New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 65 
mit, reticulate-veined. Body of ovary broadly oval, 5 mm. 
long, half as broad as the larger wing, which is nearly ata right 
angle, and ovate with rounded summit. Styles 6, distinct, 
bifid nearly to the base, the branches again bifid and each branch 
aring two or three capitate stigmas. Body of capsule 12 mm. 
long, broadly oval, the smaller wing narrow, little broadened 
upward, very veiny, the larger 3 cm. long, slightly ascending, 
ovate with rounded summit, the upper margin nearly straight, 
the lower slightly descending with regular curve near the base, 
strongly nerved, the nerves branching, the branches erect, 
crooked. 
The type is the pistillate plant, collected by H. H. Rusby 
at Unduavi, Bolivia, 8000 feet, October 1885 (No. 677). The 
staminate plant is unique, collected by Mr. Bang in Bolivia, 
without number or data. 
Begonia lignosa. 
Younger portions and veins of lower leaf-surfaces pilose, 
upper leaf-surfaces lepidote. Stems stout, somewhat 
erved. t : 
sparsely ciliate. Midrib of blades 4 to 6 cm. long, the blade 
2 to 3 cm. wide, obliquely ovate, the base on one side descending 
hairs coarse and somewhat ferruginous. Cyme long an slen- 
derly peduncled, widely and loosely branched, several-bracted 
hickish. Ovary 6 mm. long and about 8 mm. broad, vie, 
Styles 6, separate nearly or quite to the base, very stout, E d 
flattened like their numerous lobes, which terminate m large 
argins of leaves and stipules strongly ciliate, the upper 
leaf-surfaces green and lepidote, the lower brown, very minutely 
