Begonia.'] LXVI. BEGONIACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 647 



and deflexed, by the leaves much less hairy beneath, often quite glabrous ; stipules 

 nearly or quite glabrous. Flowers fruit and seeds as in B. barbata. 



34. B. Thomson!!, A. DC. Pt-odr. xv. pt. i. 349 ; caulescent, leaves 

 ovate acuminate hispid beneath denticulate-ciliate not lobed, petioles densely 

 shaggy, bracts cyme and ovary shaggy. 



KHASIA Mrs., alt. 3000-4000 ft. ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2570) ; Hk.f. & T. ; 

 C. B. Clarke. 



This only differs from B. barbata by being everywhere more hairy, the petioles are 

 densely shaggy as is the stem. One example referred here of Griffith's has the stem 

 and petioles covered with a close brown tomentum without any spreading hairs, and 

 appears much more different from B. Thomsonii than is B. Thomsonii from B. 

 barbata. 



35. B. Griffith!!, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4984 ; stemless, leaves cordate- 

 ovate acute pubescent beneath hardly ciliate on the margin, peduncle bracts ovary 

 and flowers pubescent. A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 349. 



BHOTAN ; Griffith No. 2505 (Kew Distrib. No. 2571). 



Appears to be a variety of B. barbata or B. Thomsonii with an abbreviated stem. 

 The capsules are not ripe but are very like unripe capsules of B. barbata. The leaves- 

 are much less ciliate barbate on the margin than in B. barbata. But for the great 

 authority of Alph. DC., the three B. barbata, B. Thomsonii and B. Griffithii might 

 be united. 



' 36. B. Rex, Putzeys in Fl. des Sei-res,t. 1255, 1256; stemless, leaves cor- 

 date-ovate acute pubescent on the nerves beneath, peduncle upwards bracts ovary 

 and flowers glabrous. Sot. Mag. t. 5101 ; A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 350. 



ASSAM and MISHMEE; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2588, 2589, 2591, 

 Masters. 



Leaves 4-6 in., unequal at the base, undulate, ciliate-denticulate, with a few scat- 

 tered hairs above ; petiole 1-4 in. with spreading hairs. Scapes 4-9 in., glabrous 

 except a few hairs near the base ; flowers medium, rose, not very many. MALE : 

 sepals 2, ovate; petals 2, elliptic; stamens numerous, monadelphous, anthers ob- 

 ovoid ; connective produced, acutely triangular. FEMALE : perianth-segments 5, inner 

 gradually smaller ; styles 2, combined below, branches very tortuous. Capsule - 

 by 1-1 5- in. including the wings : much as that of B. rubro-venia. The whole plant is 

 much less hairy than B. barbata and the allied species : the capsule is glabrous and 

 its body is less than half the diameter of the pubescent capsules of B. Griffithii. 



37. B. brevicaulis, A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 350 ; stemless, leaves cor- 

 date broad-ovate obtuse or scarcely acute, petioles scape flowers and ovary 

 glabrous or very nearly so. 



KHASIA; Terai, alt. 1000 ft.; H.f. $ T. 



Flowers and fruit much smaller than in any of the preceding species of this 

 section. Eootstock tuberous. Leaves 1-3^ in., nearly orbicular, not very unequal at 

 the base, crenate-denticulate, hardly ciliate, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs 

 above, rarely with minute pubescence on the nerves beneath ; petiole 1-3 in., succu- 

 lent ; stipules oblong, acute, glabrous. Scape 3-6 in., sometimes with a small leaf 

 above the base, weak, succulent, with few small flowers ; bracts ovate, acute, very 

 email. MALE: sepals 2, round; petals 2, narrower; stamens about 25, shortly mo- 

 nadelphous, anthers oblong ; connective much produced, obtuse. FEMALE : not seen. 

 Capsule | by ^ in., recurved, styles deciduous ; two smaller wings very narrow, 

 broader wing descending its upper margin concave very thin ; dehiscing by 4 lines 

 one on either side of each of the two narrower wings. Seeds short-ellipsoid. This 

 species resembles in habit many of the sections Parvibegonia and Knesebeckia, and 

 is very unlike any Platycentrum with a produced connective. 



