Begonia.] lxvi. begoniace^. 855 



axillary peduncles, white. Male -5 in. across. Sepals 2 ovate, 

 obtuse. Petals 2, obovate as large. Stamens in a head ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, blunt. Female, stigmas 2, bilobed, spiral. Fruit 

 green, pulpy, -5 in. long with 3 rounded ridges ending in points, 

 not winged, 3-celled. Hub. Dense forests. Selangor, Ginting Bidai ; 

 Menuang Casing (Kloss). Pahang, Telom (Ridley). 



(2) B. Forbesii King, I.e. 58. 



A dwarf plant hardly 6 in. tall, rhizome rusty villous. Leaves 

 round ovate acuminate, slightly equally cordate, edge toothed, 

 glabrous above, white-scaly beneath, nearly glabrous; nerves 9, 

 1-25 to 2-25 in. long, i to 2 in. wide; petioles 1-5 to 3 in. long. 

 Stipules lanceolate, villous -3 in. long. Peduncles slender, i to 

 3-5 in. long with i terminal flower or branched 2 to 5 flowers. 

 Bracts obovate oblong. Flowers pink; pedicels red. Males, 

 sepals 2, oblong blunt, -15 in. long. Petals 2, smaller. Anthers 

 obovate, tips emarginate. Females, sepals round ovate. Petals 

 oblong. Styles 3. Capsule 3-celled opening on each face; wings 

 sub-equal triangular blunt. Hab. Perak, Sungei Larut (Wray), 

 rare. 



(3) B. Rajah Ridl. Gard. Chron. xvi. 213, fig. 31 ; Kew Bulletin, 

 1895, App. ii. 34; 1914, p. 329. 



Dwarf plant. Leaves radical oblique cordate, green with red- 

 brown blotches, edge ciliate, 3 to 4 in. long, 3 to 6 in. wide. Stipules 

 lanceolate-oblong. Peduncles hairy, 3-5 to 7 in. long, laxly cymose 

 at tip. Flowers small, rose pink, 7 in. across. Males, sepals 2, 

 obovate, orbicular, blunt. Petals 2, narrow oblong. Stamens on 

 a convex torus. Females, sepals 2, elliptic-ovate. Petals i to 2, 

 narrow oblong. Capsule -5 in. across with 3 oblong rounded equal 

 thin wings. Hab. Tringganu. Brought to Singapore Botanic 

 Gardens in 1892 and cultivated there. 



(4) B. isoptera Dryand, Smith's Ic. 43. B. Wrayi Hemsl. 

 Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 203. 



Caulescent, 3 ft. tall, nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong 

 to lanceolate, base cordate, very unequal, coarsely dentate ; nerves 

 prominent, 3-5 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles -5 to 2-25 in. 

 long. Stipules -75 in. long, lanceolate or oblong. Panicles leaf- 

 opposed, slender; females at base, males at top, 3 to 6 in. long. 

 Males -2 to -3 in. across. Sepals 2, round, pink; anthers oblong 

 apiculate. Female, sepals and petals 5 ; styles 3, bifid. Capsule 

 3-celled, -8 in. long and as broad, oblong, base usually broad and top 

 broad refuse; wings 3 equal narrow, -25 in. wide. Hab. Common 

 in lowland woods in damp spots. Pahang, Tahan River. Malacca, 

 Sungei Hudang (Coodenough) . Selangor, Ulu Gombak; Ginting 

 Simpai ; Semangkok. Negri Sembilan, Perhentian Tinggi. Perak, 

 Ulu Kerling; Coping (Kunstler) ; Ulu Kenering (Wray). Penang, 

 Penara Bukit ; Batu Hitam (Curtis). Legeh (Gwynne-Vaughan). 

 Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



