CYCL01U1 ^NOPSIS. 



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exserted. Signor Beccari's Borncan specimens (Xos. 3243 and 51) come very near to 

 this species, but they have much more coriaceous leaves, rounded, not narrowed at the 

 base, with fewer nerves, longer petioles, and the bark of the branches is veiy scant il\ 



lenticellate. I have named Beccari's plant Q. nivca. 



Plate 24A. — Q. argentata, Korth. 1, branch with young fruit; 2, half-ripe acorn: of 



natural size. 



13. Ql'ERCUS XI YEA, TIOV. 9pCC. 



Bark of young launches very pale, glabrous, not lenticellate. l.-ai on Long el nder 

 petioles, rigidly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; the edges entire, re- into ; the 

 base rounded or suddenly and slightly narrowed just above tho petiole; upper surface 



glabrous and shining; the lower very pale, silvery, glaucous, especially when young; 

 nerves 9 to 11 pairs, prominent and, like the midrib, at first minut ly puberulous, 

 afterwards glabrous and shining; length of blade 35 in. to 5 in., breadth 1 in. to K i 

 in.; petiole 1*25 in. to 175 in. Spikes unisexual; the male in few-branched, lax, 

 pubescent, axillary, pendent panicles, shorter than the leaves; flowers distinctly glomerulate ; 

 perianth, stamens, anthers broad. Female^ spikes solitary, axillary, very short and few- 

 flowered, or in a small panicle at the base of the current year's shoots. Cupula solitary, 

 sessile, turbinate when young, when mature hemispheric, tapering to the base; lamella 

 about 7, thin, broad, densely fulvous-pubescent; the edges scarious, erose, *9 in. in 

 diameter and *7 in. deep. Glans globose, apiculate, shining, "8 in. long and *8 in. in 



diameter. 



Borneo,— Beccari (P. B. 2243, 2551). 



This resembles Q. argmtuta, Korth., but is distinguished from it in the points noted 

 under that species. The leaves of this are beautifully white beneath, especially when 

 young. The drooping male spikes with glomerulate male flowers mark it emphatically as 

 a Cyclobalanopsis, in spite of its having entire leaves. 



Plate 24B.— Q. nivea, King. 3, branch with male spikes; 4, branch with youn- 

 fruit ; 5, branch with ripe acorn : all of natural size. 



14. Quercus Braxdisiaxa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 1873, ii. 108; For. 



FL B. Burm. ii. 488. 



Young branches cinereous, puberulous ; the older lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, 



obovate-lanceolate, rarely elliptic-lanceolate, slightly oblique, shortly and bluntly acuminate, 



undulate or coarsely sub-serrate in the upper two-thirds; the base acute or acuminate; 



upper surface glabrous; lower glaucous, deciduously puberulous; main nerves 10 to 14 



irs ra ther straight, prominent, as are the minor veins on the under surface; length of 



blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 1*75 in. to 4 in. ; petiole *5 in. to *75 in. Male spikes unknown 

 Female spikes solitary, axillary, two or three times as long as the petioles; the rachis 

 swollen minutely tomentose, few-flowered. Cupules sessile, hemispheric, embracing tho 

 lower two-thirds of the glans; lamellae about 8, minutely tomentose; the lower erose- 

 denticulate, the upper sub- entire; when ripe '75 in. in diameter and '5 in. deep. Glans 

 conic-hemispheric, apiculate ; the base truncate, smooth when ripe, -5 in. in diameter and 

 in Jong.— Book. fil. FL Br. Ind. v. 604. 

 Burmah in the hill forests of Martaban, at elevations of 1,000 to 4,000 feet 



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Kurz ' Shan Hills at 4,000 feet,— General H. Collett 



