636 txvi. BEGONUCEiE. (0. B. Clarke.) IBegonia.. 



thick, succulent, equally 2-partite; styles 4, 2-fid nearly from the base, stigmas 

 winding spirally -with 3 turns. Fruit ^— § in. diam pendent; walls very thick, suc- 

 culent, indehiscent or- finally dehiscent at the angles. Seeds shortly ellipsoid, some- 

 what oboToid.^Cathcart Ic. Ined. represents the cells of the ovary as occasionally 

 3 which is not improbable, or his artist may have confounded £. CtmdoUei (No. 4) 

 with the present species. 



2. B. slllietensls, C. B. Clarke; stemless, inflorescence shorter than 

 the petioles, leaves ovate finely denticulate hardly serrate or lohed, fruit glohose 

 thick-waUed 4-celled densely covered with shaggy brown hair. B. gigantea, 

 WM. Cat. 3677 B. Casparya ? silhetensis, A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 277. 

 Begonia sp., WM. Cat. 91OT. 



Kh&sia. Mts. ; WalUch. East Benoai,; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2569). 

 Cachab; Keenan. 



Sootstock short, thick, fibrous on all sides, scarcely tuberous. Leaves 6 in., 

 broadly ovate, not acuminate, shaggy on both suirfeces in Griffith's examples, only 

 slightly hairy in Wallich's. Petiole 6-18 in., hirsute in Griffith's examples, less 

 hairy in Wallich's. Scapes 2-4 in., 1-7-flowered. Male : sepals 2, hairy without, 

 j in. in Griffith's examples, smaller nearly glabrous in WaUieh's ; petals 2, smaller' 

 than the sepals, glabrous; stamens numerous, shortly monadelphous, anthers nar- 

 rowly oblong. JB^MALE : styles bifid with tortuose stigmas. Fruit J in. and 

 upwards in diam., globose or ovoid, without angles or protuberances. Seeds many, 

 shining brown, shortly ellipsoid. — Griffith's No. 2569 (with which Wallich's No. 3677 

 B agrees), differs considerably in hairiness and in size of the flower from Wallich's 

 No. 9.107 on which A. DC. founded his Casparya ? silhetensis : two species are pos- 

 sibly here mixed, but the material is not sufficient to justify a new species. 



3. B. tessarlcarpa, C. B. Clarhe ; nearly stemless, inflorescence much 

 shorter than the petioles, leaves ovate nearly glabrous sinuate-denticulate hardly 

 serrate, fruit subpyramidal 4-celled laxly hairy, carpels acutely keeled and 

 ending upwards in a short linear patent horn. 



Assam ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2586). 



Creeping stem 0-2 in. Leaves 2-4 in.-, broadly ovate, glabrous or minutely pu- 

 bescent on the nerves beneath ; petiole 6-12 in., pubescent upwards. Inflorescence- 

 2-4 in. Flowers much smaller and fruit less succulent than in S. BoxburghU. Frmt 

 about i in. diam., slightly pubescent. — This solitary example may be possibly a 

 stunted example of B. Eoxhtrghii, from which it does not differ in any essential, 

 particular though it is very unlike it in general aspect ; the seeds are alike. 



4. B. Inflata, C. B. Clarke ; stem lengthened, inflorescence axillary, 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate glabrous or nearly so sinuate-dentate scarcely serrate,, 

 fruit 3-celled. 



Daejeeling, alt. 3000 ft.; C. B. Clarke. Bhotan? Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 

 2587). 



Erect, 3^ ft., branched. Leaves 4 by IJ-lJ in., acuminate, very unequally 

 cordate ; petiole J-| in. ; stipules lanceolate-subulate, glabrous. Mowers in short 

 axillary dichotomous cymes from several axils on each branch ; bracts lanceolate- 

 subulate. Male : sepals 2, white, obovate, glabrous ; petals 2, linear-obovate ; sta- 

 mens about 60, scarcely monadelphous ; anthers narrow-oblong; connective produced, 

 obtuse. Female : perianth of 4 segments : ovary 3-ceIled, placentas 2-fid. Fruit 

 j in. diam., trigonous or almost triquetrous; carpels round, as it were inflated, with 

 a narrow line down the back, glabrous or nearly so, indehiscent or probably at 

 length dehiscing down the ridges as in B. Boxbwrghii. Seeds short, ellipsoid some- 

 what obovoid. — Griffith's examples are in good fruit but the locality is doubtful : his 

 ticket is marked "Umb. ascent. 4 day." 



