SECTION HL-PASANIA. 



Pasania.— Male spikes erect, simple, or panicled ; female flowers on short distinct 



spikes or at the base of some of the male panicles ; involucres solitary or in 

 groups of three, cup-shaped, saucer-shaped, or discoid : the bracts imlricali 

 free, or united by their bases only, the apices always free; leaves entire. 



Glans conspicuously longer than broad, 



Glans cylindric-conic. 



Leaves obovate to obovate-oblong . . • . • , ....... 20. Q. Lindkyana. 



„ broadly elliptic- oblong, puberulous XL Q. scgphnjcra. 



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narrowly elliptic-oblong, glabrous, or glabrescent; cupula 



covering only a fifth of the glans « 22. Q. Kumtleri. 



oblong-lanceolate, always glabrous ; cupula covering half 



the glans . , , . . , . . # 23. Q. Amherst < an a 



Glans ovoid. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 6 to 12 in. long, glabrous; glans not much 



narrowed to the apex 24. Q. acumii to* 



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lanceolate or oblanceolate, narrowed to the base, 5 to 7 in. 



long ; glans smooth, narrowed in upper half 33. Q. ycata, vars. Col- 



lettii and Chitta- 



gonga 



,, oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 7 in. long; glans pubescent, much 



narrowed in the upper half; cupule with long spreading 



bristly tubercles ♦ 25. Q. lappacca 



Glans sub-globose, the base truncate. 



Cupule wider than glans; its edge wavy 



26. Q. Falconeru 



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not wider than the base of the glans ; edge not wavy 



Cnpule flat, discoid ; its brads free, spreading, spiny ....... 21. Q. ScortechmH. 



„ saucer-shaped ; its bracts broadly ovate, imbricate, adpressed. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate 28. Q. p&eudo-Mohu 



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dimorphous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-rotund 20. Q. monUcola. 



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