LXVI. BEGONIACEiE. 
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Begonia.] 
axillary peduncles, white. Male -5 in. across. Sepals 2 ovate, 
obtuse. Petals 2, obovate as large. Stamens in a head; anthers 
linear-oblong, blunt. Female, stigmas 2, bilobed, spiral. Fruit 
green, pulpy, *5 in. long with 3 rounded ridges ending in points, 
not winged, 3-celled. Hab. Dense forests. Selangor, Ginting Bidai ; 
Menuang Casing (Kloss). Pahang, Telom (Ridley). 
(2) B. Forbesii King , l.c. 58. 
A dwarf plant hardly 6 in. tall, rhizome rusty villous. Leaves 
round ovate acuminate, slightly equally cordate, edge toothed, 
glabrous above, white-scaly beneath, nearly glabrous; nerves 9, 
1-25 to 2-25 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; petioles 1*5 to 3 in. long. 
Stipules lanceolate, villous *3 in. long. Peduncles slender, 1 to 
3*5 in. long with 1 terminal flower or branched 2 to 5 flowers. 
Bracts obovate oblong. Flowers pink; pedicels red. Males, 
sepals 2, oblong blunt, -15 in. long. Petals 2, smaller. Anthers 
obovate, tips emarginate. Females, sepals round ovate. Petals 
oblong. Styles 3. Capsule 3-celled opening on each face; wings 
sub-equal triangular blunt. Hab. Perak, Sungei Larut (Wray), 
rare. 
(3) B. Rajah Ridl. Gard. Chron. xvi. 213, fig. 31; Kew Bulletin, 
1895, App. ii. 34; 1914, p. 329 - 
Dwarf plant. Leaves radical oblique cordate, green with red- 
brown blotches, edge ciliate, 3 to 4 in. long, 3 to 6 in. wide. Stipules 
lanceolate-oblong. Peduncles hairy, 3-5 to 7 in. long, laxly cymose 
at tip. Flowers small, rose pink, -7 in. across. Males, sepals 2, 
obovate, orbicular, blunt. Petals 2, narrow oblong. Stamens on 
a convex torus. Females, sepals 2, elliptic-ovate. Petals 1 to 2, 
narrow oblong. Capsule -5 in. across with 3 oblong rounded equal 
thin wings. Hab. Tringganu. Brought to Singapore Botanic 
Gardens in 1892 and cultivated there. 
(4) B. isoptera Dryand, Smith’s Ic. 43. B. Wrayi Hemsl. 
Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 203. 
Caulescent, 3 ft. tall, nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong 
to lanceolate, base cordate, very unequal, coarsely dentate; nerves 
prominent, 3*5 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles -5 to 2-25 in. 
long. Stipules 75 in. long, lanceolate or oblong. Panicles leaf- 
opposed, slender; females at base, males at top, 3 to 6 in. long. 
Males -2 to -3 in. across. Sepals 2, round, pink; anthers oblong 
apiculate. Female, sepals and petals 5; styles 3, bifid. Capsule 
3-celled, -8 in. long and as broad, oblong, base usually broad and top 
broad retuse; wings 3 equal narrow, -25 in. wide. Hab. Common 
in lowland woods in damp spots. Pahang, Tahan River. Malacca, 
Sungei Hudang (Goodenough). Selangor, Ulu Gombak; Ginting 
Simpai ; Semangkok. Negri Sembilan, Perhentian Tinggi. Perak, 
Ulu Kerling; Goping (Kunstler) ; Ulu Kenering (Wray). Penang, 
Penara Bukit; Batu Hitam (Curtis). Legeh (Gwynne-Vaughan). 
Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 
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