612 OXL. CUFULIFERZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Quercus. 
ree, 60-80 ft.; branches and leaves beneath rufously tomentose. Leaves 
4-6 in, hard, nerves sunk above strong beneath, cross-nervules distinct on both sur- 
faces. Fruiting spikes 4-8 in., very stout, tomentose. Cups shortly | stoutly 
peduncled, young with long spinous incurved bracts, mature $-i in. diam.» " pith 
incurved margins, silky within, and short pubescent bracts. Nuż much broader 
long, top conical with a long stout umbo. 
*** Nut turbinate. 
94. Q. Curtisii, King mss; leaves subsessile elliptic-lanceolate 
obtusely caudate base acuminate entire pale above white or silvery beneats , 
nerves 8-1C pairs obliquely ascending slender, cups small quite flat M 
narrower than the hoary hemispherico-turbinate conic-topped nut, bracts 
much appressed. 
PERAK, King’s Collector. PENANG, Curtis, King. . . . ves 
Branches pustular, pale, glabrous, Leaves 6-8 in., thinly coriaceous, nervo 
hardly impressed above; petiole j-1 in., (stout. Fruiting spikes long-pe ee sat 
Cups crowded, 4-3 in. diam., wavy, margin entire not or hardly incurved, pubesce 
within. Nut 3-2 in. diam., broader than long, umbo short. 
Sect. IV. CYcCLOBALANUS, Endl. Male spikes stiff, erect. Styles as 
in Pasania. Invol. of fruit cupular; bracts connate, forming entire o 
toothed ridges, zones or belts (as in Cyclobalanopsis). Leaves quite entire 
in all. 
* Nut normally longer than broad. 
35. Q. eumorpha, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, ii. 107 ; For. 
Fl. ii. 487 ; glabrous, leaves long-petioled undulate elliptic-oblong obtuse of 
obtusely acuminate entire base acute shining above pale beneath, nerves 07 
pairs very faint arched, cups sessile campanulate or turbinately hem- 
spheric embracing half the broad glabrous umbonate nut, bracts confluent 
in indistinct belts. 
MARTABAN and TENASSERIM ; on Moolyet, alt, 6-7000 ft., Kurz, &e. brown 
A small scraggy evergreen tree. Leaves 3-4 in., thinly coriaceous, pale lender 
when dry, minutely reticulate beneath ; nerves as impressed stri; above, very sien 
beneath; petiole 4-3 in. Cups narrowed to the base, 3 in. diam. Nut j in. long.— 
I have seen no good fruit. 
36. Q. conocarpa, Oudem. in Versl. en. Mededeel. xii. 206; Annot: 
Cupulif. Jav. 18, t. 10; branches tomentose, leaves small short-petiole 
elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate obtusely caudate entire base acute puberulous 
above with tomentose casta whitish or brownish finely tomentose benea j- 
with 12-14 pairs of very strong arched nerves, cups stoutly peduncled hemi- 
spheric with a flat or intruded base half embracing the conico-hemisp2er 
umbonate pointed silky or glabrous nut, belts few thin appressed hoary. 
A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 93; Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 113; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. 
Gart. Berl. iv. 230. 
PERAK and SINGAPORE, Kunstler, Scortechini.—D1stTR1B. Sumatra, Jan 
Borneo. lous 
A tree, 60-80 ft. Leaves 8-4 in., coriaceous, very shining though pube in. 
above, cross-nervules strong beneath; petiole à in., tomentose. Cups nearly 
diam, Nut as long and as broad. 
37. Q. Bennettii Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 857 ; Suppl. 348 ; Ann, Mus” 
112; pions, leaves broadly elliptic abruptly obtusely cuspidate idque 
narrowed into the slender petiole, nerves 10-12 pairs arched very fain 
