LXVI. BEGONIACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 645 



28. B. rubro-venia, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4689 ; caulescent, leaves elliptic 

 or lanceolate acuminate entire or slightly angular undulate outer perianth-seg- 

 ments white with rose-red veins. A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 347. B barbata, 

 Wall. Cat. 3b79 B,parOy. 



SIXKIM, BHOTAN and KHASIA Mrs., alt. 3000-6000 ft., frequent. 



Bootstock thick. Plant 8-16 in., stem puberulous or minutely pubescent. Leaves 

 3-6 in., usually narrow, sometimes elliptic, shortly pubescent on the nerves beneath 

 otherwise glabrous, base unequal rounded scarcely cordate ; petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules 

 persistent, lanceolate, caudate, glabrous. Peduncles axillary, 3-6 in., usually divided 

 only near _ the top and few-flowered ; bracts like the stipules and persistent ; flowers 

 medium-sized. MALE : sepals 2, rounded ; petals 2, narrower, white ; stamens numer- 

 ous, very shortly monadelphous ; connective produced, obtuse. FEMALE : perianth- 

 segments 5, 3 inner gradually smaller, white ; ovary glabrous ; styles 2, combined at 

 the base, very tortuous. Capsule - by 1-1| in. including the wings, often re- 

 curved in fruit, the broad wing much descending its upper edge concave ; broader 

 faces first falling away. Seeds ellipsoid. 



VAB. Meisneri, Wall. Cat. 6294 ; shortly caulescent, leaves linear-lanceolate very 

 tomentose on the nerves beneath. Khasia Mts., Wallich ; alt. 3500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 

 Leaves 2-4 by - in. ; petiole J-l in., pubescent, tomentose. Flowers and cap- 

 sules like those of B. rubro-venia but smaller. Wallich's type examples look like a 

 distinct species, but the examples of C. B. Clarke connect the two. 



29. B. laciniata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 649; caulescent, leaves roundly 

 ovate acutely lobed with ^eft pubescence, petioles brown-tomentose, outer 

 perianth-segments rose-red pubescent on the back, ovary pubescent. Sot. Mag. 

 t, 5021 ; A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 347 ; Wall. Cat. 3678; Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1877,_pt. ii. 107. ? B. palmata, Don Prodr. 223. B. Bowringiana, Champ, 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 120 ; Sot. Mag. t. 5182. 



NIPAL to BURMA ; ascending in SEKKIM to 7000 ft. Very common in KHASIA and 

 CHITTAGONG. DISTBIB. South China. 



Eooistock long, creeping, neither woody nor tuberous. Stem 6-24 in., more or less 

 brown-tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., always more or less lobed, lobes usually 

 many, caudate-acuminate, often 2 in. long, ciliate, usually but slightly serrate, 

 rounded or cordate more or less unequally at the base, pilose above, pubescent on 

 the nerves beneath aid more or less villous or tomentose ; petiole 1^-4 in. ; stipules 

 f in., persistent, lanceolate, mucronate, pubescent. Peduncles 3-6 in., usually from 

 one or two uppermost axils, tomentose ; bracts large, oblong, tomentose ; flowers 

 medium, not very many, always more or less glandular-pubescent on the back, 

 from nearly white to deep rose. MALE : sepals 2, long-elliptic ; petals 2, narrowly 

 obovate ; filaments nearly free, about 50, anthers obovoid ; connective little produced, 

 obtuse. FEMALE: perianth-segments 5-4, inner gradually smaller; ovary with 

 pubescent, not mere glandular, roughness ; styles 2, divided from near the 

 base into 2 much contorted branches. Capsule by 1 in. including the wings, 

 often recurved in fruit, with a descending wing ; dehiscing by 4 lines adjacent to, 

 and one on each side of, the two narrow wings. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat ob- 

 ovoid. 



VAB. ? flava ; flowers full yellow, leaves green finely serrate, ovary and sepals 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous. Sikkim, alt. 5000 ft. ; J. D. H., Treutler \ Darjeeling, 

 7000 ft. alt. ; C. B. Clarke ; Herb. Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2577). Perhaps a 

 species : the plant has not the brown-red tint of B. laciniata, the leaves are thinner 

 and less softly hairy. Alph. DC. doubts the correctness of the colour of the flowers ; 

 it is a full deep yellow as noted on the specimens of J. D. H. and C. B. Clarke, 

 and as shown in the excellent figure of Cathcart preserved at Kew. 



VAB. tuberculosa ; ovary with glandular tubercles not pubescent, flowers pale pink 

 glabrous. Sikkim, alt. 6000 ft. ; J. D. H., Treutler. 



