178 A NEW BEGONIA FROM BORNEO.—BY H. N. RIDLEY. 
white flowers are crowded in short panicles, the females 
being two or three in number on branches at the base. 
Each flower has a pair of oblong white bracts with a short 
central tooth; so that this plant belongs to the Bractei - 
begonice group. The male flowers, only J in. wide, have 
two outer sepals and two narrow inner ones and few 
stamens. The female flowers usually have the sepals 
and petals nearly equal, the petals slightly falcate 
but otherwise similar to the sepals, and an extra narrow 
petal. The fruit is shield-shaped in outline, narrowed to 
the base, above wide, truncate, with the outer angles blunt, 
the three wings equal and very narrow. 
The plant is most nearly allied to B. Havilandii , Ridl., 
in its white bracts and in the form of flowers, but differs 
in its completely glabrous habit and its tall erect stems. 
