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reniform and blunt, or sometimes with a short broad abrupt apiculus, 

 the basal sinus deep and the edges wavy and minutely denticulate or 

 crenate ; or reniform-cordate, gradually tapered to the sub-acute apex, 

 the margins slightly lobulate-dentate, the lobes denticulate, the basal 

 sinus small : length of the reniform over 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 5 to 8 

 in., of the ovate-reniform 1*5 to 3 in.; breadth 1 to 3 in.; petioles of 

 the radical leaves 1 to 3 in. ; of the cauline "5 to 2'5 in. ; both surfaces 

 with numerous adpressed white stellate hairs, the lower with small 

 oblong white scales also; main-nerves 7 to 11, radiating from the base, 

 prominent on the lower surface; petioles unequal, '5 to 3 in. long, pube- 

 scent. Stipules small, oblong-lanceolate, slightly oblique, blunt, glab- 

 rous. Inflorescence 3 to 8 inches long, sparsely stellate-puberulous ; the 

 peduncle very slender; branches few, short, filiform, few-flowered; 

 bracts minute ("05 to *1 in. long) bluntly lanceolate, rather densely ad- 

 pressed-pubescent externally, the upper in whorls of three. Flowers 

 small, pink, glabrous. Males about 2 to "25 in. in diam. : sepals 2, 

 roundish; petals 2, narrower, obovate ; stamens about 20, monadel- 

 phous; anthers obovoid, connective not produced. Female perianth- 

 segments 5, the inner gradually smaller. Styles 2, combined for half 

 their length, stigmas, lunate. Capsule about *3 in. broad and slightly 

 ]onger, the posterior wing the largest. Seeds ovoid, shining, brown, 

 deeply pitted. A. DC. Prod. XV, Pt. I, 351; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng., 1877, Pt. II, 103 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 650.' 

 Dlploclinium biloculare, Wight Ic. 1811. Begonia guttata, elongata et 

 subrotuada, Wall. Cat. 3671 B (not A), 6291, 6293. 



PexanG; Wallich; Phillips; King's Collector 2269, 4860; Curtis 390, 

 481, 3098 ; Ridley 9229. Malacca ; Maingay (K.D.) 674. Peeak; King's 

 Collector 4971. — Distrib. Burma ; Griffith, Parish. 



5. Begonia andamensis, Parish ex Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. II, 650. Like the reniform-leaved form of B. sinuata, but the 

 hairs on the surfaces of the leaves scanty : the inflorescence usually 

 longer and its peduncle and branches much stouter ; the bracts glabrous, 

 longer ("35 to '5 ia.) and blunter and the male flower3 ('5 in. across) 

 and capsules ("6 in. across) longer and more numerous than those of 

 B. sinuata. 



As daman Islands ; Parish; King's Collector. — Distrib. Burma. 



This onght probably to be regarded as a variety of B. sinuata. Actual speci- 

 mens of the two look more different than written descriptions lead one to suppose ; 

 I therefore retain this as a species. 



6. Begonia debilis, King n. sp. A slender weak herb, about 6 to S 

 inches hi^h, caulescent. Leaves thin, narrowly reniform, blunt or sub- 

 acute ; the base unequal, rounded at both sides but one auriculate and 



