442 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Order BEGONIA CE^. 



Flowers mona?cious. Stamens numerous. Anthers extrorso. Oiary inferior, 

 3-cellc(l, many-ovuled. Capsule witli 3 cells, winged on the back, and 3 loculicidal 

 valves. Seeds numerous. Albumen scanty or none. Mnbri/o straiglit, axile. 



Begonia, Ziiinaus. 



Sub-genus CASrAREA, DC. 



Capsule fleshy and berry-liko, dehiscing on the angles or broad thick wings. 



B. EoxBUEGHir, DC. Chittagong. 



Casparya oligoearpa, DC. 

 B. Malabarica, Roxb. 



A robust rather glabrous branched herb. Styles 4. Berry 4-ceUed and 

 4- cornered, the angles jsroduced into as many horn-like appendages. 



Sub-genus Begonia, DC. 



Capsules dry, dehiscing in a semi-circular line along their sides near the wings 

 or angles. 



* Styles 2, each branch 1-cleft or variously dilated or branched. Capsule 2-ceUed. 

 Placentas consisting of 2 longitudinal ovule- or seed-bearing blades. 



X Stamens free. Capsule unequally Z-icinged, the 2 lateral icings often reduced to 

 a membranous rib. 



B. lAcitriATA, Roxb. Hills East of Toung-ngoo at 6000 to 7000 feet. 



A robust branched herb, softly pakaccous-pilose. Leaves long-petioled, lobed. 



B. MEGAPTEEA, DC. Nat-touug in Martaban {fde llason). 



As preceding, but more slender and quite glabrous. 



B. NEiroPHiLA, Kz. Hills East of Toung-ngoo at 3000 to 4000 feet. 



Robust rather simple herb, softly palaceous-pilose. Leaves long-petioled, not 

 lobed. Petals pale rose-coloured, only about i inch long. Capsules stuppose-hirsute, 

 the lower wing broad and rounded, t inch long. 



X X Stamens monadelphous. 

 ■\- Male 2}crianth H-lobed, the female one 5-6-lobed. Cajysnle uncqitally Z-winged. 

 \ Inflorescence axillary or arising from the base of the leaf, or an axillary bud. 

 % Leaves alternate or whorled, rarely reduced to a single one. Flowers small, white. 



° Glabrous. 



B. PEOciiiDiFOLiA, "Wall. Tavoy. 



Leaves alternate, the petioles 1-2 lines long. 



B. vEEiiciLiATA, Hook. Maulmaiu {fde Parish). 



Leaves whorled, longer petioled. 



° ° Stems and petioles pubescent. 



B. Maetabanica, DC. Tenasserim. 



Inflorescence glabrous. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, sparingly and minutely 

 hirsute above. 



1 1 Leaves solitary radical or few and alternate. Flowers small, white. 



B. SDfUATA, Wall. Tenasseiim and the Andamans. 



Diploclinium biloculare, "\^'ight. 

 £. Andamanensis, Parish. 



More or less stellate-velvety. Inflori scence glabrous. Leaves alternate or rarely 

 solitary. 



