2554 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINZ BorANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
pair erect and in the bud state enclosing the loose cluster 
of stamens, spreading and shriveling after bloom, ovate, 
relatively few veined, hyaline, 6 mm long and 5 mm wide 
below the middle, connate at or toward the base, broadly 
obtuse at the apex; the inner pair at right angles to the 
outer pair, more distinctly hyaline, obovately elongated, 4 
mm long, 2.5 mm wide above the middle, rounded at the 
apex; stamens many, upon an elongated ciuster 5 mm in 
length, light yellow even when dry; filaments averaging 1 
mm long, glabrous, hyaline; anthers compressed, at least 
0.75 mm long, 0.5 mm wide across the rounded base and only 
obscurely notched at the apex, basifixed, dehiscing along the 
edges; young capsule with stigmas persistent; style short, 
glabrous, 3 parted toward the top, subtended at the base by 
3 unequal membranous lobes; stigmas 2-lobed, each lobe as 
long as the style, much curved and pulverulent or short 
ciliate. Capsule with wings 0.75 cm high and 1.5 em a- 
cross, glabrous, straw brown; larger wing 5 mm wide at the + 
middle, the other 2 a trifle narrower, all tapering from 
both ends toward the obtuse middle point; seed portion el- 
liptic. 
Type specimen number 14222, A. D. E. Elmer, Mam- 
bajao, Island of Camiguin, Mindanao, November, 1912. 
In loose soil among stones of a steep wooded incline 
at 1750 feet altitude. i 
Not Begonia gitingensis Elm. nor Begonia mindorensis Merr., 
because capsule wings are not so broadly rounded, leaf 
margins less entire, veins and petioles glabrous or nearly so. 
Begonia elegans Elm. n. sp. 
A creeping, sprawling and climbing perennial; stem suc- 
eulent, greenish, terete, glabrous, when old covered with a 
smoothish yellowish gray epidermis, less than an ordinary 
lead pencil in thickness, repeatedly branched and forming 
quite densely interlaced masses along its support, turning 
light to dark brown when dry; main branches alternatingly 
rebranched from near the base, the ultimate ones rather 4 
slender, glabrous and somewhat compressed. Leaves alterna- ET. 
ting, well scattered along all the branchlets, descending, thinly 
