62 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



4 to 7 in. long and 2 to 4'5 in. broad ; petioles 1*5 to 4 in. Peduncles 

 varying in length from 1 to 2 in., slender, glabrous, bearing a few- 

 flowers near tbe apex. Male flower ; sepals 2, rotund ; petals 2, 

 narrowly oblong ; stamens about 50, monadelpbous ; anthers obovoid. 

 Female ; ^enaw^^-segments 5, gradually smaller inwards : styles 2, 

 with two twisted branches. Capsule '4 in. long and "75 in. broad to 

 the ends of the wings, the smaller wings very narrow ; the posterior 

 one broad, descending. A. DC, Prod. XV, Pt. 1, 352 ; Clarke in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 648. 



Perak ; Scortechini 571. Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 675. 

 Penang; Wallich. Selangor; Ridley 7 2Q9. 



9. Begonia Hasskarlti, Zoll. et Mor. Syst. Verz. Zoll. 31 (not of 

 Miq.) All parts glabrous. Stem a creeping rhizome. Leaves rotund- 

 ovate, shortly and abruptly caudate-acuminate, peltate, the edges wavy 

 but entire ; both surfaces glabi-ous, the upper pitted when dry, the 

 lower with sub-rotund scales; main-nerves about ten, radiating from 

 the insertion of the petiole, not very prominent; length 3*5 to 5'5 

 in. ; breadth 2'25 to 3'75 in. ; petiole attached to the leaf about '75 

 to 1'25 in. from its lower edge; stipules short, lanceolate. Peduncle 

 usually longer than the leaves (often twice as long), about as thick as 

 the petioles, bearing a few slender branches near the apex, ebracteate. 

 Flowers small, white tipped with red. Male '2 in. broad; sepals 2, 

 reniform, the margins thick. Stamens numerous, cuneiform-oblong, 

 their apices emarginate ; filaments very sjiorfc, free. Female, sepals 2, 

 with vertical veins, reniform ; style short, thick, with 4 short branches ; 

 stigmas ^, much lobulate. Capsule 4-celled, '6 in. long, the lateral 

 wings very narrow ; the posterior broad slightly narrowed to the blunt 

 apex, '5 in. long : seeds minnte, ovoid, tapering to one end, brown, shining, 

 pitted. B. peltata, Rsissk. in Koev. et De Yriese, Tijdschr. X (1843) 

 J33. Metscherlicia coriacea, Klotzsch in Abh. Akad. Berl. (1855)74; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 696. B. coriacea, Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 209 ; 

 B. hernandiaefolia, Hook, (not of others) Bot. Mag. t. 4676. 



Perak; Scortechiiii 1607 ; King's Gollect or U27, 824!^ ; Ridley 9QS9. 

 Pahang ; Bidley 2442. — Distrib. Java, Zollinger 1613. 



This is one of three species to which the specific name peltata has been given. 

 That name m^ust however be reserved for the Brazilian species to which it was 

 first applied by Otto & Dietr. (All^. Gartenz. IX (1811) 58). The MSS. name 

 B. Hassharliana was given by Miqael to a species near B. coespitosa which he con- 

 fused with Zollinger's No. 1613 (the type of the species above described), and 

 this inaocnracy was perpetuated by Miquel on p. 1091 of his Fl, Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. I, where he describes Diploclinium Hasskarlianiun. 



10. BKGONfAScORTECHiNii, King, n.sp. B/w2;07??e Creeping, sliort, scaly. 

 590 



