650 LXVI. BEGONiACE-E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Begonia. 



above view, but there are two small ovate acute bracts placed at that point. B. 

 Finlaysoniana possibly belongs here : but the example is very imperfect and the 

 leaves are 2-3, some of them petioled. 



45. B. paleacea, Kurz in Flora 1871, 297; cauline leaf 1 obliquely 

 cordate-ovate or orbicular, petioles and inflorescence with short paleaceous 

 hairs, capsule winged below. 



MABTABAN ; Attaran Valley ; Brandis. 



An erect low herb, simple or nearly so, succulent ; rootstock tuberous. Leaf 3-6 

 in., sometimes proliferous, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, entire or deeply crenate, 

 often finely ciliate, membranous, glabrous or sometimes papillose and hairy on the 

 nerves beneath ; petiole -1 in. or ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, pilose. Cymes 

 long-peduncled, slender, few-flowered, springing from the base of the ribs of the 

 leaves ; pedicels capillary, glandular-pubescent ; flowers small, white ; bracts of the 

 male flowers ^ in., broad-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, deciduous, the female smaller, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, pilose, more persistent. MALE : sepals in., broadly round, 

 slightly hairy without ; petals a little smaller ; stamens many, monadelphous, anthers 

 obovoid, emarginate. FEMALE : styles 2, connate, shortly 2-lobed. Capsule nearly 

 in., glabrous or slightly hairy, oblong, 2-celled, 3-winged ; wings ^ in. broad, trun- 

 cate at the apex, or the medial wing twice as broad ; placentas 2-fid. The above 

 copied from Kurz, who has placed the species between B. prolifera and B. sinuata ; 

 the very imperfect specimen communicated seems B. integrifolia, No. 38. 



46. B. sinuata, Wall. Cat. 3680; caulescent, leaves cordate-ovate co- 

 vered on both surfaces by minute but thickly placed stellate hairs, capsule 

 winged below. A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 364; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 108. Diplocinium biloculare, Wight Ic. t. 1814. B. guttata, elongata, 

 and subrotunda, Watt. Cat. 3671 B, 6291, 6293. 



PINANG; Wallich, &c. TENASSERIM, Parish, &c. MALAYA; Maingay No. 674. 



'Rootstock small with small tubers. Whole plant 10 in. but more often quite 

 small, covered (except the tipper part of the cymes) with much minute stellate 

 pubescence. Stem 1-6 in. Leaves 1-5 in. diam., nearly equal at the base, denticulate- 

 sinuate ; petiole | 3 in. or ; stipules less than in., lanceolate, acuminate, stellately 

 pubescent. Cymes weak ; lower bracts lanceolate, stellately hairy ; upper often 

 quite glabrous, sometimes lobed ; flowers not very numerous, small, pink, glabrous. 

 MALE : sepals 2, roundish ; petals 2, narrower, obovate ; stamens about 20, much mo- 

 nadelphous, anthers obovoid, connective not produced. FEMALE : perianth-segments 5, 

 inner gradually smaller ; styles 2, combined half-way up, stigmas lunate. Caps^dc 

 \ by f in. including the wings ; wings from the lower part of the capsule, two smaller 

 triangular acute. Seeds short-ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid. 



47. B. and amen sis. Parish ms.-, caulescent, nearly glabrous, leaves 

 cordate-orbicular shortly petioled or the upper sessile ; capsule winged below. 



ANDAMANS and MOULMEIN ; Parish. 



Rootstock tuberous. Stem erect, whole plant 6-10 in. Leaves 1-4 in. diam., entire 

 or minutely closely denticulate, equal at the base, with few lax hairs on the nerves 

 beneath, sometimes minutely pilose above ; petiole of the radical leaves elongate, of 

 the cauline usually 0-f in. ; stipules small, ovate, acute, glabrous. Peduncles very 

 glabrous upwards ; bracts very small, ovate, acute ; flowlrs not very many, rose- 

 coloured, rather larger than in the allied species. Flowers capsule and seeds almost 

 identical with those of B. sinuata but the styles are less combined. The capsule is 

 quite membranous but shows a tendency to dehisce along either side of the narrow 

 wings, exactly as in Platycentrum : and the present species (with B. sinuata) seems 

 closely allied to the small species of that section. This species is reduced to B. 

 simtata by Kurz, but it does not exhibit the stellate hairs on the upper surface of 

 the leaf and the flowers are much larger. 



