292 The Philippine Journal of Science 1920 



For. Bur. 9138, 9158, 9303, 94-29 (type) Whitford & Hutchinson: 

 Lanao District, For. Bur. 23162, 23178 Agama; Malangas, Bur. 

 Sci. 36938, 36943 Ramos & Edano. Basilan, For. Bur. 3435, 

 3916, 6116, Hutchinson, Bur. Sci. 15436 Reillo, 18959 Miranda. 

 This species is common in primary forests in various parts of 

 the Zamboanga District and in Basilan. Fruiting specimens 

 have been collected in July, August, September, November, De- 

 cember, and January. Flowering specimens have been collected 

 in December and February. What is apparently the same 

 species is represented by 574- Agama, from near Sandakan, Brit- 

 ish North Borneo. The local names recorded are mangasalaokag 

 (Sul.), hagg,rhas (Lan.), and kamupang (Sul.). 



BEGONIACEAE 



BEGONIA Linnaeus 

 BEGONIA DOLICHOTRICHA sp. nov. § Petermannia. 



Herba erecta, ramosa, saltem 50 cm alta, perspicue et patule 

 ciliatis; foliis inaequilateralibus, chartaceis, oblongis ad ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis, 8 ad 13 cm longis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi 

 lateraliter cordatis, margine irregulariter grosse dentatis, 

 dentibus ciliatis, utrinque perspicue ciliatis; inflorescentiis 

 circiter 5 cm longis, floribus $ paucis, sepalis 2, orbiculari- 

 ovatis, circiter 1.5 cm longis, petalis, 0; capsulis solitariis, obo- 

 voideis, 2 cm longis et latis, truncatis, basi abrupte truncato- 

 rotundatis, aequaliter 3-alatis, perspicue ciliatis. 



An erect, branched herb, at least 50 cm high, the branches, 

 petioles, leaves," and fruits conspicuously ciliate with long, 

 slender, spreading, scattered, brownish hairs. Leaves thinly 

 chartaceous, inequilateral, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 13 

 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, the apex slenderly acuminate, the 

 base laterally cordate, one side very broadly rounded, the other 

 much narrower and acute or abruptly obtuse, the margins 

 rather coarsely and irregularly toothed, the primary and second- 

 ary teeth terminated by rather long cilia, both surfaces with 

 long, scattered, spreading hairs ; petioles 7 to 15 mm long; stipules 

 oblong-elliptic, up to 1.5 cm long, somewhat ciliate, terminated 

 by a long, sparingly ciliate mucro, up to 5 mm in length. In- 

 florescences in the uppermost axils up to 5 cm long, somewhat 

 peduncled, dichotomously branched, bearing near the base one 

 or few female flowers, and above a few male ones, the bracts 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm long or less. Staminate 

 flowers white, the sepals 2, orbicular-ovate or somewhat reni- 

 form, rounded, up to 1.5 cm wide and nearly as long. Petals 



