36 NEW AND RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



peduncles 1 in. long. Flowers pinkish-white. Sepals of male 

 flowers broad ovate rounded, .75 in. long and as wide; petals 

 oblong-lanceolate, blunt, .3 in. wide. Stamens in a globose 

 head on a short stalk. 



Perak. Gunong Kerbau (Robinson).. Pahang. Gu- 

 nong Tahan (Ridley). 



This plant is rather puzzling. It seems closely allied to 

 B. venusta, King, with which species it occurred ; but instead 

 of having a creeping rhizome with leaves and peduncles arising 

 directly from it, it has long erect stems with long internodes 

 and large stipules with a long-setaceous point. In this, except 

 for the form of the stipules which have no seta, it resembles 

 Pi. megaptera. I cannot distinguish King's B. megapteroidea 

 from B. venusta. Is it possible that this plant sometimes 

 develops a caulescent stem, and that it is a form or state of 

 B. venusta? The specimens are neither very complete. 



Begonia eiromischa, n. sp. 



Rhizome short, stout. Leaves fleshy, obliquely reniform 

 peltate, acuminate, dark green, glabrous 3 — 3.5 in. long and 

 as wide, nerves ?' : petiole 2 — 3 in. long, with dense thick red 

 wool. Peduncles glabrous, red, about 5 in. long. Flowers 

 on two branches, small, .5 in. across, rose pink. Male sepals 

 2, broad, orbicular, rounded. Petals very narrow, linear. 

 Style of female flower trifid ; branches bifid. Capsule .6 in. 

 long lateral wings very short, posterior rather thin, broad, 

 oblong, rounded .3 in. long and as wide. 



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Penang. Pulau Butong (Curtis 1028). 



I have seen specimens of this and a good coloured draw- 

 ing made in the Penang Gardens. It is undoubtedly near 

 B. TTasskarli but differs conspicuously in the woolly stalk of 

 the leaf. In the drawing the fruits are figured as equally 3 

 angled and bright red; perhaps they were not ripe when drawn. 



Begonia rhoephila, n. sp. 



Phizome stout, creeping, 1 in. long. Leaves nearly or 

 quite glabrous, lanceolate, erect, caudate-acuminate, base decur- 

 rent on the petiole, sparsely distantly toothed, apex closely 

 toothed, nerves 4 pairs, often hairy on the underside, midrib 

 always hairy with appressed hairs, 5 — 6 in. wide, petiole 1.5 — 4 

 in. long, glabrous or hairy. Peduncle 1 — 2 in. long in flower, 

 stouter and up to 12 in. in fruit, glabrous. Flowers few, short 

 pedicelled white tinted on the back or all pink. Sepals of 

 the male flower oblong-ovate, .3 in. long, .2 in. wide. Petals 

 narrower, oblong. Stamens numerous, anthers oblong, api- 

 eulate as long as the free filaments. Female flowers 5-petalled. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



