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small, ellipsoid, testa reticulate-rugose. — Distbib. About 7 species,, 
all from the Malay Archipelago and Peninsula. 
Leaves markedly serrate, very unequal-sided . . ... 1. P. begoniafolium . 
Leaves entire or only slightly dentate, nearly or quite equal- 
sided 
Stem short, flower spikes from upper axils, calyx and corolla 
usually 5-lobed . . . . . . . . 2. P. Scortechinii. 
Stem elongate, flower spikes from lower axils, calyx and 
corolla usually 4-lobed . . . . . . . . 3. P. Ridleyi. 
1. Pentaphragma begonias folium, Wall. Cat. 1313. A short- 
stemmed fleshy herb, with flexuose rooting stems and few branches 
covered with crispate ferruginous woolly hairs. Leaves alternate, 
ovate, the base obliquely excised on one side, cordate on the other, 
shortly acuminate at apex, 6 to 10 in. long, 4 to 5 in. broad, coarsely 
serrate, sparsely crispate-villous ; midrib thick, near the excised side, 
main-nerves 1 on the excised side, 4-5 on the other, the nerves again 
branching outwards ; petiole -3 to 1 in. long, crispate-villous as are the 
nerves beneath. Inflorescence a short, 1 to 4 in. long, seorpioid, shortly 
peduncled spike, with 2-ranked flowers between ovate membranous 
bracts '25 in. long, axillary in the uppermost leaves; flowers dull 
yellow supported by an oblong or spathulate villous bracteole -2 in. 
long, -1 in. broad. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, ovoid, crispate 
villous ; lobes 5 obtuse, rounded, recurved, shorter than the tube, 
crispate villous without, glabrous within. Corolla white, campanulate, 
5-lobed, the lobes spreading and recurved, marcescent, oblong obtuse 
glabrous. Stamens 5, free, -1 to -125 in. long; anthers oblong, filaments 
dilated at base. Ovary turbinate, 3-celled ; ovules many, on axile 
placentas ; style short, stigma cylindrically peltate, obscurely 3-lobed. 
Fruit a berry, dehiscence not known ; seeds very many, testa pro- 
minently reticulate. DC. Prod. VII. 495 ; Hook. f. and Th. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. II. 26; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 568; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. XLVI. ii. 210 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 437 ; Baillon 
Hist, des Plantes, VIII. 323, t. 152-154; Sclionl. in Engl, and Pr. Nat. 
Pflz. — Fam. IV. 5, 60, fig. 37. Phyteuma bcgonifolium, Boxb. Hort. 
Beng. 85, FI. Ind. I. 505 ; Jack in Hook. Bot. Misc. I. 276, t. 57. 
Penang: Wallich 1313; Maingay 2266 (K.D. 712); Stoliczka ; 
Deschamps ; Hullett 200; Kunstler 1598. Perak: Scortechini 336 
(part)-, Wray 3668. Singapore : Bo6&.— Disteib. Mergui, Griffith. 
A plant of the undergrowth in dense shady forests. Bidley (Trans. 
Linn. Soc. III.) (1893, 315) says that it “ grows on rocks along the 
Tahan Biver, and also far in the woods, in rocky valleys, common.” 
2. Pentaphbagma Scortechinii, n. sp., King & Gamble. A 
