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anicled, androgynous; the rachis fulvous-tomentose. Male fl»wers in glomerules or 

 litary;' the perianth 5 to 6-lobed; stamens 10 to 12. Female flowers and ripe fruit 



solitary. The cupule sessile, woody, cup-shaped, embracing the greater part of the unripe 



glans and half of the ripe glans, sub-ligneous, '6 in. to '8 in. in diameter, and from -2 

 to -4 in. deep ; the tubercles (free apices of the bracts) long, thin, spreading. Glans ovoid- 

 conic, much narrowed in the upper half, and crowned by the remains of the united 

 styles, softly pubescent; length, when quite ripe, 1 in.— Wight Icon. 220; Wall Cat. 

 2780; DC. Prod, xvi. ii. 87; Kurz For. Flor. B. Burnt, ii. 484; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. 

 Gart. Bed. iv. 223; Gamb. Ind. Timb. 3«6; Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 607; Wall. Cat. 



indeterminatce) 9099.— Q. hirsuta, Lindl, Wall. Cat. 3734.— Q. Mackiana, Hook, Ic 



PL t. 224. 



Khasia Hills, — Griffith, Hooker, Mann, Clarke; Burmah, — Heifer (4461), Brandis ; at 



elevations of from 2,000 to 4,000 feet ; Perak, — Scortechini, (King's Collector, No. 3919). 



The Perak specimens of this have larger leaves than those from Khasia. The acorns 

 are also larger, and are covered to a greater extent by the cupule; but as they are all 

 young, this may be a transitory condition. 



This resembles some states of Q. acuminata, Roxb., but this is much more hairy, and 

 the tubercles of its cupules are longer and softer than in that species. 



Plate 33. — Q. lappacea, Roxb. 1, branch with two androgynous and one male 



spike; 2, spike of half-ripe fruit; 3, nearly ripe fruit of a Khasia specimen; 4, cupul 



of the same; 5, ripe glans of a Khasia specimen; 6, nearly ripe fruit of a Perak 

 specimen, — all of natural size; 7 & 8, male flowers; 9 female flower: enlarged. 



26. Quercus Falconeri, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal for 1875, pt. ii. 197 



A glabrous tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, elongate-oblong, entire, slightly 

 and equally narrowed to the acute base and apex ; nerves 15 to 20 pairs, prominent on 

 the lower, impressed on the upper surface; minor venation indistinct ; length of blade 10 

 to 15 in., breadth 2-5 to 4 in.; petiole stout, m o in. or less. Fruiting -spikes stout, erect, 

 4 to 8 in. long, minutely pubescent. Cupules wider than the glans, almost sessile, solitary, 

 woody, shallow, cup-shaped when young, saucer-shaped and with the edge slightly 

 recurved when adult, less than *5 in. deep and about 1 in. in diameter; the bodies of 

 the scales distinct, but connate and rusty, puberulous at the base; their apices pointed, 

 free, and glabrous ; the disc by which the glans is attached large and convex. Glans sub- 



lobular, apiculate, with a truncate base, nearly 1 in. in diameter, glabrous when 

 styles persistent until the fruit is half ripe, 3, cylindric, slightly spreading. — Kurz For. Fl 

 Barm. ii. 485 ; Hook. ft. FL Br. Ind. v. 608. 



Burmah, at Moulmein, — Falconer, Kurz; Mergui, — Dr. J. Anderson. 



Kurz, who saw this growing at Moulmein, describes it as ever-green. It has been 



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rip 



found nowhere except at Moulmein and Mergui. It resembles Q. Amherstiana, Wall, but 



has much larger leaves and more globular acorns, which are inserted in shallower, wider 



cupules, of which, when mature, the edges are recurved. In his original description 



of this species, Kurz erroneously gives Upper Assam as its habitat. 



Plate 34.—$. Falconeri, Kurz. 1, branch with young fruit; 2, ripe fruit; 3, an acorn 

 • mature ; 4, mature cupule with recurved edges (seen from below),— all of natural 



size. 



