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PASA_NIA. 



specimen No. 1956, named pruinosa, is not true pruinosa, Bl., but belongs to th 



species 



Plate 36.— Q. pseudo- Molucca, Bl. 1, flowering branch; 2, young fruit-spike; 3 



ripe fruit-spike; 4, ripe fruit; 5, cupule,— all of natural size, and copied from Blume and 

 Oudcmans; 6. fruiting-branch ; 7 & 8, ripe glans ; 9, young connate fruit,— all of natural 



size, and from Beccarfs P. S. No. 74. 



29. Quercus monticola, nov. spec 



Young shoots with dark-coloured, striate, slightly pubescent bark. Leaves coriaceous, 

 rigid ; those on the young shoots ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with a short, blunt acumen ; 

 those on the older branches ovate-rotund, blunt; the edges of all entire, slightly 

 narrowed at the base to tbe very short, stout petiole ; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs ; 

 slightly prominent beneath ; upper surface glabrous and shining; lower pale, and covered 

 with minute stellate pubescence; the midrib and nerves sub-glabrous; length of the 

 ovate leaves 2'5 in., of the ovate-rotund 1*75 in., breadth of both about 1*25 in.; 

 petiole about *2 in. Fruit on short, erect spikes. Cupules solitary, sessile, woody, saucer- 

 shaped, about 1 in. in diameter and *25 in. deep, embracing the lower third of the 

 glans, pubescent ; the scales numerous, broadly ovate, with abrupt lanceolate apices, 

 imbricate, closely adpressed ; the bases connate ; the apices free. Glans glabrous, 

 globose ; the base truncate ; the apex slightly conical, and crowned by the short, little 

 divergent styles. 



Mount Singalan in Sumatra, at an elevation of 8,000 feet,— Sty. Beccari {Herb. 

 Becc. P. S. No. 275); Borneo, at 1 1,000 feet, —Xow. 



The rigid habit and rounded leaves of the adult branches of this remind one of 



some of the broad, entire-leaved forms of Q. Ilex, L, The fruit, however is much 

 larger and very different in form. Flowers of this are unknown. 



Plate 37. — Q. monticola, King. 1, adult frui ting-branch ; 2, acorn seen from above- 

 3, cupule seen from below; 4, twig from another branch, — all of natural size. 



30. Quercus pachyphylla, Karz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal for 1875, pt. 2. 19? 



t. xiv. figs. 1 to 4. 



Young shoots striate, puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, rarely elliptic, 

 acuminate or caudate-acuminate, entire; the base acute, rather unequal; main nerves 

 8 or 9 pairs; upper surface glabrous, shining; lower pale, dull, uniformly covered 



the nerves and midrib, by a coating of very minute stellate hair; length of 

 blade 4*5 to 7 in., breadth 1*5 to 1*75 in.; petiole -35 in. to *5 in., stout. Spikes 

 solitary and axillary or terminal and fascicled, longer than the leaves ; mostly male, 

 a iew androgynous; rachis pubescent. Male flowers glomerulate; the perianth 5 to 

 6-toothed; stamens 10 or 12. Female flowers connate in groups of 3; stigmas 3, erecto- 

 patent. Fruiting-spike stout, erect ; ripe cupules crowded, connate into masses of 3 or 

 woody, hemispheric, each from 1 in. to 1-5 in. in diameter, closely embracing the 

 greater part of the glans; the lower rows of scales completely fused together; the 

 upper in pseudo-zones, closely adpressed; their connate bases broadly ovate, trigonous, 

 Tou^h, pubescent ; the short acute apices alone free. Glans depressed-globose, glabrous, 



