2556 LEAFLETS Or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
Discovered this elegant Begonia in compact well drained 
soil of a steep forested ravine at 4250 feet height of Cawila- 
nan peak.  ''Bonogbonog" is its Manobo name. In this 
altitudinal region it was seen quite often climbing up to three 
to five feet along small dead stems and along the rough 
stems of living tree ferns. 
Its greatest affinity is with Begonia lagunensis Elm. yet 
sufficiently distinct in a number of minor details of the 
flowers, braets and leaves. 
q Begonia peltata Elm. n. sp. 
Small or larger tufts; stem with fibrous roots, 1.25 cm 
thick, curved, short, seldom branched, herbaceous, succulent, 
deep red, horizontal or only tips ascending. Leaves alterna- 
tingly crowded at the ends of the stem; petiole ascending, 
similarly colored, soft, terete, varying from 1 to 2 dm long, 
densely fulvus hairy, sour, blackish brown when dry; the + 
subtending bracts 1to 1.5 cm long, broadly oblong, roughen- 
ed but glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, at the apex few ciliate 
or only the mucronate point ciliated, subpersistent; blades 
descending, leathery, much paler green beneath, exceedingly 
diverse in size but not in shape, ovately rotund or rotund, 
apex with a short rather sharp point, entire, glabrous ex- 
cept the veins on the nether side, peltate, the larger on 
our specimen 23 cm long by 17 cm wide, the smaller ones 
8 cm long by 5.5 cm wide, drying similarly reddish brown 
on both sides, dark green and shining on the upper side, 
minutely punctate on both surfaces; veins 7 to 9, radiating 
from the end of the petiole a trifle below the middle of 
the blade, the upper or strongest one extending into the 
apex and with 2 to 3 faint lateral pairs, all the other veins 
from 1 to 3-forked, reticulations coarse and quite evident 
on the upper side only, the veins and forks hispid in the 
early state especially on the lower side, ultimately glabrate, 
much darker brown in the dry state. Peduncle ascending 
from the uppermost leaf axils, glabrous, subterete, exceeding 
the leaves, branched at the top; branches distichously re- E 
branched from the base, glabrous, straw brown when dry, db 
striate and subangular, a trifle thickened at the point of 
