1 900,] G, King — Material for a Flora of the Malayan Penimula. 41 
Penanq ; WalUch Cat. 4089 ! Gnffith 2298 ! Mamffay 780 (Kew 
Disfcrib.) in sliady, damp places, 1500-3000 ft., StoUczka, Hnllet 196 ! 
Emg*s Coll 1284 ! Palloh Baliung, Gwiis 411 ! Sinqafore (?) LohhS2^ 1 
Roxburgh Hays of Uie S. mohiccana, " Habitat in insulia Molaccanis." nia 
doacrlptioo is oxtretiiely short and iiiaaflioient, and thm'e does not Beem to have been 
a speciraeD in Jiis Jim-bariiam nor was it figitreii by him. It is very improbablo that 
the plant he ciescribod wna identical with the Penaug plant, if he receSved it really 
from the Moluccas, OS the difttribut ion of most Bpeoies of the section Hexadon ia 
very local, and no speoimenB, leferrablo to 5. payadoxa, Iiave been discovered, bo 
far, aaet of the Malay Feuinaula. On tlie other baud, it ia ponsible that RostbDrgb 
mmnt 8. malaccana instead of " S. moluecana '* ami imidis ntalaecanis for 
" ins.moluceanis" as the editors of his Flora Tndica put it. Thora is at least nothing 
in his description which would conti-adiot the aaaumpiion that his brief diagnosis 
wasdrawti npfrom the Ponatig plant. In view of this utit;ertainty wo have preferred 
to follow Naodiu and to eonsider rtojcbnrglv'a iS. wo^ittftfflna aa a " speoiea dubia " 
and adopt Kaudin'a name for the Pemng plant. 
34, SoNEBiLA BEGONUEFOLiA, Blume IE Flora (183J), 490. An 
ascending, ueufilly mnbranched Kerb, 2-6 in. liigli, modointely hairy with 
the exception of tbo often glabroaa upper side o£ the leaves ; haira o£ 
the fttem^ petioles and the inflorescence rnfouBj flexaona, more or less 
gpreading, of the leaves confined to the eerres aiid veins of the nnder- 
eide, often ecanty, very short. Stem rather slender, rooting below. 
Leaves very dissimilai', the larger of each pair pefcioled, more or leas 
asymmetrical, obliquely elliptic, subacumiuate, unequally cordate at the 
base with a rounded lobe ('2- '3 in. long) on the outer and a much 
amaller on the inner side, entire or more or less obtusely seiTulate, 
ciliolate^ membranous, dark-green above, pale brown (when dry) 
beneath, 3-4 in. by l'7-2-3 in., G- aiib-7-nerved from near the base 
(with 3-4 nerves in the broader half), with usually very oonspicuoma 
BubhoriKontal transverse veins; petiole '4-1 '2 in. long; small loaves 
ovate to rotuudate, acute, cordate, very small, distinctly petio!ed, 
Oymes terminal and axillaiy, peduncled, dense, at length up to '8 in. 
long, deciduously bracteate | peduncle slender, up to I'S in. long; bracts 
linear-oblong, ciliolate, up to '1 in. long, deciduous ; pedicels '07-'l iu, 
long, Cahjx cam panu late-oblongs teeth broad, triangular. Petah 
ovate, acute. Anthers short, oblong, obtuse. Fruit shortly turbinate, 
•lg-,'22 in. long and wide, muricate'tuberculate, tubercles mther coarse, 
acute, mostly passing into short fine bristles* Korth. iu Verb. Kat, 
Geach. Bot. 248, t. 54 ; Naudin in Ann. Sc. Nat, Ser. 3, XV, 32-2 ; Triaua 
in Tmns. Linn. Soc, XXVIII, (1873), 77. 8. moluccana, Beun. PL Jav., 
Ear. 215 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 562; C, B. Clarke in FL Brit. Ind. I, 
562; Cogn. iti DC. Monogr. YII, 608; Stapf in Ann, Bot. YT, 312 
(all references under S> imluccana^ p.p.). 
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