738 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 43 
strigose, the widest portion above the middle, the outer points 
very blunt or obsolete. 
Type specimen 8687, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
ef Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
In gravelly soil of a humid wooded gulch along the Iri- 
san creek, a few miles west of Baguio and at 4750 feet. 
"Qaguwan'' is the Igorot name. 
Begonia gitingensis Elm. n. 8p. 
Succulent terrestrial herbs; rootstock red, succulent, short, 
sparingly branched, creeping and forming chumps; petioles 
ascending or erect, dark red, terete, 1 to 2 dm. long, short 
brown hairy or becoming nearly glabrous; stipular bracts red, 
oblong, acuminately pointed, 1.5 cm. long, glabrous; blades 
rigidly coriaceous, ascending, nearly flat or folded toward the 
base only, shining deep green above, much lighter or yellowish 
green beneath, ovate in outline or ovately oblong, the rounded 
basal portion entire, otherwise irregularly and coarsely den- 
tate or subentire especially along the straighter edge, gradually 
tapering into the sharply acuminate apex, 1.5 dm. long, 7 cm. 
wide below the middle; main nerve with 2 to 3 lateral ones 
on each side and about 3 basal ones on each side, the larger 
ones 1 to 3-branched, brown and only sparsely strigose no 
the under side, reticulations obscure. 
Inflorescence upon scapes longer than the leaves, erect, 
glabrous, numerously and finely paniculately branched toward 
the top only; flowers yellowish white or reddish, subtended 
hy small folded deciduous bracts; pedicels very slender, 5 
mm. long, twice as long in the fruit; staminate perianth 
of 4 very unequal and decussately arranged segments; the 
outer pair greenish, oblongish elliptic, 5 mm. long; the inner 
creamy white, less than one half as wide and nearly as 
long; stamens crowded upon the center, many; filaments 
very short, glabrous; anthers small, rounded at the apex, 
dehiscent along the edge; perianth of the pistillate flowers 
similar; styles 3, short, glabrous, bearing forked pubescent 
stigmas; seed elliptic, 7 mm. long, 3-winged; the wings 
1.5 em. wide across the middle, similarly curved from 
both ends, point rounded, transversely reticulate. 
