OCTOBER 8, 1910] New Spectres or BEGONIA 739 
Type specimen 12368, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes 
(Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, 
April, 1910. 
Collected on ledges or in wet stony soil along deeply 
shaded streamlets at 1750 feet, near the trail toward Espafia. 
A prettily tufted and erect species! 
Begonia leytensis Elm. n. sp. 
Delicate terrestrial herb, 2 to 5 dm. high; stems few 
or several from the same root cluster, more or less decumb- 
ent at the base, sparingly branched; the branches ascend- 
ing, provided with crisp brown dry hairs, slender. Leaves 
alternate, only sparingly scattered along the branchlets, most- 
ly horizontal, membranous, green when dry, paler green 
beneath, hairy on both sides especially on the lower, apex 
slenderly acuminate or even caudate, base oblique with a 
d eordate sinus, oblong or ovately oblong, greatly varying in 
size, margins irregularly but grossly dentate, the larger blades 
1 dm. long by 3 cm. wide below the middle; main nerve 
with 1 to 3 lateral ones, only 1 or 2 basal ones on the 
narrower side, 3 to 4 basal ones on the wider auriculate 
side, the larger ones forked, reticulations not visible; petiole 
2 to 3 em. long, crisply pubescent; stipule 1 cm. long, 
finely pointed, hairy especially along the margins, linearly 
oblong, membranous. 
Inflorescence from the uppermost leaf axils, 2 cm. long, 
few-flowered; branches and pedicels subglabrous, subtended 
by thin greenish ciliate bracts, the latter 1 cm. long; stam- 
inate perianth segments 2, white and slightly tinged with 
red, 7.5 mm. long, broadly oblong or subrotund; stamens 
many, centrally clustered; filaments very short or none; 
anthers brown when dry, dehiscent from the broadly round- 
ed apex along the edges toward the base; the 3 pistillate 
segments similar; styles 3, glabrous, bearing obscurely fork- 
ed stigmas; seed elliptic; the 3 wings 1.5 cm. wide across 
the top, the transversely reticulate wings gradually curved 
from base to the rather conspicuous outer apical points, 
thin and glabrous. 
