1902.] U- King — Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan FenittsuJa. 59 
2 25 in. to length : stipules lanceolate or oblong, '75 in. long. Inflorescence 
leaf-opposed, shorter than the leaves^ slender; the female flowers near 
its base^ the malo on ahoi't branches on its upper half. Males 2 to 'Sin. 
aoroas; sepals 2, rotund; petals 0; fttamens nmnerons, broadly oblong 
or obovate^ rainntely apicnhite; filaments short. Female ^manf/i-seg- 
ments 5. Styles three, bifid, the arras twisted. Capsule 3-cel!erl, about 
"8 in. long and equally broad, dehiscing by two filita on each face, the 
three wings equal, narrow, oblong, "25 in. wide. Diy- in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. I, J 60. B. repanda^ Bl. Erinra. PI. Jav, T, 97. DiplocUmum repan- 
dum^ Kto. Begon. 7Z, Jlegonia Wrayi, Hems, in Joarn. Bot. for 18S7, 
203. 
Perak; ScoHecMni and King's CoUector, many niimbors. Malacca ; 
Hervetf, Selangosi ; Ridleif 8589. Pahang ; Ridley 2246. Negri Semba- 
LAN; Sidley 10028, Prnano; Ouriis 7094 — De-stiub. Sumatra, Java. 
B. homhycina, Bl, (Ennm. P], JaT. 97) is posaibly identical with tliia; it has 
liBen reduced here by De Candoila smd part of it is no doabt bo redncible. Undtur 
B. hombycina however have bean distributed HpeoimouH of an allied apecios with 
larger Hownrs in short spreading c^rmes. WUioh ol the two plants blame intended 
as hiR B. iombycina, it in impaaaible from hU sborb description and in the absenoe of 
authentic speeimenj} to determioe. 
3. Begonia (sopteroidisa, King n. ap. Canlescent^ 3 feet high', 
glabroias. Learns thin, very obliquely ovate»lauceolatG acuminate ; the 
base aeu.fce on one side of the petiole but; with a broad round anncfe 
on the other^ the edges remotely lobulate-deutate ; lower surface with 
very minute white scales ; raain-nervea 7, radiating from the bnse, 
rather prominent beneath ; length 3*5 to 4"5 in. ; breadth 1*2 to 1*5 in. ; 
petioles unoqaal, to 3 5 in long. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acate, '5 
to -75 in. long. Pedtmcles slender, axillary^ about an inch long and 
bewaring abont two flowers on long slender pedicels and one aub-seasile. 
Flowers pink, large. Males; seyrais 2, rotund -oblong, blunt, 75 in. 
long; petah 2 similar but only "5 in. long; slameus inserted on an 
elongate anthopbore, the anthers quadrate, 2-groved, truncate, only 
about half as long as the slender filaments. Females nearly as large as 
the males; shjle short, tliick, divided into 3 slender, bifid spiral .spread- 
ing branches. Capsules about '75 in. in length and breadth, 3-celled, 
its wings narrow oblong, thin, membranous, the posterior narrower than 
the lateral, 
• Perak ; on Gunong Bramban, elevation 5,000 feet ; TTrajr 1548, 
A ffpeclcg in leavea capflttles and habit reaembling B. isoptera, but with mnch 
larger flowers. 
4. Begonia aiKQAiA, Wall. Cat. 3680. Shortly canlescf^nt (from 
2'5 to 12 inches hig}t) the rootstock tuberous. Leaves either broadly 
