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GrUDon<4- Berumbau at 6,000 feet elevation 



This is a most exquisite plant. Its long hanging peduncles, with 

 pure white deliciously fragrant flowers, would make it attrac- 

 tive anywhere. Only one plant was seen on a tree overhang- 

 ing the track up Gnnong Berumban. Its nearest ally in the 

 Peninsula is M. jjemkensls, King. 



77. M. VENUSTA, King. 



Common at Telom, on trees by the river. A large- spreading 

 shrub. Flowers white. 



78. M. CBASSINERVIA, Bl. 



On a tree by the Batang Padang River. 



7!:>. Pachycentria tuberculata, Kvrtli. 

 Telom, un trees by the camp. 

 Disirih. — Tenasserini and Borneo, not rare in the Peninsula. 



BEGOXIACE.E. 

 80. Begonia (§ Casparya) Roxburuhii, Dc, 



Stem about 6 feet tall, stent succulent glabrous, dull red. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate, with a long point, base unequally 

 cordate, margin sparingly toothed, 6-8 inches long, 2 inches 

 Avide, longest lobe of leaf rounded, |-| inch long, glabrous, 

 light green ; nerves five short ones from the base, the upper 

 ones from the midiib. Flowers in clusters on short axillary 

 peduncles, ] inch long, few, white ; male \ inch across. 

 Sepals two, ovate obtuse. Petals two, equally large, obovate. 

 Stamens numerous in a head ; filaments distinct half the 

 length of the linear oblong blunt, not apiculatc anther. 

 Females, sepals and petals as in male, ovary bluntly trigonous. 

 Stigmas two, each bilobed with spirally-twisted linear lubes. 

 Fruit green-pulpy, ^ inch long, trilobed, lubes rounded 

 at the bank not winged, but with a ridge ending in a short 

 blunt process. Seeds minute brown, with few large oblong 

 reticulations. 



Tolom Woods, also Giuting Bidei in Selaugor. 



Distrib. — Nepal, Buriuah and Assam. 



This is the first of the fleshy-fruited Begonias from the 

 Peninsula. I cannot distinguish it from the Indian B. Box- 

 hiinilii! (of which, however, I have seen no specimens) excej)t 

 that the leaf is lanceolate rather than ovate. 



81. B. CARNOSULA, It. S2). 



A succulent acaulescent plant, with a creeping rhizome. Leaves 

 ovate cordate, oblique, the lobes almost or quite equal short 

 rounded with an entire margin, 4-5 inches long, 3-4 

 inches wide; nerves six from the base of the leaf, the two 



