366 JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS, 
Found at Tappanuly on the west coast of Sumatra. 
Caulescent. Stem weak, jointed, thickened at the joints, 
round, covered with red hair. Leaves petiolate, the lower 
ones alternate, the upper ones opposite, oblong-ovate, inzequi- 
lateral, semicordate at the base, acuminate, irregularly serrate, 
covered above with red erect subspinescent hairs, beneath 
with softer and weaker hairs.  Petioles densely pilose. 
Stipules linear, acuminate, pilose. The flowers appear in 
fascicles from the middle of the petioles, and these flower- 
bearing leaves are always opposed to another without flowers, 
hence it is that the upper leaves are opposite while the lower 
arealternate. Fascicles composed of male and female flowers ; 
pedicels slender, smooth, white. Bracts several at the base of 
the fascicles, acute, pilose, red. Male: Perianth diphyllous, 
white. Stamina numerous. Anthers yellow. Female: Perianth 
superior, white, cup-shaped, five-leaved ; petals ovate, acute, 
with a few short red hairs on the outside. Style deeply 
trifid; lobes convolute, infundibuliform. Capsule three- 
winged, three-celled, wings equal, obtuse-angled. 
BEGONIA PILOSA. W. J. 
a 
Foliis subsessilibus irregulariter serratis acuminatis pilosis 
subtus rubris, bracteis ad basin pedicellorum subrotundis 
ciliatis, capsulz alis subzequalibus parallelo-rotundatis. 
Interior of Bencoolen. 
Caulescent, pilose. Leaves alternate, scarcely petiolate, 
ovate, insequilateral, acuminate, slightly and irregularly 
serrate, pilose with long red hairs, under-surface of a bright 
red colour; about three inches long. Stipules large, lanceo- 
late, pilose externally. Peduncles oppositifolious, subdicho- 
tomous, Bracts at the base of the pedicels, roundish, ciliate. 
Flowers white. Male: Corolla four-petaled, the inner pair 
smaller. Stamina numerous. Female: Corolla five-petaled ; 
the two outer petals larger. Capsule three-winged; wings 
nearly equal, parallel and rounded. 
