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tomentose calyx, with nearly triangular acute lobes, 10 stamens, with slender elon- 

 gated filaments and small oblong or emarginate anthers, and an acute abortive hairy 

 ovary; pistillate scattered at the base of the upper aments below the staminate 

 flowers, solitary, in the axils of acute bracts, furnished with minute lateral bractlets, 

 and composed of a G-lobed ovate calyx, with rounded lobes, inclosed in the tomen- 

 tose involucral scales, 6 stamens, with abortive anthers, an ovate-oblong 3-celled 

 ovary, 3 elongated spreading light green styles thickened and stigmatic at the apex, 

 and 2 anatropous ovules in each cell. Fruit an oval or ovate nut maturing at the 

 end of the second season, 1-seeded by abortion, surrounded at the base by the 

 accrescent woody cupular involucre of the flower, marked at the base by a large 

 pale circular scar, the thick shell tomentose on the inner surface. Seed red-brown, 

 filling the cavity of the nut, bearing at the apex the abortive ovules; cotyledons thick 

 and fleshy, yellow and bitter. 



Pasania is intermediate between the Oaks and the Chestnuts, and, with the excep- 

 tion of one California species, is confined to southeastern Asia, where it is distributed 

 with many species from southern Japan and southern China through the Malay 

 Peninsula to the Indian Archipelago. 



Pasania is from the vernacular name of one of the Java species. 



1. Pasania densiflora, Orst. Tan Bark Oak. Chestnut Oak. 



(^Quercus densiflora, Silva N. Am. viii. 183.) 



Leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, rounded or acute or rarely cordate at the 

 base, occasionally rounded at the apex, repand-dentate, with acute callous teeth, or 

 entire, with thickened revolute margins, coated when they unfold with fulvous 

 tomentum and glandular on the margins, with dark caducous glands, at maturity 

 pale green, lustrous and glabrous or covered with scattered stellate pubescence on 



the upper surface, rusty-tomentose on the lower, ultimately becoming glabrous 

 above and glabrate and bluish white below, 3'-5'long, |'-3' wide, with midribs raised 

 and rounded on the upper side, thin or thick primary veins and fine conspicuous 

 reticulate veinlets, persistent until the end of their third or fourth years; their 

 petioles stout, rigid, tomentose, ^'-f ' long; stipules brown and scarious, hirsute on 

 the outer surface. Flo^wers in early spring and frequently also irregularly during 



