(>U 0. Kiug—Malerials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [Ko. 1, 
reuifofuj aud blunt, or sometimes with a aliort broad abnipfc apiculas, 
the basal sinaa deep and fcho edges wavy and mirmtely denticulate or 
crenate; or reiiiforra-cordate, gradually tapered to the sab-acnto apex, 
the margins slightly lobulate-dentate^ the lohea denticulate, the basal 
eLuas small : length of the reniform over 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 5 to 8 
in., of the ovate-reniform 15 to S in.; breadth 1 to 3 in. ; petioles of 
the radical leaves 1 to 3 in, ; of the cauline '5 to 2*5 in- ; both sarfacea 
with namerous adpressed white stellate hairs, the lower with small 
oblong white scales also; main-nerves 7 to 11, radiating from the base, 
prominent on the lower surface; petioles unequal, '5 to 3 iti. long, pube- 
scent. SHptiles small, oblong-lanceolate, slightly oblique, blunt, glab- 
rous. Injhrescence 3 to 8 inches lonj^, sparsely steilate-pnheriilous ; tlie 
peduncle very sl€jider ; branches few, short, fifiform, few-Oowered; 
bracts minute ('05 to *! in, long) bluntly lanceolate, rather densely ad- 
pressed-pabescent externally, the upper in whorls of three. Flowers 
sraali, pint, glabrous, Malks about '2 to '25 in. in diam. : sepals 2» 
roundish ; petals 2, mirrower, obovate ; siamens about 20^ monadel- 
piious; anthers obovoid, connective not produced. Femalk perianlh- 
segmcuts 5, the inner gradually smaller. Styles 2, combined for half 
their length, stigmas lunate. Capsule about '3 in. bmad and slif^htly 
longer^ tlie posterior wing the largest. Seeds ovoid, shining, brown, 
deeply pitted. A. DC. Pi^d. XV, Pt. I, 354; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng., 1877, PL II, lOfi; Ciarko in Hook% fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, G50. 
DiplocUnimn bUocularc, Wight Ic. 1814, JBeijonia guttata^ elongata at 
subrotuttda. Wall. Cat, 3G71 B {not A), G291, G293. 
Pbnang ; Wallich - Phillips; King's OoUector 22G9, 4860; Curtis 390, 
481, 3098; Ridley 9229. Malacca ; Maingay (K.D.) 674. FEB,hK ; Eint/s 
Collector 4071. — Distrib. Burma ; Qnjfiih, Parish, 
5. Begonia andamensis. Parish ex Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 
Ind. II, 650. Like the reniforni-leaYed form of B. djiuata^ but the 
hairs on the surfaces of the leaves scanty ; the inflorescence uswally 
longer and its peduncle and branches much stonter ; the bracts glahrons, 
longer ('35 to '5 irn.) and blunter and the male flowers ('5 in. across) 
and capsules ("6 in. across) longer and more namerous than those of 
B. sinnata. 
Andaman Islands; Parish; King's Collector. — Distrib. Burma. 
This ought probably to be rcifarderl as a variety of B. sintwfa. Acfcaal speoi- 
mena of the two look more different than written deaeriptiona lead one to Boppose f 
1 therefore retain this as a ^peeiea, 
G. Beoosia DEBiLia, King n. sp. A slender weak herb, ahoat 6 t-o 8 
inches hij?h, cauloseent. Lmves thin, narrowly reniform, blant or sub- 
acute ; the base uneipial, rounded at both sides but one auriculate and 
