22 



A siniilcir fiite iK'iVll Bcyoitia Rajali, a native of Tivngyuuii. 

 I have retained Di'. King's name B. ptwchiro, as Stapf.'s 

 B. decora is ])racticallj a nomen muJum. To add to the cou- 

 f vision there is another Begonia decora from Brazil, mentioned 

 in the Supplement to "Nicholson's Gardener's Dictionary." 



83. B. VENUSTA, King. 



Wliat I take to be this species with beautiful white flowers, 

 3 inches across, occui'red on the flat plain, north of Grunong 

 Berumban. 



84. B. PAVONINA, V. Sj). 



Ehizome creeping red, short. Leaves ovate cordate acuminate, 

 or acute, base unequally lolied, lobes rounded, margin entire, 

 glabrous, except when very young, when they are sparingly 

 ciliate on the edge ; nerves nine, including the midrib from the 

 base of the leaf, 5 inches long, 4 inches wide, largest lobe, 

 1 inch long, light satiny green above when young, eventually 

 deep green shot with peacock blue, the whole leaf appearing 

 often of a superb blue, beneath red ; petiole, 7 inches long, red, 

 glabrous, succulent. Flowers few on a peduncle, 5-6 inches 

 long, and glabrous. Bracts linear oblong soon caducous. 

 Male flowers, sepals two ovate obtuse unequal (^ inch or 

 more long, | inch wide), white-tinted pink. Petals narrower, 

 linear, oblong obtuse, white, often tinted with pink, i inch 

 long, ^ inch wide. Stamens in a small sessile or very 

 shortly- stalked head, yellow; filaments slender distinct; 

 anthers olilong obtuse, slightly narrowed towards the base 

 (apiculate when dry). Female sepals two, ovate, white. 

 Petals two (rarely three). Styles two, separate about half 

 way down, divided above into two spiral arms, ovary three- 

 winged wings sul)equal. Fruit with two small and one 

 large elliptic wings. 



Telom Woods, abundant. 



A most beautiful plant, tlie leaves of which in most specimens 

 are of an exquisite peacock blue above and red beneath. 

 This colouring is not similar to the blue iridescence which 

 appears on Selaginella Willdenovii, Phyllagathis rohindifolia 

 and other plants in wet corners of woods, but seems to be 

 normal to this plant. The leaves, when young, are of a bright 

 light green, passing later into the l)right blue. The flowers 

 are 1 inch or more across. 



85. B. EoBiNsoNii, n. sj). 



Ehizome stout fleshy, ^ inch through, with ovate sheaths. 

 Leaves ovate subacute, base unequally lobed, lobes rounded, 

 3 inches long, 2 inches wide, rather fleshy, bright green quite 

 glal)rous, polished above, dull green beneath, margins entire ; 

 nerves five to seven from the liase, midrib not distinct, all 



