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CYCL0I3ALAN0PSIS. 



8. Quercus oidocarpa, Korth. in Verh. Nat Gesch. BoL 216. t 47. /. 18. 



Young shoots puberulous, lenticellate. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, 

 serrulate or undulate in the upper fourth ; the base acute or acuminate, sometimes 

 unequal; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, slightly 

 prominent on the under surface ; length of blade 4*5 to 7 in., breadth 1/5 to 2'5 in- ; 

 petioles *75 in. to 1 in., slender. Male spikes unknown. Female spikes solitary, shorter 

 than the leaves ; cupules sessile, obovoid or hemispheric, truncate when young, 

 cylindric-hemispheric when adult and embracing three-fourths of the glans ; 1 in. 

 in diameter and about the same in depth; lamellae 7 or 8, broad, minutely tomentose, 

 the edges of the lower boldly crenate- denticulate, those of the upper sub-entire. Glans 

 ovoid-cylindric, apiculate, minutely tomentose, 1*25 in. long and *75 in. in diameter. 

 Blume in Mus. Lugd. Bat i. 302; DO. Prod. xvi. ii. 99; Miq. Ft Ind. Bat i. 856; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat i. 115; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot Gart Bert iv. 233; Hook, fit Ft 

 Br. Ind. v. 603. 



Sumatra,— Korthals, Forbes (585); Perak (King's Collector, 3723, 8258), 

 Scortechini (acorns only); Burmah (acorns only), — Parish; Borneo,— Beccari (P. B. 1876 and 

 2919). 



Plate 21 A. — Q. oidocarpa, Korth. 1, branch with one ripe and one nearly ripe acorn* 

 pike of young acorns ; 3, half -ripe acorn : all of natural size. 



9. Quercus Lowii, nov. spec. 



Young shoots minutely cinereous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly ovate, bluntly 

 acuminate, remotely serrate in the upper half ; the base rounded or sometimes minutely 



ordate; upper surface, when old, glabrous, except the midrib, which, like the und 



face and petiole, is minutely cinereous-tomentose ; main nerves 7 pairs, slightly promin 

 below; length of blade 3 to 4 in., breadth 1-6 to 1*75 in.; petiole -6o in. Pipe cupules 



6 in. in diameter and -3 in. deep, minutely tomentose, cup-shaped, embracing only the 



fourth of the glans ; lamellae about 7, flat, crenulate. Glans ovoid-cylindric, slightly 

 apiculate; the base slightly narrowed, truncate, minutely scurfy-to 



length and '6 in. in diameter 



Borneo, on Kina Balu, at elevations of 5,000 to 6,000 feet Low. 



A tree about 10 feet high. 



I have seen only Sir Hugh Low's specimen of this very distinct species. Male 



flowers are unknown. 



Plate 21 B.— Q. Lowii, King. 4, leaf-twig with ripe fruit; 5, cupule ; 6, glans: of 



natural she. 



10. Quercus semi-serrata, JXoxb. Ft Ind. iii. 641. 



Young shoots softly fulvous-tomentose, speedily glabrous and lenticellate. Leaves 



ely 



glabrous, shining; lower 



-ub-conaceous oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, „„, 

 errate or sub-serrate m the upper half ; the base acute or acuminate ; upper surface 



glabrous. ,hn,,„c !„.„ g]aucous or glaucescent . main nerye8 „ to < 



prominent beneath; length of blade 5 to 7 in., breadth 1-25 in. to 3 in.; petiol. 



' '" ,*" r"" rly 1 m -> rather slender - Male V*« pendulous, solitary, axillary, or in 

 small fascicles, fulvous-tomentose. Female spikes solitary, axillary, little longer than the 



•o in. 



