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Capsule 0.5 cm. long, turbinate, cover with few tubercles 

 bearing hairs (hairs deciduous) ; sepals, six, as long or 

 shorter than the oblong rounded valves. 



Most nearly allied to S. fruticosa of Gunong Tahan. 



30. Medinilla perakensis, Stapf. 



Distrib. — Perak mountains. 



31. Medinilla Clarkei, King. 



This form differs from the typical plant in its larger, thinner 

 lanceolate pointed leaves. In most other forms the leaves 

 are obovate, rounded ; it appears, however, to vary 

 considerably in the form of the leaves according to local 

 conditions. It occurs on many of the mountains of the 

 Peninsula. 



32. Phtllagathis ttjberculata, King. 



Distrib. — Perak, on Bajang Malacca. 



This splendid plant is very unlike any others of the species 

 referred to this genus, from which it should probably he 

 removed. King describes the stem as short. It, however, 

 attains the height of six feet. 



BEGONIACE^. 



33. Begonia monticola, sp. nov. 



A glabrous herb with a creeping rhizome. Leaves herbaceous, 

 ovate, inaequilateral, apex acuminate denticulate, the base 

 with two shortly unequal rounded lobes, the larger 1 cm. 

 longer than the shorter one ; margins obscurely denticulate, 

 distinctly so on the apical point ; nerves, 10, five rising from 

 the base, the others from the midrib ; 10 cm. long, 6 cm. 

 wide, the point 1 cm. long ; petiole 14 cm. or more long. 

 Scape, red, fleshy, 16-28 cm. long. Flowers few in the 

 cyme. Male flowers, four petalled, two petals oblong obovate, 

 two inner ones smaller but somewhat similar, anthers very 

 shortly apiculate. Female flowers of four rounded, obovate, 

 nearly equal petals, white ; the whole flower, 3 cm. across. 

 Capsule, 3-ringed, one wing broad, rounded 1.5 cm. long 

 and as broad at the base, the others smaller bluntly 

 triangular, 1 cm. long. 



This species is allied most closely to B. paupercula, King, but 

 differs in the presence of the two smaller petals, absent in 

 that species in the male, and the nearly equal rounded petals 

 of the female flower. The f i-uit closely resembles that of 

 B. Klossii, Ridley, and so does the curiously dentate tip of 

 the leaf, but the unequal leaf base separates it fi-om that 

 species. 



