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Pistillate flowers.—Body of ovary sub-rotund, 2 or 3 mm. 
road, the narrow, scarious wing extended at the top on one 
widely spreading. Styles 3, bifid almost to the base, the branches 
stout, very crooked. Immature pods with the body slenderly 
and crookedly 6-nerved on each side, the narrower wing about 
a third as wide and crossed by 6 strong nerves which anastomose 
at the thickened margin, the larger wing produced into a slightly 
ascending inequilaterally ovate process with rounded summit, 
and about 3 times as wide as the body, strongly and crookedly 
many-nerved.. 
“Common on rocks in damp shady places at 800-2000 feet, 
occasionally in deep glens as low as 400 feet. Specimen from 
Agua Dulce Road, about 1000 feet, Nov. 21." (Herbert H. 
Smith, Colombia, No. 1264.) 
Begonia subcostata. 
Stamens about 20, on short, broad filaments distinct to 2 
base, the anthers about 1.5 mm. long, obovoid, with a broad, 
rounded hyaline s it. 
Pistillate Flowers.—Perigone segments 6, the two eje 
reddish, lanceolate, scarcely as long as the four Ei whic 
one wing broader than the other. Styles 3, distinct, two-thirds 
the length of the petals, 2-fid nearly to the base, and bearing 
