292 The Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
For. Bur. 9138, 9158, 9303, 9429 (type) Whitford & Hutchinson: 
Lanao District, For. Bur. 23162, 23178 Agama; Malangas, Bur. 
Sci. 36938, 3694-3 Ramos & Edaho. Basilan, For. Bur. 3435, 
3916, 6116, Hutchinson, Bur. Sci. 15436 Reillo, 18959 Miranda. 
This species is common in primary forests in various parts of 
the Zamboanga District and in Basilan. Fruiting specimens 
have been collected in July, August, September, November, De- 
cember, and January. Flowering specimens have been collected 
in December and February. What is apparently the same 
species is represented by 574 Agama, from near Sandakan, Brit- 
ish North Borneo. The local names recorded are mangasalaokag 
(Sul.), bagarbas (Lan.), and kamupang (Sul.). 
BEGONIACEAE 
BEGONIA Linnaeus 
BEGONIA DOLICHOTRICH A sp. nov. § Petermannia. 
Herba erecta, ramosa, saltern 50 cm alta, perspicue et patule 
ciliatis ; foliis inaequilateralibus, chartaceis, oblongis ad ob- 
longo-lanceolatis, 8 ad 13 cm longis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi 
lateraliter cordatis, margine irregulariter grosse dentatis, 
dentibus ciliatis, utrinque perspicue ciliatis; inflorescentiis 
circiter 5 cm longis, floribus $ paucis, sepalis 2, orbiculari- 
ovatis, circiter 1.5 cm longis, petalis, 0; capsulis solitariis, obo- 
voideis, 2 cm longis et latis, truncatis, basi abrupte truncato- 
rotundatis, aequaliter 3-alatis, perspicue ciliatis. 
An erect, branched herb, at least 50 cm high, the branches, 
petioles, leaves, and fruits conspicuously ciliate with long, 
slender, spreading, scattered, brownish hairs. Leaves thinly 
chartaceous, inequilateral, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 13 
cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, the apex slenderly acuminate, the 
base laterally cordate, one side very broadly rounded, the other 
much narrower and acute or abruptly obtuse, the margins 
rather coarsely and irregularly toothed, the primary and second- 
ary teeth terminated by rather long cilia, both surfaces with 
long, scattered, spreading hairs ; petioles 7 to 15 mm long; stipules 
oblong-elliptic, up to 1.5 cm long, somewhat ciliate, terminated 
by a long, sparingly ciliate mucro, up to 5 mm in length. In- 
florescences in the uppermost axils up to 5 cm long, somewhat 
peduncled, dichotomously branched, bearing near the base one 
or few female flowers, and above a few male ones, the bracts 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm long or less. Staminate 
flowers white, the sepals 2, orbicular-ovate or somewhat reni- 
form, rounded, up to 1.5 cm wide and nearly as long. Petals 
