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rosea, rotundata, ad 5 mm. longa. Stamina circiter 10. Styli b. 

 Fructus ignolus. 



Mexico. Chiapas; Ciudad Real (San Christoval), Linden 708. 



807. Begonia (Mitscherlichia) Rajah, Ridley [Begoniaceae] ; 

 Gard. Chron. 1894, voL xvi. p. 213, fig. 31 (nomen) ; Kew 

 Bulletin, 1895, Appendix ii. p. 34 (nomen); a B, goegoensi, 

 N. E. Br., petiolis teretibus et lursutis, foliis inaequaliter cordatis 

 ciliatis snbtus pilosis et insigniter purpureo-maculatis differt. 



Herha acaulescens, nana. Folia radicalia, longe petiolata ; 

 limbus oblique cordato-orbicularis, breviter et abrnpte acnmi- 

 natus, crenulatus, interdum snbangulatus, reticnlato-venosus, 

 7-15 cm, longus, 6-15 cm. latus, viridis, insigniter brunneo- 

 maculatus, supra nitidulus, bullatus, subtus pallidior, margine 

 ciliatus ; petioli snberecti, 8-25 cm. longi, pilosi ; stipulae 

 lanceolato-oblongae, subacutae, 1*5-2 cm. longae, Pedunculi 

 suberecti, 20-25 cm. longi, pilosi, apice laxe cymosi. Bracteae 

 ovatae, subacutae, 5-8 mm. longae, ut racliis roseo-suffusae. Flores 

 masculi pedicellati, pedicellis gracilibus circiter 1 cm. longis. 

 PeriantJiii segmenta 4, pallide rosea, 2 externa late obovato- 

 orbicularia, obtusa, 1-1-2 cm. longa, 2 interiora anguste oblonga, 

 obtusa. Stamina in tore convexo 1*5 mm. alto insidentia ; 

 filamenta brevissima; antherae obovato-oblongae, brevissimae- 

 Flares foeminei graciliter pedicellati. Perianthii segmenta 

 3 vel 4, pallide rosea, quorum 2 exteriora late elliptico-ovata, 

 obtusa, 6-7 mm. longa, caetera auguste oblonga et multo angus- 

 tiora. Ovarium 3-loculare, 7-8 mm. longum, albidulum, roseo- 

 marginatum, alis 4-5 mm. latis obtusis subaequalibus, placentis 

 integris, Styli 3, basi breviter connati, 2-2-5 mm. longi, 

 bifurcati, ramis in helicem sesquicyclicum tortis papillosis. 



Malay Peistin'SULa. Tringganu district. 



Malay 



was brouglit from the Tringganu district by a plant collector of 

 the Singapore Botanic Gardens, where it flowered in 1892. It 

 is mentioned in the Annual Eeport of the Singapore Botanic 

 Garden for 1892 (page 3), as a very fine Begonia from Tringganu, 

 but was not described. Plants were sent to Europe, and in 

 August, 1894, it was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, 

 and received a First-class Certificate. The plant on which this 

 description is based is grown on the rockwork in the Nepenthes 

 house at Kew. n. a. n. 



((gO 808. Senecio Purdomii, Turrill [Compositae-Senecionideae] ; 

 S. nelumhi folio, Bur. et Franch., alfinis, sed capitul' 

 majoribus, involucri bracteis dense fulvo-puberulis diiSert. 



Caulis erectus, teres, longitudinaliter sulcatus, dense fulvo- 

 puberulus- Folia radicalia late orbicularia, apice rotundata, 

 basi valde cordata, 3-3 dm. longa (petiolo excluso), 4*1 dm, 

 lata, margine undulata et regulariter dentata, dentibus 

 parvis, supra glabra subtus in nervis praecipue fulvo-puberula, 

 palmatinervia, nervis principalibus 5-7 pagina inferiore valde 

 prominentibus superiore leviter impressis, lateralibus reticulatis 



