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petiole and on the other expanding into a broad rounded auricle, the 

 edges minutely dentate, rarely with small lobes besides : upper surface 

 with numerous conical papillae each bearing a coarse curved hair 

 flattened at the base; under surface with a few scattered flattened hairs 

 especially on the nerves ; main-nerves 7, radiating from the base, promi- 

 nent beneath ; length 3*5 to 5*5 in. ; breadth 2'5 to Sb in. ; petioles 

 unequal 3 to 6 in. long, with a few flexuose hairs near the apex. 

 Peduncles longer than the petioles, slender, glabrous, 1- to 3-flowered. 

 Flowers on rather long slender pedicels, pink. Males ; sepals 2, 

 narrowly oblong-ovate, obtuse, "8 in. long ; petals 2, narrowly oblong, 

 blunt, *5 in. long ; stamens linear- oblong, apiculate, the filaments un- 

 equal the central the largest. Female perianth unknown ; styles 2, 

 short, 2-branched, branches divided into many flat twisted lobes. Cap- 

 sule '5 in. long and about IS in. broad (to the ends of the wings) ; the 

 lateral wings quadrate-ovate, obtuse, about '4 in. long ; the posterior 

 oblong, blunt, 1 in. long and '4 in. broad. 



Pebak ; at elevations of from 3,000 to 6,700 feet, Wray 318, 349, 

 427 ; King's Collector 8077. 



The upper surface of the leaves is dark green, the nerves being coloured ; the 

 under surface is red of various tints and the flower-stalks are pale crimson. 



19. Begonia Lowiana, King n. sp. Caulescent ; 3 feet high ; 

 stems and branches covered with coarse flexuose glandular hairs. Leaves 

 mostly very obliquely reniform ; but some of the cauline ovate and 

 nearly equal-sided acute, the basal sinus deep, the edges with a few 

 very shallow lobes closely and rather minutely dentate-serrate and 

 shortly ciliate ; both surfaces coarsely rusty-pubescent, the hairs flexuose 

 compressed and with dilated bases, the lower also with small white 

 scales ; main-nerves about 9, radiating from the base, prominent and 

 densely villous ; length 3 to 4*5 in. ; breadth 4 to 7 in. ; petioles un- 

 equal, stoat, villous like the under surface of the ribs and midrib, from 

 •4 in. long in the upper leaves, to 4 in. long in the lower. Cymes few- 

 flowered, leaf-opposed and terminal, shorter than the leaves when in 

 flower, much larger when in fruit ; bracts'ovate-lanceolate, opposite, 

 ciliate. 2^7oi/;ers pink ot?~ white, pedicellate. Male about '75 in. across; 

 sepals 2, ovate-oblong, sub-acute, '6 in. long ; petals 2, oblong, much 

 smaller. Stamens numerous, oblong, blunt, without apical appendages ; 

 filaments short. Female, the perianth of 5 pieces decreasing in size 

 inwards ; styles 2, deeply bifid and spiral. Capsules '6b in. long and 

 twice as broad to the end of the wings ; lateral wings very naiTOw 

 (about '15 in. broad), the posterior oblique, broadly ovate, blunt, '9 in. 

 long and 8 in, broad. 



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