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MERRILL. 
strongly inequilateral, apex slenderly long-acuminate, base broad and 
rounded on one side, narrow and acute on the other, not at all cordate, 
the margins distantly and irregularly sharply dentate or denticulate, 
scarcely lobed ; basal nerves 5 or 6, the lateral ones above the basal nerves 
two or three on each side of the midrib; petioles 5 to 16 mm long; 
stipules lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, brown, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 
deciduous. Panicle's axillary and terminal, rather few-flowered, mostly 
about 5 cm long, the staminate and pistillate flowers apparently in dif- 
ferent inflorescences. Staminate flowers pink to nearly white, about 2.4 
cm in diameter. Sepals 2, orbicular-ovate, rounded, about 12 mm in 
diameter, with about 13 faint, slender nerves. Petals none. Stamens 
about 30; filaments 1 to 2 mm long; anthers narrowly obovoid, 1 to 1.2 
mm long. Pistillate flowers few, usually two on each branchlet, each 
subtended by a pair of thin, membranaceous, deciduous, brown, boat- 
shaped bracteoles which are about 13 mm long, and, when spread, about 
5 mm wide; pedicels slender, glabrous, about 1 cm long. Lobes 5, ovate 
or narrowly ovate, acuminate, reticulate, about 1 cm long. Capsules 
turbinate, the apex truncate, the base acute or rounded, about 2 cm wide, 
1.3 cm long, equally 3-winged, the wings reticulate, rounded at the outer 
upper corner. Placentae 2-partite. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, in forests at an altitude 
of about 1,800 m, For. Bur. 4563 M earns d Hutchinson (type), May, 1906; District 
of Davao, Todaya, Copeland 1284, April, 1904. 
§ DIPLOCLINIUM. 
34. Begonia hernandioides sp. nov. 
Herba subglabra, caulibus stipulis brunneis ovatis acuminatis circiter 
1.5 cm longis obtectis; foliis longe petiolatis le viter inaequaliter subor- 
bicularibus vel orbiculari-ovatis, peltatis, basi late rotundatis, apice acum- 
inatis; inflorescentiis foliis subaequilongis ; floribus roseis, circiter 1.5 
cm diametro; capsulis inaequaliter 3-alatis. 
Stem creeping, rooting, covered with numerous, large, brown, ovate 
or oblong-ovate, membranaceous, glabrous, or very slightly ciliate stipules 
1.5 to 2 cm long, about 1.2 cm wide. Petioles 7 to 18 cm long, glabrous. 
Leaves peltate, slightly inequilateral, suborbicular or orbicular-ovate, 
7 to 9 cm in diameter, membranaceous, glabrous, shining, radiately about 
9-nerved, the base broad, rounded, the apex somewhat lateral, acuminate, 
margins entire or nearly so, the petiole attached at 1.5 to 2 cm from the 
basal margin. Peduncles glabrous, 10 to 25 cm long, dichotomously 
branched above, the inflorescence at most 6 cm wide, comparatively few- 
flowered. Staminate flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter, pink. Sepals 
3, orbicular to orbicular-ovate, rounded. Petals 2, narrowly obovate, 
7 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, obtuse. Stamens about 30 ; filaments 1 to 
1.5 mm long; anthers obovate, blunt, 1 mm long. Capsules about 1 
