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27. QuERcrs Scortechixit, King in Hook. Jil FL Br. Ind. v. *. 



Leaves coriaceous, oblong or sub-obo rate-oblong ; apex blunt or sub-acute $ cd; 

 entire, narrowed at the base to the stout, rather short, petiole; main in rve§ to 1<» 

 pairs, not very prominent, glabrous on both surfa- s; the upper shining, the low r dull 

 length of blade 5 or 6 in., breadth 16 in. to 22 in.; petioles about •(] in. Fruit on 

 simple terminal or axillary, erect, solitary spikes ; the rachis stout, pubtrulous. Cupuln 

 woody, sessile, flat and discoid, sharply muricate externally, 1*25 in. in d'ameter, '.'J in 

 high, embracing only the base of the glans ; the scales numerous, frr conical, spiny, 

 pubescent. Glans cylindro-globular ; the base truncate ; the apei Boinetimef alighth 

 depressed, and bearing in its centre the remains of the united styles, glabrous, I in. 



long and about 1*2 in. in diatn. 



Perak. In open jungle on a hillside at an elevation of about 3,200 feet {Kimft 



Collector, No. 2188). 



Mr. Kunstler, in his field note on this, describes it as a tree nearly 100 feet high. 

 It cannot be common, as he collected it only once. Male and female flowers at 



unknown. In its cupule this resembles Q. pallida, BL, but the glans is quito different 



Plate SoA.—G. ScortechiniL Kim?. Branch with ripe fruit,— of natural size. 



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28. Quercus pseudo-Molucca, BL in Batav. Verb ii. 214. t. 4. 



All parts except the outside of the cupule quito glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblon 

 lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, entire ; the base acute or 

 sub-acute, quite glabrous on both surfaces; the under surface glaueescentj main nerv. 

 about 10 to 12 pairs, not prominent ; length of blade 4 to 8 in., breadth i'5 to 2 

 in. ; petiole about '5 in. Spikes terminal, solitary, or in fascicles of 2 or 3; rachi 

 of 'spikes smooth. Male flowers in glomeruli with lanceolate bracteob s ; perianth with 



6 narrow teeth ; anthers 8 to 10. Female flowers mostly solitary. Fruit Mib-sess 



lly solitarv. Cupule woody, saucer-shaped, flat ; the edge only often slightly up 



turned, and embracing the base only of the glans, 1 to 125 in. broad, -2 in. deep 

 the scales minutely tomentose, broadly ovate, with abruptly acute apices, imbricate 

 closely adpressed and connate except the extreme tips. Glans globose or pepn ^sed 



globose, apiculate, sometimes sub-conic, crowned by the remains of the conjoined stj 

 the base truncate, about -6 in. high and 1 in. in diameter, covered with minute 

 yellowish hair when young, glabrous when adnlt.-2H. B&t. 519; FLJav. Cupul. 14. 

 t 6 • Mus Bot i. 291 {with the varieties) ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat i. 849, in Ann. Mus. 

 Luad Bat'.i. 108 {excl. syn. pallida)', DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 86; Oudcm. Annot Cup Jar. 

 7 t\- Wenzia Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. i. 226 [incL var. anjustata, par lb, (excl. other 

 U]X- 3** BL Bot. Verb. ix. 212. , 3; Bijdr 520 ; FL Jav. Cupul V, 

 t "-Q thelecarpa, Miq. PL Jungh. 9; FL Ind. Bat. L 8,1,-var. an ustata, liiq. 



lC ' 8 The Preanger Province in West Java,-Blume, Junghuhn ; Celebes, -Tqmarm ; 

 Mount Singalan°in Sumatra, at an elevation of nearly 5,000 feet,-%. Beccari (II. rb. 



Be 



P. S. No. 74.) 



as a 



ThJ fo'rm with narrowly lanceolate leaves and oblong-conic glans was separated 

 species with some hesitation by Blume under the name curtate. Zollinger's 



