PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF BEGONIA. 
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20 cm long, distinctly brown-ciliate, the hairs more or less spreading, 
often curled. Peduncles longer than the leaves, ultimately glabrous, the 
inflorescence, including the peduncles, 30 to 35 cm long, dichotomously 
branched, 10 cm wide or less, the bracts broadly orbicular-ovate or reni- 
form-ovate, rounded, brown, about 2.5 mm long, usually somewhat wider, 
rounded, distinctly punctate-glandular, the bracteoles similar but smaller. 
Staminate flowers white or pink, about 1.5 cm in diameter. Sepals 2, 
broadly ovate or suborbicular, rounded, 6 to 7 mm long, more or less 
punctate with scattered, small, black dots, with about 11 slender nerves. 
Petals narrowly obovate, -6 to 7 mm long, 3 mm wide, obtuse, narrowed 
below, 6- or 7-nerved. Stamens more than 50 ; filaments 1 mm long 
or less. Capsules equally 3-winged, 8 to 10 mm long, 10 to 12. mm wide, 
retuse at both ends, the wings reticulate, rounded, 3 to. 4 mm wide. 
Placentae 2-partite. 
Mindoro, Baco River, McGregor 28h, April, 1905 ; near Lake Naujan, For. Bur. 
6777 6867 (type) Merritt, April, 1907. Palawan, near Iwahig, Bur. Sci. 779 
Foxworthy, April, 1906, Elmer 12857, March, 1911. Luzon, Province of Tayabas, 
Bur. Sci. 13361 Ramob, Bur. Sci. 13131 Foxworthy and Ramos. 
A species allied to Begonia rhombicarpa A. DC., and related forms, differing 
especially from DeCandolle’s species in its larger size, brown-ciliate petioles and 
leaves, and especially in its capsules being retuse at both ends and the wings 
rounded. 
43. Begonia longinoda sp. nov. 
Herba petiolis pedunculis et subtus foliis ad nervos adpresse brunneo- 
setosis, caulibus prostratis internodiis'elongatis; foliis usque ad 10 cm 
longis, oblique ovato-subreniformibus, basi plus minusve ' obliquis, cor- 
datis, apice acuminatis, margine leviter irregulariter dentatis vel dentato- 
lobatis ; floribus masculinis sepalis 2 orbicularibus, petalis 2 multo angus- 
tioribus; capsulis ellipsoidei's utrinque rotundatis, 10 ad 12 mm longis, 
anguste aequaliter vel subaequaliter 3-alatis. 
Stems creeping, rooting at the nodes, somewhat appressed brown-setose, 
the internodes elongated, 4 to 7 cm long. Peduncles, petioles and lower 
surfaces of the leaves on the nerves appressed-brown-setose, the petioles 
and peduncles subequal, 12 to 18 cm long. Leaves 6 to 10 cm long, 
oblique, ovate-subreniform, base prominently cordate, apex shortly acumi- 
nate, margins irregularly dentate or dentate-lobed, the basal nerves 7 
to 9, radiating. Inflorescence dichotomously branched, comparatively 
few-flowered, the lower flowers female, the upper ones male. Male flowers 
white or pink. Sepals 2, orbicular, 7 to 8 mm long, rounded. Petals 
2, narrowly oblong, as long as the sepals. Stamens about 80, the anthers 
obovoid, about 0.8 mm long. Capsules ellipsoid, 10 to 12 mm long, 8 
to 10 mm wide, rounded at both ends or the base subacute, equally or 
subequally 3-winged, the wings narrow, 2 to 3 mm wide. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Tagcauayan, in forests, altitude about 200 m, 
Bur. Sci. 13372 Ramos, March, 1911. 
