OcroBER 8, 1910] New Spectes or BEGONIA 737 
both ends; pistillate segments 3, broadly oblong; styles short, 
glabrous, bearing obscurely forked brown pulverulent stigmas; 
seed elliptic, 12.5 mm. long, with the wings 4 cm. across 
the truncate top, 3-winged, gradually curving from the base 
to the rather blunt outer point, transversely nerved. 
Type specimen 9903, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuer- 
nos Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
Discovered in stony moss covered soil of a wind-swept 
wooded ridge at 5250 feet. Forming dense jungles and well 
intermixed with other fine undershrubs. 
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Begonia crispipila Elm. n. sp. 
Coarse terrestrial herbs; stems greenish, 1 m. long, branch- 
ed; its branches somewhat recurved, provided with crisp dull 
white hairs which turn dull brown in the dry state. Leaves 
| opposite, scattering, diverse in size, the larger blades 1.5 dm. long, 
7 cm. wide a trifleabove the middle, submembranous, horizontal 
or descending, drying brown, rich-green above, much paler green 
beneath, obovately oblong in outline, the base very oblique and 
A truncate or obscurely cordate, apex sharply acuminate, the basal 
! or narrower margins entire, otherwise irregularly dentate, 
some of the upper teeth rather large, crisply pubescent on 
both sides; petiole similarly pubescent, 1 to 3 cm. long; 
nerves conspicuous from both sides, the main nerves with 
2 or 3 ascending lateral ones, about 4 to 7 secondary ba- 
gal ones, the larger ones few-forked, reticulations obscure; 
stipule brown and submembranous when dry, nearly 2 em. 
wide, hairy, oblong, abruptly pointed. 
Inflorescence short and few-flowered, from the uppermost 
Jeaf axils, less than 3 cm. long, in the early state much 
shorter and subtended by large pubescent bracts, the folded 
bracts subtending the pedicels or flowers nearly glabrate; pe- 
[ dicels slender, subglabrous, 5 mm. long; staminate perianth 
: segments 2, short ovate, shallowly cordate at base, 6 mm. 
across; anthers truncately clavate, dehiscent along the edges 
from apex toward base; pistillate segments 3, oblong, about 
as long; styles 3, with obscurely forked stigmas; seed elong- 
ate elliptic, 3-winged, with the wings 16 mm. wide near 
the apex, about as high; the wings rather thin, reticulate, 
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