NEW OE BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 43 



plant from the living plants brought from the eaves, 

 where it grows abundantly. A small succulent herb with 

 a creeping not swollen rhizome, four to 6 inches tall ; the 

 stem pinkish, completely glabrous except for a few glan- 

 dular hairs on the edges of.j'oung leaves, and some scat- 

 tered processes, (trichomes) on the upper surface. 

 Leaves ovate acuminate blunt cordate at the base unequal- 

 ly bilobed, nerves 5 to 7 ; 4 inches long 2| to 3 inches" wide, 

 polished light green, or in some plants darker with white 

 spots, petiole 2 to 3 inches long pinkish. Peduncle 3 

 inches long, with a side branch and small leaf about half- 

 way. Cyme terminal small, and few flowered. Bracts 

 lanceolate white with red veins. Male flowers. Sepals 

 2 orbicular ovate obtuse, refuse or entire white with red 

 nerves, J inch long. Petals 2 smaller, spathulate white 

 refuse. Stamina! column globose. Anthers subglobose 

 not apiculate. Female flower ^ inch across. Sepals and 

 petals 6 or 7 very unequal, 4 obovate white lined with red, 

 the others narrower subspathulate white. Styles 2 

 separate from near the base yellow. Fruit with three 

 unequal wings, two short one long oblong subtriangular 

 blunt half an inch long. 



On Limestone rocks Caves near Kwala Lumpur. 



It will be noticed that King's B. paupercula differs 

 in description in the absence of petals in the male, and 

 apiculate stamens, and the larger number of perianth 

 lobes in the female. 

 Begonia clivalis, n. sp. 



Small succulent herb, with a short rhizome 4 to 8 

 inches tall. Stems red pubescent hairy, once or twice 

 branched above. Leaves orbicular ovate to ovate cordate, 

 lobes nearly equal, tip rounded thin textured, margin 

 undulate with few short teeth, above and beneath covered 

 with stellate hairs, main nerves 7, spreading from the 

 leaf base 1-3 inches long 3 J to 3 inches wide. Petiole ^ 

 -2 inches long, densely stellate hairy. Inflorescences 3, 

 lax few flowered 2-4 inches long pubescent. Bracts lan- 

 ceolate T V inch long. Male flowers on slender pedicels 



R. A. Soc, No. 54. 1909- 



