260 BEGONIAS OF BORNEO 



B. Pyrrha, n, sp. 



Stem creeping slender woolly. Leaves distant orbi- 

 cular, base cordate 2 inches across, margins hairy with 

 rather pale long hairs upper surface sprinkled with hairs 

 under surface glabrous except the veins covered with 

 wooly appressed hairs, petiole i inch long wooly. 

 Panicle lax few branched and few flowered 3 inches long 

 hairy. Bracts in pairs convolute oblong denticulate i 

 inch long, green. Male flowers nearly sessile, |- inch 

 across. Sepals 2 6tfr5ng obtuse pink. Petals 2 obovate 

 oblong shorter white. Stamens 13-14 filaments free 

 to the base as long as the linear oblong anthers. Female 

 flower pink, sepals and petals oblong obtuse snbcqual. 

 Styles separate about halfway, stigmas 3 capsule oblong 

 elliptic with three broad subtriangular obtuse wings i 

 inch across the wings, i inch long. 



Sarawak, Saribas, Haviland 2034, 1848. 



The flowers both male and female are very shortly 

 pedicelled, the toothed bracts being longer than the 

 pedicel. B. repens, Miq., from Java and Borneo might 

 possibly be intended for this but the flowers are not 

 described and it is impossible to be certain what was 

 intended. 



B. calcarea, n. sp. 



Rhizome long creeping, over- 4 inches covered with 

 appressed hairs roots long and wiry. Leaves erect from 

 the rhizome with stout hairy petioles 6 inches long 

 densely brown hairy, blade peltale almost reniform 

 rounded 6 inches wide, 4 long base rounded margins 

 sinuate with distant teeth, nerves palmate spreading 

 about 8 ; blade pale green (when dry) above glaucous 

 beneath, fleshy, sprinkled with short stiff hairs above, 

 backs glabrous except the main nerves dark brown hairy- 

 Inflorescence on a very short peduncle rising directly 

 from the rhizome covered with scale like leaves. Male 

 flowers not seen. Capsule obovoid in outline with 3 



Jour. Straits Branch 



