Begonia, MONOECIA POLYANDRIA, 649 
ty, very short, Anthers long, clavate, opening with a long 
slit on opposite sides. Female calyx none. Corol as in the 
male, but larger. Stamina none. Germ inferior, smooth, 
and thickly spotted with red, four-lobed, four-celled ; each 
ceil containing two reniform receptacles, attached to the mid- 
dle of the axis, ovula innumerable over every part of the re- 
ceptacles, Style four, bifid, yellow; segments or stigma 
spiral like the horns of a ram. 
2. B. lacimata. R. 
Caulescent, erect, hairy. Leaves unequally cordate, laci- 
niate, serrulate-dentate. Peduncles the length of the petioles, 
few-flowered. Capsule with one large, oval: obtuse wing. 
Beng. Hooirjo. 
A native of the Garrow hills, and the eastern frontier of 
Bengal. Flowering time the rainy season, the seeds ripen in 
November, 
Root fibrous, Stem simple, rather sieulbak” about bien- 
nial, first erect, afterwards more or less procumbent, hairy, 
jointed; from six to eighteen inches long, and as thick as a 
ratan. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, unequally cordate, 
acutely laciniate, margins serrulate-dentate, and ciliate ; from 
three to six inches long and broad, Stipules oblong. Pe- 
duncles axillary, solitary, about as long as the leaves, from 
two to six-flowered, and generally more than half of them 
male. Bractes like the stipules, but smaller. Corod four-pe- 
talled, cruciate-oval within, ferraginous on the back. Male 
stamina numerous, inserted on a conical receptacle, clavate. 
Filaments rather short. Female germ inferior, oval, with two 
narrow and one broader wing, and for the most part only 
two-celled, each containing numerous ovula, attached to two 
Jjugiform receptacles in each cell, rising from the axis, as in 
Geertner’s Mussaenda frondosa, Style scarcely any, Stigma 
large, variously convolute. Capsule oblong, three-winged ; 5 
but two of them so narrow as scarcely to be observed if not 
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