108 TENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA- PhyteUIUCl. 



receptacle from the top of each cell. S,tigma three-lobed. Capsuk 

 three-celled. Seeds numerous. , 



1 . P begani folium, Roxb. hort. beng. 85. 



Creeping, woolly. heaxei alternate, semicordate, serrate. Ra*> 

 cemes axillary, secund, recurvate, Bractes, cuneate. 



A native of Pulo-Penang, where Mr. W. Roxburgh found it in 

 forests shaded by trees and shrubs, and with flowers aud ripe seeds 

 in June and July. 



Stems somewhat dichotomous, round, fleshy, spreading on the 

 ground, and rooting at the insertion of the leaves, the younger parts 

 a3 well as the petioles and racemes clothed with a harsh, ferrugin- 

 ous, woolly pubescence. — Leaves alternate, petioled, semicordate, 

 (as in some species of Begonia), serrate, acute, pretty smooth ; 

 length six or eight inches, breadth about half the length. — Petioles 

 from one to two inches long. — Stipules none. — Racemes axillary, 

 solitary, secund, revolute, twice the length of the petioles.— 

 Flowers short-pedicelled, alternately arranged in two rows on the 

 anterior side of the raceme; while two rows of alternate, cuneate, 

 ■woolly bractes occupy the posterior side. — Calyx one-lobed ; tube 

 gibbous, and growing to the lower half of the germ. Border of five, 

 sub-orbicular, woolly, permanent segments. Corol one-petalled, ro- 

 tate, tube very short, and united with the calyx into one envelope 

 •which closely embraces the upper part of the germ ; border of five, 

 oblong segments, alternate with those of the calyx, and double their 

 length, withering. — Filaments five, short, inserted partly on the tube 

 and top of the germ. Anthers oblong. — Germ inferior, oblong, 

 three- celled, each cell containing numerous ovula attached to a long, 

 free, linear receptacle, which is united, by a slender pedicel, to the 

 top of the cell. Style very short and thick. — Stigma concave, with 

 a thick fleshy three-lobed margin. — Capsule oblong, clothed with 

 the woolly tube of the calyx, and crowned with the segment* of its 

 border, as well as the withered corol, three-celled, (in what manner 

 they open I have not been able to ascertain.)— Seeds very numer- 



