856 Lxvi. BEGONiACE^. [Begouia. 



(5) B. isopteroidea King, I.e. 59. 



About 3 ft. tall. Leaves very oblique ovate-lanceolate acumin- 

 ate, base rounded broad or the narrow side shortly acute, lobulate 

 dentate, white, scaly beneath; nerves 7, 3-5 to 4-5 in. long, i-2 to 

 1-5 in. wide, green; petioles 2 to 3-5 in. long, red. Stipules lanceo- 

 late acute, 75 in. long. Peduncles i in. long with 2 pedicellate 

 and I sub-sessile, pale apple-pink flowers. Males, sepals 2, 

 round oblong 75 in. long. Petals 2, -5 in. long. Stamens on an 

 elongate column; anthers quadrate short truncate. Females, 

 nearly as large; style short, branches 3, spiral. Capsule 75 in. 

 long and wide, 3-celled, narrowed at base, wings oblong, narrow, 

 unequal. Hah. Perak, Gunong Brumber Pahang, at 5000 ft. 

 altitude (Wray). 



(6) B. barbellata Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. x. 135. 



Plant 14 in. tall or less. Stem firm glandular-hairy. Leaves 

 membranous, obliquelj^ lanceolate-acuminate crenate serrate, base 

 narrowed to a blunt rounded tip, with a few scattered hairs on the 

 upper surface and the nervules hairy beneath, 5 in. long, 175 in. 

 wide; petioles -i to -25 in. long. Male flowers white, -5 in. wide 

 in cymes of 2 or 3, from lanceolate acuminate hairy bracts. Sepals 

 oblong. Females slightly larger; ovary hairy from lower axils. 

 Capsule oblong, base shghtly narrowed of three equal narrow 

 wings, -4 in. long, -25 in. wide. Hab. Sandy woods. Kelantan, 

 Chaning Woods; very local in sandy spots (Ridley). 



(7) B. Curtisii Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 106. 

 B. Haniffii, Burkill, I.e. 79, p. 103. 



Tuberous ; stem erect, red 2 to 8 in. tall, glabrous. Leaves 

 ovate, unequally cordate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 6 in. long, 2 in. 

 wide, green to brown spotted silver; petioles i to 2-25 in. long. 

 Cymes terminal or axillary. Bracts ovate, white veined red. 

 Male flowers 75 in. wide ; sepals 2, oblong or orbicular. Petals 2, 

 oblong-linear, white or pink-tinted. Stamens in a round head. 

 Females with 4 to 5 sepals and petals. Styles 2 ; ovary 2-celled. 

 Fruit -6 in. long, 3-winged, i wing longer, obtuse, triangular, -5 in. 

 long. Hah. On limestone rocks. Lankawi (Haniff). Dislrib. 

 Kasum (Curtis). 



This charming plant dies down completely in the dry season. 



(8) B. sinuata Wall. Cat. 3680; Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.J. 

 ii. 650; King, I.e. 59. 



Rootstock tuberous. Stem 2-5 to (rarely) 15 in. tall. Leaves 

 reniform blunt or ovate acute, deeply cordate or entire, edges wavy 

 or denticulate, 1-3 to 6 in. long, i to 8 in. wide, often purple, 

 appressed white-hairy; nerves 7 to 11; petioles -5 to 3 in. long 

 pubescent. Stipules small oblong-lanceolate glabrous. Panicle 

 slender, 3 to 8 in. long, puberulous. Flowers few, pink or white, 

 glabrous. Bracts minute, -05 to -i in. long. Males -2 to -25 in. 



