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none. Stamens numerous, the anthers obovoid, about 1 mm 

 long, shorter than the filaments. Capsules usually solitary, in 

 outline obovoid, including the wings about 2 cm long and 2 cm 

 wide at the truncate apex, somewhat, narrowed below, the base 

 abruptly truncate-rounded, the wings subequal, conspicuously 

 ciliate with long, scattered, brownish hairs. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Mount Bagacay, Bur. Sci. 33855, 

 33926 (type) Ramos & Edano, December 18, 1918, on forested 

 slopes, altitude about 650 meters, the leaves when fresh very 

 red on the lower surface but merely brownish or brownish-red 

 when dry. 



This species is probably as closely allied to Begonia mac- 

 gregorii Merr. as to any other described form. It is easily 

 distinguishable by its numerous cilia and especially by its ciliate 

 capsules. 



BEGONIA LONGIBRACTEA sp. nov. § Petermannia. 



Herba erecta, ramosa, saltem 40 cm alta, ramis perspicue 

 subadpresse ciliatis; foliis membranaceis, inaequilateralibus, 

 oblongo-obovatis, 6 ad 14 cm longis, profunde et irregulariter 

 pinnatim lobatis, lobis usque ad 2.5 cm longis, plerumque grosse 

 1- vel 2-dentatis, apice tenuiter acuminatis, basi lateraliter cor- 

 datis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, racemosis, circiter 1 

 cm longis, bracteis numerosis anguste lanceolatis leviter ciliatis, 

 8 ad 10 mm longis instructis ; floribus $ paucis, sepalis 2, ellip- 

 tico-ovatis, 5 mm longis, petalis 2, quam sepalis multo angus- 

 tioribus; capsulis solitariis, 10 ad 12 mm longis, usque ad 15 

 mm latis, truncatis, basi late rotundatis, aequaliter 3-alatis, lev- 

 iter ciliatis. 



An erect, somewhat branched herb, at least 40 cm high, the 

 lower nodes often rooting, the branches rather conspicuously 

 subappressed-ciliate, the leaves slightly so. Leaves greenish 

 when dry, membranaceous, in outline oblong-obovate, 6 to 14 cm 

 long, 2 to 7 cm wide, conspicuously inequilateral, deeply and 

 irregularly pinnately lobed, the lobes up to 2.5 cm long and often 

 coarsely 1- or 2-toothed, the apex long and slenderly acuminate, 

 the acumen toothed, the base somewhat narrowed, laterally cor- 

 date, one side rounded, the other usually acute, the upper surface 

 with few, scattered, elongated hairs, the lower somewhat ap- 

 pressed-hirsute on the midrib and veins ; petioles 5 mm long or 

 less; stipules narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, about 8 mm long,, 

 sparingly ciliate. Inflorescences axillary, of short, few-flowered, 

 simple racemes, the axils, 1 cm long or less, supplied with numer- 

 ous, narrowly lanceolate, long, acuminate, somewhat ciliate 



