Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Srecies—I 2557 
branching, all the branchlets as well as fruiting pedicels 
average 2 cm in length; flowering pedicel only one half as 
long, very slender, subtended by bract vestiges; flowers sub- 
pendant, also subtended by bracts, light pink, anthers light 
yellow; perianth of staminate flowers orbicular and with a 
shallow cordate base, 1 cm long and wide, at first erect 
and clasping the stamens, ultimately spreading, very membra- 
nous and veiny, connate at the base, the edges in the young 
State contiguous; stamens rather numerous, forming a loose 
subglobose mass 5 mm in diameter; filaments glabrous, very 
pale yellow, varying from 1.5 to 2 mm long, filiform; an- 
ther basifixed, obcuneate or truncately short clavate, 1 mm 
: long by 0.75 mm wide across the obscurely emarginate apex, 
obtuse at the base, deeper yellow than the filaments; pistil- 
late flower absent. Capsule 1.5 cm high or higher, 2 to 2.75 
cm wide across the truncate apex including the wings, broad- 
ly rounded at the base though the broader wing extending 
* a trifle farther down, upper and outer points rounded; the 
narrower wing 0.75 cm wide, the wider 1.25 cm, chartaceous, 
brown, glabrous and shining, transversely nerved, the lateral 
wing crescent in shape; seed portion ovately elliptic, also 
glabrous, the 8 stigmas frequently persistent, the basel end 
within 1 to 3 mm above the lower edge of the wings. 
Type specimen number 14183, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. . : 
Discovered around the lower side of high cliffs along 
the western side of the densely wooded Catangan oreek ravine 
at 3500 feet altitude. The Manobo name is "Sappat." 
This is the only species with peltate leaves in the 
Philippines. 
/0 Begonia sordidissima Elm. n. sp. 
Succulent tufts; stem 1.25 cm thick, creeping or trailing, 
sparingly branched, greenish or badius brown, crooked and 
curved and forming more or less interlaced masses, irregu- 
larly nodulose, with mumerous long fibrous roots. Leaves 
le. crowded toward the ends of the stem branches, alternate, 
erect or suberect; petiole similar in color, terete, fuligineus 
