1902.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 59 



2*25 in. in length : stipules lanceolate or oblong, '75 in. long. Injlorescence 

 leaf -opposed, shorter than the leaves, slender ; the female flowers near 

 its base, the male on short branches on its upper half . Males '2 to 'Sin. 

 across ; sepals 2, rotund ; petals ; stamens numerous, broadly oblong 

 or obovate, minutely apiculate ; filaments short. Female perianth-seg- 

 ments 5. Styles three, bifid, the arras twisted. Capsule 3-celled, about 

 •8 in. long and equally broad, dehiscing by two slits on each face, the 

 three wings equal, narrow, oblong, '25 in. wide. Dry. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. I, 160. B. repanda^ Bl. Enum. PI. Jav. I, 97. Diploclinium repan- 

 dum, Klo. Begon. 72. Begonia Wrayi, Hems, in Journ. Bot. for 1887, 

 203. 



Perak; Scortecliini and King^s Collector, many numbers. Malacca ; 

 Hervey. Selangor ; Ridley 8589. Pahang; Ridley 2246. Negri Semba- 

 LAN; Ridley 10028. Penang; Curtis 7094. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



B. hombycina, Bl, {Ennm. Fl. Jav. 97) is possibly identical with this; it has 

 been reduced here by De Candolle and part of it is no doubt so reducible. Under 

 B. hombycina however have been distributed specimens of an allied species with 

 larger flowers in short spreading cymes. Which of the two plants Blume intended 

 as his B. bomhycina, it is impossible from his short description and in the absence of 

 authentic specimens to determine. 



3. Begonia isopteroidea. King n. sp. Caulescent, 3 feet high, 

 glabrous. Lea yes thin, very obliquely ovate-lanceolate acuminate; the 

 base acute on one side of the petiole but with a broad round auricle 

 on the other, the edges remotely lobulate-dentate ; lower surface with 

 very minute white scales ; main-nerves 7, radiating from the base, 

 rather prominent beneath; length 3*5 to 45 in.; breadth 1*2 to 1*5 in. ; 

 petioles unequal, "Z to 35 in long. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acute, '5 

 to "75 in. long. Peduncles slender, axillary, about an inch long and 

 bearing about two flowers on long slender pedicels and one sub-sessile. 

 Flowers pink, large. Males; sepals 2, rotund-oblong, blunt, '75 in. 

 long; petals 2 similar but only "5 in. long; stamens inserted on an 

 elongate anthophore, the anthers quadrate, 2-groved, truncate, only 

 about half as long as the slender filaments. Females nearly as large as 

 the males; style short, thick, divided into 3 slender, bifid spiral spread- 

 ing branches. Capsules about '75 in. in length and breadth, 3-celled, 

 its wings narrow oblong, thin, membranous, the posterior narrower than 

 the lateral. 



Perak ; on Gunong Brumban, elevation 5,000 feet; Wray 1548. 



A species in leaves capsules and habit resembling B. isoptera, but with much 

 larger flowers. 



4. Begonia sinqata, Wall. Cat. 3680. Shortly caulescent (from 

 2o to 12 inches high) the rootstock tuberous. Leaves either broadly 



