Begonia.'] lxvi. begokiace^. (0. B. CJftrice.) 641 



small, lanceolate. Peduneles 4-10 in., nearly glatrous, laxly diohotomous ; bracts 

 j-^ in., lanceolate, sometimes fimbriate ; flowers not many, small, white tinged with 

 rose. Make : sepals 2, broad-elliptic, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs ; petals 2, 

 naKowly oblong ; stamens about 25, monadelphous, anthers pboyoid, oonnectiye not 

 produced. Fe mat . r : peiianth of 5 or 4 segments; styles 3, somewhat combined, 

 «aoh divided into two curved branches. Capmle j by i in. including the wings, 

 one wing very long, margins of all extended h6rizonta,lly from the summit of the 

 cajpule, dehiscing on all three faces. Seeds short-ellipsoid. — Kurz (in Jimrn. As. 

 Snc. 1877, pt. ii. 107) keeps S.parvuUflora "a caulescent wholly glabrous herb" 

 distinct from S.velutina"a, scapigerous herb with leaves pilose above:" but A. 

 DCs type of B. parmdiflora (marked by him B. Lobhiana) has the leaves decidedly 

 pilose above and the stems not more caulescent than some of Parish's B. vduUnit,. 

 The only difference between the two is that in B. velutma the leaves are often 

 beautifully variegated and doubly serrated; but not always Parish's specimens. 



17. S. gremmlpara, Sook. f. lU. Ilim. PI. t. 14 ; caulescent, leaves 

 incise-serrate or lobed, pedvmcles axillary short few-flowered,^ large round per- 

 sistent bracts on each pedicel near the flower, seeds with adpressed paBiUae. 

 A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. ioSU. 



SiKziu, alt 6000-11,000 ft.; plentiful round Darjeeling. 



Rootstock tuberous.. Stem 6-16 in., succulent, glabrous. Lewoes ovate-cordate, 

 acuminate, often with acute, or lanceolate lobes, glabrous beneath, often pilose above ; 

 petiole 1-3 in. ; stipules ovate. Feduncles short, axiUary, little divided, pedicels 

 longer ; flowers pendulous, medium-sized, white or with rose stripes, nsusflly mo- 

 .niecious. .]VIai,e: sepals 2; petals 2, narrower; stamens numerous, shortly mona- 

 delphous, anthers obovoid, connective not produced. Feiuxb : perianth-segments 5, 

 nearly equal, persistent ; styles 3, nearly distinct, broader upwards, stigmas lunate. 

 Capmle | by ^ in. including the wings, so^lewhat inflated, with a medial Une on each 

 face ; irings nearly equal, upper miargins horizontal. — In some of the axils the 

 peduncle instead of producing flowers is very shortly once or twice divided, each 

 branch terminating in 4 quadrangular cups, each .paoked closely with oblong vivi- 

 parous bulbils. Alph. DC. gives dioecious as a character of his section Fvtzeyaia, 

 but this, the tmly species of that section is,, as all other Indian Begonias, monoecious 

 or occasionally dioeeious. 



18. B. cordifolla, Thwaitet Enum. 129 ; stemless, leaves orbicular-cor- 

 date crenate-serrate, capsule with 3 subequal not broad wings. A. DC. Prodr. 

 XV. pt. i. 328 ; B. Amotfaana; A. DC. I. c. 323* Diploclinium Amottianum and 

 cordifolium, Wight Ic. 1. 1815, 1816. 



South Deccan Peninsula ; Courtallum ; Wight. Ceylon ; Thwaites. 



Eootstock tuberous. Leaves 1^3 in. diam., rarely subacute, nearly equal at the 

 base, pilose above, laxly pubescent, on the nerves beneath ; petiole 2-6 in., laxly 

 pubescent; stipules f in., ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. Sccepe 6 in., repeatedly 

 dichotomous ; flowers medium-sized, numerous ; bracts J in,, lanceolate. Maie : 

 sepals 2, round ; petals 2, smaller, narrow ; stamens numerous, shortly monadelphous, 

 anthers obovoid, connective not produced. Fewat.b : perianth-segments 6-4- (3- in. 

 Wight's Icon S-Iobed) ; styles 3, nearly separate, divided half way up into two curved 

 branches. Capstde | by f in. including the wings, perianth deciduous, styles per- 

 sistent ; wings narrow, upper margin rounded or shortly horizontal, dehiscing on all 

 three faces. Seeds shortly ellipsoid. — Wight finally united his J). Amottiamim with 

 YaiD.nordifolmm. Alph. DC. separated them again on the sole ground thatD. Arnot- 

 Hamim had 4 segments to the female perianth, 2). eordifolimn only 3. But in Wight's 

 specimens of B. eordifoUum all the female flowers examined have 6. The var. 

 insulcms of A. DC. founded on Mr. Thvaites' No. 3S84 has the leaves acute with 

 the nerves beneath more shaggy than in the type. 



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