256 BEGONIAS OF BORNEO. 



Capsule i inch long, cylindric swollen shortly beaked, 

 wings 3 equal narrow i inch across, sides straight 

 narrow to apex and base, slightly ; i inch across the 

 two wings. 



Sarawak Eejang (Haviland 2946). 



B. Bractei (Bsgoniae) Biirbidgei. Sfcapf. I.e. 165. 



A tall branched plant 6 to 8 feet tall with ovate 

 acuminate oblique leaves, glabrous, a short terminal 

 panicle of rUrge white flowers 1| inch across, with large 

 persistent greenish white bracts. Capsule semiorbicular 

 an inch across the truncate top, the wings broadest at 

 the upper angles rounded 



Kinabalu at 7600 feet (Haviland 1706) and at Kiau 

 (Barbidge). 



The biggest flowered Begonia I have seen from Borneo. 

 A plant collected at Tambusan by Haviland at 5000 

 feet on Kinabalu is rather more slender with smaller 

 bracts but apparently the same, as Dr. Haviland suggests. 



B. rubida, n. sp. 



Stems tufted succulent about 3 feet tall slender 

 glabrous. Leaves distant ovate inaequilateral acute, 

 base cordate glabrous succulent 8 inches long, If inch 

 wide, margins almost entire, nerves radiating from the 

 base about 5, petiole 2 inches long. Bracts of long 

 obtuse i inch long caducous. Inflorescence panicled 

 loose terminal radies flexuous branches slender. Brac- 

 teoles obovate convolute i inch long rounded truncate 

 edges glandular dentate crowded. Male flowers s inch 

 across. Sepals semiovate dark red, petals 2 narrower 

 and shorter linear oblong. Stamens crowded yellow 

 aciniform. Female flowers solitary on the lower 

 branches ovary semiovate with 3 equal rounded wings 

 i inch long red sepals 2 ovate blunt rounded. Petals 

 3, 2 nearly as large as the sepals oblong, one linear sub- 

 acute. Styles connate for more than half their length 



J our. Straits Branch 



