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much longer ; edgoa eub-entire or sliglitly remotely and obacuroly crc- 
nate; breadth 1'5 to 3 in,; length (from hme of largest lobe to apex) 
3'3 to 7 in. ; upper surface glabrous, fclie lower minutely scaly ; main- 
nerves 7, radiating from the base, some of them branching, rather 
prominent below ; petioles 1 to 3 in. long. InJI.oreseenc3 axillary or ter- 
miuftl, slender, longer than the leaves, with a few lax filiform dicho- 
tomous spreading few-flowered branches, bracts in pairs, ovate-lanceo- 
late, '1 to '15 in. long, Fhnoers pure white, the stamens yellow. Male 
'35 in. across ; sepals% oblong-ovate, blunt : petals 2, similar but- smaller ; 
stamem in a globular mass ; anthers obnvate, shoi't with bi'oad emai-- 
ginate inappendicalate apices. PrmaIjK perianth of 5 unequal obliquely 
oblong pieces ; styles united into a simrt eolanan, above divided into 
numerons crowded awns. Gapsule *75 in. broad (to the end of the 
wings), and "4 in. from base to apes, glabrous, 2-cGlled : the 2 lajteral 
ivingf* triangular, acnte, the postorioi' wing^ oblong, tapering a little to 
the blunt apex, more thim twice as long as the lateral. 
Peiuk ; King's Colledar 8289. 
A spQcvBs allied to B. vatiam, A. DC, but witli more entire leaves. 
7. Begonia thaipikcsensts, King n. sp. Rhizome long, creeping, 
rooting at intervals, wire-likes rnsty-yilloug. Jjeaves rotund-reniform, 
the edges minutely and rather remotely dentate, tho basal sinus mostly 
obliterated by the overlapping of the auricles ; both surfaces scaly 
the lower more distinctly so and rusty toraentoso on the 6 or 7 radiat- 
ing aub-promineut nerves; length 1'25 to 2 in.; breadth 1-5 to 225 
in, ; petioles unequal, 1 to 4 in. long, densely rusty-tomentose. Pedmichs 
4 to 9 in, lotTi!^, slender, sparsely rnsty-villoua, bearing ono or iwo 
remote pairs of small lanceolate bracts and near the apex 3 to 5 slen- 
derly pedicellate pink flowers on sloudor branches. Male flowers ; sepals 
2, aub-rotatid, '15 in. long; petals 2, smaller, oblong; stamens numeroua ; 
anthers oborate, the apex blunt and eniarginate, the filaments short. 
Female perianth of 5 aneqnal pieces, the largest most external : style 
short, thick, vvith2 stout arras and short thick tviristed stigmas. Gapsule 
2-celled, -5 in. bimd (t^tlie ends of the wings) j all the wings trian- 
gular, sub-equal. 
Pkrak; Scortechiuil4;79 I Wrajj 1774; King's Colleclor 2 8^11. 
A apftcies alHefl to B, simmta, Wall., bnt differing by the creepjug rhizome, 
, non-apioalate leaves, rusty- toraen to sg petioles and pedunclea, 
8. Begonia guttata, Wall, Cat. 3671 A. 8tsm succulent, short, 
weak, bearing about two thin obliquely ovate-reniform glabrous nearly 
entire leaves with obliqne cordate bases, and snbaeuto apices; tlie 
nerves about 5, radiating fi'om the base, prominent, sparsely hairy ; 
