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petiole and on the other expanding into a broad rounded auricle^ tho 
edges miimtely dentate, rarely with email lobes besidos ; uppei- Boi-face 
with numerous cooical papilloe each bearing a coarse carved bair 
flattdoed at the base ; under surface with a few scattered flattened hairs 
especially on the nerves ; main-nerves 7, radiating from the base, promi- 
nent beneath ,* length 'S'b to 5*5 in, ; breadth 2'5 to S o in. ; petioles 
unequal 3 to 6 in. long, with a few flexnoae hairs near the apex. 
Feduncles longer than the petioles, slender, glabrous, 1- to 3-fl:owered, 
Flowers on rather long s tender pedicels, pink. Majlbs ; sepals 2, 
narrowly oblong-ovate, obttise, "8 in. long-, petals 2, narrowly oblongs 
blunt, '5 in. long ; stamens linear*oblong, apicalate, the filaments nn. 
equal the centiml the largest. FeMAiiE perianth unknown ; styhs 2, 
short, 2-branched, branches divided into manjf flat twisted lobes. Cap- 
siih '5 in. long and about 1'5 in. broad (to the ends of the wings) ; the 
lateral wings quadrate-ovate, obttise, about "4 in. long ; the posterior 
oblong, blunt, I in. long and "4 in. broad. 
Pbrak ; at elevations of from 3,000 to 6,700 feet, Wrmj 318, 349, 
427 ; King's Oollector 8077. 
The upper eiurfaoe of the leaves is dark greeny the nerres being oolonred ; the 
undet surface is red of various tints atid the flower-atalks are pale orirasoo. 
19. Begonia Lowiana, King n. sp- Caulescent ; 3 feet high ; 
stems and branches covered with coarse fl!esuose glandular hairs. Leaves 
mostly very obliquely reniform ; but some of the caaline ovate and 
nearly equal-sided acute, the basal sinus deep, the edges with a few 
very shallow lobes closely and rather minutely dontate-aerrate and 
shortly cilia te ; both surfaces coarsely rusty -pubeecent, the hairs flexuoso 
compressed and with dilated bases, the lower also with small white 
scales; raain-nerves about 9, radiating from the base, promitient and 
densely villoas ; length 3 to 4*5 in. ; breadth 4 to 7 in, ; petioles un- 
equal, stout, villous like the nntter surface of the ribs and midrib, from 
•4 in. long in the upper leaves, to 4 in. long in the lower. Cyvies few- 
flowered, leaf -opposed and terminal, shorter than the leaves when in 
flower, mach larger when in fruit ; bractslovate-lanceolate, opposite, 
ciliate. Flowers pink or white, pedicellate. Male about *75 in. across • 
Bepals 2, ovate-oblong, sub*acute, '5 in. long ; petals 2, oblong, much 
smaller. Stamens numerous, oblong, blunt, without apical appendages ; 
filaments short. Female, the perianth of 5 pieces decreasing in size 
inwards ; styles 2, deeply bifid and spiral. Capsules '65 in, long and 
twice as broad to the end of the wings j lateral wings very nari-ow 
(about '15 in, broad), the posterior oblique, broadly ovate, btuut, '9 in. 
long and 3 in. broad. 
