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small, ellipsoid, testa reticulate-rugose. — Distrib. About 7 species, 

 all from the Malay Archipelago and Peninsula. 



Leaves markedly serrate, very unequal-sided .. ... 1. P.begonicvfoliuin. 



Leaves entire or only slightly dentate, nearly or quite equal- 

 sided : — 

 Stem short, flower spikes from upper axils, calyx and corolla 

 usually 5-lobed . . . . . . . . 2. P. Scortechinii. 



Stem elongate, flower spikes from lower axils, calyx and 



corolla usually 4-lobed , . . . . . . . 3. P. Ridleyi. 



1. Pentaphbagma begoni^folium, Wall. Cat. 1313. A short- 

 stemmed fleshy herb, with flexuose rooting stems and few branches 

 covered with crispate ferruginous woolly hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 ovate, the base obliquely excised on one side, cordate on the other, 

 shortly acuminate at apex, 6 to 10 in. long, 4 to 5 in. broad, coarsely 

 serrate, sparsely crispate-villous ; midrib thick, near the excised side, 

 main-nerves 1 on the excised side, 4-5 on the other, the nerves again 

 branching outwards ; petiole '3 to 1 in. long, crispate-villous as are the 

 nerves beneath. Inflorescence a short, 1 to 4 in. long, scorpioid, shortly 

 peduncled spike, with 2-ranked flowers between ovate membranous 

 bracts '25 in. long, axillary in the uppermost leaves ; flowers dull 

 yellow supported by an oblong or spathulate villous bracteole -2 in. 

 long, -1 in. broad. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, ovoid, crispate 

 villous ; lobes 5 obtuse, rounded, recurved, shorter than the tube, 

 crispate villous without, glabrous within. Corolla white, campanulate, 

 5-lobed, the lobes spreading and recurved, marcescent, oblong obtuse 

 glabrous. Stamens 5, free, -1 to '125 in. long; anthers oblong, filaments 

 dilated at base. Ovary turbinate, 3-celled ; ovules many, on axile 

 placentas ; stjde short, stigma cylindrically peltate, obscurely 3-lobed. 

 Fruit a berry, dehiscence not known ; seeds very many, testa pro- 

 minently reticulate. DC. Prod. VII. 495 ; Hook. f. and Th. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. II. 26 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 568 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI. ii. 210 ; Clarke in Hook, f . M. Br. Ind. III. 437 ; Baillon 

 Hist, des Plantes, VIII. 323, t. 152-154 ; Schonl. in Engl, and Pr. Nat. 

 Pflz. — Pam. IV. 5, 60, fig. 37. Phyteuma hegonifolimn, Eoxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 85, Fl. Ind. I. 505 ; Jack in Hook. Bot. Misc. I. 276, t. 57. 



Penang: Wallich 1313; Maingay 2266 (K.D. 712); Stoliczka ; 

 Deschamps ; Hullett 200 ; Kunstler 1598. Perak : Scortechini 336 

 (part) ; Wray 3668. Singapore : Lo66.— Distrib. Mergui, Griffith. 

 A plant of the undergrowth in dense shady forests. Ridley (Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. III.) (1893, 315) says that it " grows on rocks along the 

 Tahan River, and also far in the woods, in rocky valleys, common." 



2. Pentaphragma Scortechinii, n. sp.. King & Gamble. A 



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