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(3) 0. SiLHETENSis. {Alph. Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 277. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial, tuberous, stemless : petioles long, 

 velvety: leaves obliquely ovate, acute, cordate, palmately 8-nerved, 

 scattered with a few short hairs on both sides, slightly denticu- 

 late : stipules lanceolate, acuminate : peduncles many times 

 shorter than the petiole, velvety : males many -flowered at the top, 

 females few-flowered: sepals of males ovate, concave, velvety ex- 

 ternally : petals 2, shorter, obovate : female flowers not bracteo- 

 late : lobes 4, oblong, outer ones larger : ovary oyoid, obtusely 

 4-lobed, subcordate at the base, velvety. 



Silhet mountains. 



GENTJS II. BEGONIA. 



Slonoecia Polyandria. Seas : Syst : 



Deriv. In honour of M. Michael Begon, a Frenchman and 

 promoter of botany. 



G-BN. Char. Male elowebs : sepals 2 : petals usually 2, 

 sometimes none, rarely 3 — 7 : stamens sometimes more or less 

 monadelphous by the concrete filanients : anthers usually elon- 

 gated, laterally dehiscing in two divisions, sometimes shortened, 

 or the cells dehiscing towards the top, Female elovo!es : lobes 

 often 6, or 3 — 2, or 6 — 8, outer ones usually larger : styles 3, 

 very rarely 5 — 4, more or less cohering at the base, caducous, 

 2-forked or auriculately 2-lobed : ovary externally 3-ribbed or 

 winged, 3-celled : placentae from the inner angles entire, or 

 2-parted : capsule usually unequally 3-winged, greater wing 

 ascending, dehiscence lateral or stretching to the base. — Herbs or 

 undershrubs, or shrubs, furnished with a tuber stalk or stem, 

 sometimes subscandent : leaves penninerved or palminerved, den- 

 tate or undivided, occasionally lobed, teeth usually bristly, lower 

 side - of the leaf often pale-dotted : stipules and bracts nearly 

 similar, persistent or caducous : cymes axillary, rarely lateral, 

 often many times dichotomous, bisexual : flowers white, rose, more 

 rarely red, very seldom yellow. 



(1) B. MINIMA. {Bedd.) 

 Ident. Beddome in Madras Journ. Lit. July 1864. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves radical, rhomboid-ovate to cordate-acumi- 

 nate, bristly crenate, long-petioled, furnished above with a few 

 weak hairs, beneath glabrous, pellucid-dotted : scapes longer than 

 the leaves, with one leaf near the base : peduncles dichotomous or 

 alternate, bracteated, several-flowered : male flowers 4-petaled, 

 2 inner petals narrower: females 5-petaled: capsule 3-winged. 



Moist rocks at Devalicottah, in Wynaad. 



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