs, the larger ones 
2 dm. long, 9 em. wide a trifle below the middle, fre- 
quently much smaller; petiole 2 to 8 em. long, becoming 
glabrate, strict; nerves prominent beneath, brown in the 
dry state, sparsely brown strigose, the main nerve with 1 
to 3 lateral ones, about 3 basal ones from the upper side 
and about 7 basal ones from the lower side, most of them 
once or twice forked, reticulations obscure; stipule thin, brown, 
glabrous, oblong, abruptly but sharply pointed, 2 cm. long, 
.6 mm. wide. 
Inflorescence from the uppermost leaf axils, 7.5 em. long, 
short paniculately branched above the middle, all the stalks 
glabrous; pedicels filiform, 2 cm. long, subreflexed, glabrous; 
flowers subpendulous, pinkish white, subtended by strongly 
folded brown bracts; staminate perianth segments 2, broadly 
. elliptic, with cordate bases, 1.5 cm. broad; stamens numerous, 
densely clustered and inserted upon the segments; filaments 
glabrous, subequal; anthers laterally dehiscent, rounded at 
