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MERRILL. 
sometimes tinged with red or purple, straight or somewhat falcate, 
slightly inequilateral, the base narrowed, acute or obtuse, not cordate, 
the apex rather slenderly long-acuminate, the acumen denticulate, margins 
distantly, irregularly dentate-lobed, the lobes small, broad, acute, the 
base 4- to 6-plinerved, ' the nerves ascending, the lateral ones above the 
basal nerves distant, 2 or 3 on each side of the midrib, ascending; 
petioles rather slender, about 5 mm long ; stipules brown, membranaceous, 
deciduous, lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 cm long, the apex ciliate-acuminate. Stam- 
inate inflorescence terminal, paniculate, rather diffuse, 6 to 9 cm long, 
the flowers small, pink, rather numerous, their pedicels 1 to 2 mm long. 
Sepals 2, ovate, obtuse or subacute, 5 mm long, faintly 7 -nerved. Petals 
none. Stamens about 30, the anthers 1 mm long, the filaments much 
shorter. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, membranaceous, brown, acum- 
inate, deciduous, the former about 8 mm long, the latter 1.5 mm in length. 
Pistillate flowers not seen, apparently axillary at the base of the staminate 
inflorescence. Capsules solitary, nodding, obovoid in outline, their 
pedicels about 1 cm long, in the upper leaf-axils and at the base of the 
staminate inflorescences, equally 3-winged, the apex truncate, the base 
acute, about 1.8 cm long and wide, the wings about 5 mm wide. Placentae 
2-partite. 
Mindanao, Province of Surigao, near Surigao, Bolster 24-8, February and 
April, 1906, altitude about 125 m, said by the collector to be common. 
A species manifestly allied to Begonia contracta Warb., but readily distin- 
guished from it and other allied forms by its leaves being more or less narrowed 
and acute or obtuse at the base, not at all cordate. 
10. Begonia palawanensis sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, plus minus ramosa, usque ad 80 cm alta, ramulis sparse 
setosis; foliis breviter petiolatis, membranaceis, usque ad 14 cm longis, 
inaequilateraliter oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis, base abrupte angustatis, 
acutis vel obtusis, apice longe acuminatis, margine in parte superioribus 
lobato-dentatis denticulatisque; paniculis in axillis superioribus, 3 ad 5 
cm longis; floribus masculinis roseis, sepalis 2, ovatis, circiter 5 mm 
longis; petalis nullis; capsulis 1.5 cm longis, aequaliter 3-alatis, apice 
truncatis, basi acutis vel subrotundatis. 
An erect branched herb glabrous except for the branches which bear 
few, scattered, brown, setose hairs. Leaves short-petioled, membranace- 
ous, inequilateral, oblong to oblong-ovate or oblong-obovate, 8 to 14 cm 
long, 3 to 6 cm wide, base narrowed from below the middle, acute or 
obtuse, apex prominently acuminate, margins above the middle somewhat 
lobed-dentate, with interspersed smaller sharp teeth, the base 3- or 5- 
plinerved, nerves ascending, the nerves above the basal ones 2 or 3 on 
each side; petioles 5 to 12 mm long; stipules membranaceous, oblong 
