856 
LXVI. BEG0NIACEA2. 
[Begonia. 
{5) B. isopteroidea King, l.c. 59. 
About 3 ft. tall. Leaves very oblique ovate-lanceolate acumin¬ 
ate, base rounded broad or the narrow side shortly acute, lobulate 
dentate, white, scaly beneath; nerves 7, 3-5 to 4-5 in. long, 1*2 to 
1*5 in. wide, green; petioles 2 to 3*5 i n - l° n g> re< ^- Stipules lanceo¬ 
late acute, 75 in. long. Peduncles 1 in. long with 2 pedicellate 
and 1 sub-sessile, pale apple-pink flowers. Males, sepals 2, 
round oblong 75 in. long. Petals 2, *5 in. long. Stamens on an 
elongate column; anthers quadrate short truncate. Females, 
nearly as large; style short, branches 3, spiral. Capsule 75 in. 
long and wide, 3-celled, narrowed at base, wings oblong, narrow, 
unequal. Hab. Perak, Gimong Brumber Pahang, at 5000 ft. 
altitude (Wray). 
(6) B. barbellata Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. x. 135. 
Plant 14 in. tall or less. Stem firm glandular-hairy. Leaves 
membranous, obliquely lanceolate-acuminate crenate serrate, base 
narrowed to a blunt rounded tip, with a few scattered hairs on the 
upper surface and the nervules hairy beneath, 5 in. long, 175 in. 
wide; petioles -1 to -25 in. long. Male flowers white, -5 in. wide 
in cymes of 2 or 3, from lanceolate acuminate hairy bracts. Sepals 
oblong. Females slightly larger; ovary hairy from lower axils. 
Capsule oblong, base shghtly narrowed of three equal narrow 
wings, *4 in. long, *25 in. wide. Hab. Sandy woods. Kelantan, 
Chaning Woods; very local in sandy spots (Ridley). 
(7) B. Curtisii Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 106. 
B. Haniffii, Burkill, l.c. 79, p. 103. 
Tuberous; stem erect, red 2 to 8 in. tall, glabrous. Leaves 
ovate, unequally cordate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 6 in. long, 2 in. 
wide, green to brown spotted silver; petioles 1 to 2-25 in. long. 
Cymes terminal or axillary. Bracts ovate, white veined red. 
Male flowers 75 in. wide; sepals 2, oblong or orbicular. Petals 2, 
oblong-linear, white or pink-tinted. Stamens in a round head. 
Females with 4 to 5 sepals and petals. Styles 2; ovary 2-celled. 
Fruit -6 in. long, 3-winged, x wing longer, obtuse, triangular, *5 in. 
long. Hab. On limestone rocks. Lankawi (Haniff). Dislrib. 
Kasum (Curtis). 
This charming plant dies down completely in the dry season. 
(8) B. sinuata Wall. Cal. 3680; Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.T. 
ii. 650; King, l.c. 59. 
Rootstock tuberous. Stem 2-5 to (rarely) 15 in. tall. Leaves 
reniform blunt or ovate acute, deeply cordate or entire, edges wavy 
or denticulate, 1*3 to 6 in. long, 1 to 8 in. wide, often purple, 
appressed white-hairy; nerves 7 to 11 ; petioles -5 to 3 in. long 
pubescent. Stipules small oblong-lanceolate glabrous. Panicle 
slender, 3 to 8 in. long, puberulous. Flowers few, pink or white, 
glabrous. Bracts minute, -05 to *1 in. long. Males *2 to *25 in. 
