364 JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS, 
pilose. Peduncles often as long as the leaves, smooth, 
bearing a dichotomous cyme of white flowers. Bracts ovate, 
concave. Male perianth four-leaved, the inner pair smaller. 
Stamina numerous, collected into a head. Female perianth 
superior, three-leaved, two exterior large, subrotund, applied 
to each other as in the male flowers, and enclosing the third 
which is much smaller and oblong. Style trifid. Stigmata 
lunato-bifid, yellow and glanduloso-pilose. Capsule three- 
winged, wings nearly equal, obtuse-angled or rounded. 
BEGONIA ORBICULATA. W.J. 
Subacaulis, foliis orbiculatis cordatis crenatis glabris, 
pedunculis subdichotomis, capsulæ alis subæqualibus obtus- 
angulis. 
. Interior of Bencoolen. 
Nearly stemless. Leaves petiolate, subrotund, from three 
to four inches in diameter, slightly oblique, cordate at the 
base where the lobes overlap each other, remotely crenate, 
rounded at the point, smooth except on the nerves of 
the under surface, beautifully and finely punctate above. 
Stipules scariose, acute. Peduncles erect, subdichotomous, 
nearly as long as the leaves, ?. e. about six or eight inches 
in height. Flowers white. Male: Corolla four-petaled, 
the outer pair large, oblong; the inner small. Stamina 
numerous. Female: Capsule three-celled, many-seeded, 
three-winged ; wings obtuse-angled, nearly equal. 
BEGONIA SUBLOBATA. W.J. 
Repens, foliis cordatis subquinquelobis vel angulatis den- 
tato-serratis margine reflexis glabris, capsulæ alis æqualibus 
obtusangulis. 
Found under moist rocks on Pulo Pegang, west coast of 
Sumatra. 
— Repent, with a thick knotty root. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, cordate, sometimes unequally so, large and broad, 
