652 ixvi. BBGONUCEa;. (C. B. Clarke.) IBegonia. 



tHgBias Innate. Capsule scarcely J by J in., membranons, crowned by the accrescent 

 pWianth. Seeds short-ellipsoid. — Col, Beddome's 3. minima jp reduced by inspection 

 of tis figure merely. Heifer's No. 2584 is in fruit and is. either this or some very 

 closely alUed species. 



62. B. canarana, Miq. Anal. Bot. Ind. iii. p. 18 ; pedicels and ovary gla- 

 DtOUs, sepals of the male ^ in. A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 356. B. ruljella, Miq. 

 in JPl. Sbhenack. 'No. 84S, not of ffam. ' 



Mangaxob, in Canara ; Sohenacker. 



Closely resembling the preceding species; but the, leaves flower and fruit are 

 rather smaller. The styles in B. canarana are combined higher up (ex A. DC.). 



C. Ovary 3-celled. Capsule memlmmous, glolmse, wingless. 



63. B. dellcatula, Parish ms ; styles long combined. 



MoTTLMEiif ; Parish. 



Sooiatock small, fibrous. Stem 5-12 in., slightly dividing, with several leaves and 

 peduncles from all the axils, glabrous, weak. Leaves 2-3 in. diam., bioad-qrbicuT 

 lar, cordate, subequal at the base, doubly serrate, very delicate, with weak scattered 

 fittbescence above ajad on the nerves beneath ; petiole of the cauline leaves long, attain- 

 ing 3-4 in. ; stipules less than ^ in., lanceolate, glabrous. Pedmides repeatedly dichoi 

 tomous, witii very many flowers ; bracts numerous, small, hyaline, subpersistent, ob- 

 long, ciliate or fimbriate, pedicels and young ovary with minute sparse lax pubescence. 

 Mmje : sepals 2,\ in., round ; petals ; stamens 20, much mon^elphons, anthers 

 Uarrow-obovoid, connective not produced. Femais : perianth of 4 segments, inner two 

 pbovate, not very narrow ; styles 3, stigmas lunate. Capsule ^ in. diam., almost 

 esactly globose, very membranous, breaking up irregularly, wingless. Seeds shortly 

 illipsoid. 



Sect. YI. Vnlplacentales. Plaeentis undivided. . Capsule S-celled 

 ■with 3 thin not very unequal wings, dehiscjng by lines within the margins of its 

 three faces. 



* Stendets, or stemmed having the peduncles long and from the v/pper axUs 

 ordy. 



64. B. fibrosa, C. B. Clarke ; cauline leaves 2 orbicular sessile with 

 many peduncles fiom the axils of each. 



jyConiAiEnr ; on limestone rocks ; Parish. 



Bootstock fibrous, no root-leaves in the dried examples ; plant fi-10 in., glabrons 

 or nearly so. Leaves orbicular, larger 6-8 in. diam., nearly entire. Peduncles rather 

 stouti as many as 7 from one BxU, minutely sparsely puberalo-pnbescent ; bracts foli- 

 aceous; lower } in., elliptic, glabrous, often petioled; upper smaller. TVfAT.n : sepals 2, 

 ^ in., ovate ; petals 2, oblong, smaller ; stamens about 10, nearly &ee, anthers short- 

 obovoid, connective not produced. Female : perianth of 3 segments ; styles 3, com- 

 bined less than half their length, each dividing into two curved branches. Capsale 

 f by J in. including the wings, upper margin of the broader wing horizontal or some- 

 what descending. Seeds small, ellipsoid. 



5S. B. tenera, Dryand. in Trans. lAnn. Soc. i. 169, t. 16 ; stemless, 

 lerfves ovate, petioles peduncles and young ovary with much lax pubescence. 

 A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 386. B. Thwaitesii, Hook Bot. Mag. 4692; A. 

 DC. I. c. 



Oetion, Walker. Fas-dom Corle ; Thwaites. 



Bootstock somewhat thick, tuberous. Leaves 2-4 in. diam., obtuse or subacute, 



