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Var. 6. Collettii, King in Hook fil. Fl. B. Inrf. v. 610. 



Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, much narrow. >d to the base 



acorns solitary (by abortion) ; cupule boldly tuberculato, sublamellato ; glans ovoid - 



apiculate. 



Naga Hills, Assam, — Masters, Colonel II. Collett ; Manipur, — C. B. Clarke, (Xos. 41'J-- 



42088, and 43473). 



Good fruiting specimens of this very distinct variety were first collected by Colom-1 

 H. Collett during military operations near Kohima, and some of these were distribute 1 

 under the provisional name of Q. Collettii, King A1SS. 



Var. 7. Chittagonga, King in Hook. fil. Fl. 11. bid. v. 010. 



Leaves oblanceolate or lanceolate, much narrowed to the base; the petiole slender; 

 acorns small, crowded, but not connate ; cupule3 minutely tuberculato, not lamellate 



glans ovoid, slightly apiculate.— Q. mixta, DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 83 (partly). 



Chittagong {Calcutta Botanic Garden Collector, Nos. 324, 416, 478, 479, 480, and I) 

 Plate 41. — Q. spicata, Smith. Branches with flowers and ripe fruit. 1, section of 



ripe 

 reduced 



f ru it — <?/ natural size ; 2, male flowers,— enlarged ; 3, leaf of var. hrevi-petMa 



Plate 42.— Q. spicata, Smith. 4, two leaves and fruiting -spike of var. graciJip 



5, leaves and male spikes, and 6, ripe fruit of var. Collettii; 7, baiting-spike and leaves 



of var. Chittagonga,— all of natural size. 



Plate 43.— <>. spicata, Smith. 8, var. depretna, with ripe fruit ; 9, leaves and 



fruitin<r-spike of var. microcalyx ; 10, leaf, and 11, fruit from another specimen,— /» 



natural size. 



34. Q 



King in Hook. fil. FL llr. Ind, 



6 



Young branches minutely puberulous; all other parts, except the inflorescence 

 glabrous. Leaves large, coriaceous, slightly inequilateral, shortly petiolate, oblong or 



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ptic ; the apex rather suddenly, shortly, and bluntly caudate 

 very little narrowed towards the slightly unequal, sub-cordate, base ; main nerves 12 to 

 pairs bold and prominent on both surfaces, as are the wavy, transverse, secondary 



upper surface shining ; the lower dull, pale ; length of blade 9 to 15 in., breadtl- 



20 



4 to 6 in • petiole 5 in. or under, stout. Spikes mostly male, in large, open, terminal 

 panicles ; the rachises puberulous. Male jlowen braeteolate, glcmerulate; the perianth with 



6 short, 'blunt lobes, pubescent externally; anthers about 12, rudimentary; pistil Iarg 



pale hairy. Female /lowers solitary, with short, truncate styes. Fruit spdrs shorter th 

 the leaves, bearing cupules only towards the apex. Cupules on short thick scaly 

 pedicels, solitary, woody, sub-hemispheric, with incurved edge when young ; when adult 

 saucer-shaped, the edge not incurved, embracing only the lower fourth of the glans, -8 in. 

 in diameter and -2 in. deep ; the scales pubescent, ovateacuminate, imbneate, closely 

 adpressed ; their bodies entirely connate, except tho subulate apices which are free 



Glans ovoid-c 

 by the thick 

 diameter.— Hook, fil Fl Br. Ind. v. 610. 



Perak, at elevations of from 500 to 3,000 feet (King's Collector, Jfe 3766, 4867 

 4872 5365 6544, 6604, and 7259),— Scortechini (without number). 



when young; depressed, globose-conic when adult; the apex crowned 

 uns of the united styles, glabrous, '6 in. long and about the same m 



Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, Yol II. 



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