JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS. 365 
often six or seven inches long, angulate, sometimes with five 
acute lobes, sometimes nearly ovate, acuminate, dentato- 
serrate, edges recurved, very smooth, 5— 7-nerved, finely 
punctate, the dots appearing elevated on the upper surface 
and depressed on the lower. Petioles 4—6 inches long, 
nearly smooth, furnished immediately below their junction 
with the leaf with a semiverticil of linear acute appendices or 
scales. Stipules large, ovate, rather laciniate towards the 
apex, one on each side the petiole. Peduncles axillary, 
"erect, 6—8 inches long, red, very smooth, terminated by a 
dichotomous divaricated panicle of white flowers tinged with 
red. Bracts roundish. Male: Perianth four-leaved, leaflets 
rather thick and fleshy, the two outer ones much larger and 
subrotund, before expansion completely enclosing the inner 
two, and having their edges mutually applied to each other 
in such a manner that they form an acute carina round the 
unexpanded flower. Stamina numerous, in a roundish head; 
filaments short, inserted on a central column which rises 
from the base of the flower. Anthers oblong, cells adnate 
to the sides of the filaments, bursting longitudinally. Female: 
Capsules with three equal obtusely-angled wings, three-celled, 
three-valved, valves septiferous in the middle, sutures cor- 
responding to the wings. Seeds numerous, attached to 
placente which project from the inner angle of the cells. 
Oss. The serratures are hard and cartilaginous and 
recurved in such a manner along with the margin of the 
leaf, that when only observed on the upper surface, their 
place is perceived by an indentation. It seems to resemble 
the B. grandis, Dryand. which differs, however, in having 
oblique doubly serrated leaves, and purple flowers. 
BEGONIA FASCICULATA. W. J. 
Foliis inferioribus alternis, superioribus oppositis, oblongo- 
ovatis basi semicordatis duplicato-serratis pilosis, perianthiis 
masculis diphyllis, capsula alis aequalibus obtusangulis. 
