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PASANIA. 



A fine tree, 50 to 100 feet in height. In its cupule this resembes Sundaica, as 

 noted under that species. By its fruit it is also allied to pseudo-Molucca, Bl., and in its 



larjre leaves this much resembles Q. elephantum, a species collected by M. Pierre in 



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Cambodia and described by the late Dr. Hance in TrimerCs Journal of Botany for 1876, 

 p. 365. But the leaves of elephantum are more gradually narrowed upwards, more 

 c.nneate and sub-cordate at the base, and not at all auriculate on one side, as are the 



leaves of this. Moreover, the cupule of Q. elephantum is lamellate (although faintlv 



whereas the cupule of this is unmistakeably that of a Pasania. Finally, this has a 

 glabrous glans, while that of elephantum is minutely sericeous. 



Plate 35B.— Q. gfandifrons, King. 1, part of a branch; 2 & 3, young fruiting 



pikes ; 4, adult cupule and glans ; 5, flower-spike, — all of natural 



35. Quercus polystachya, Wall. Cat. 2789. 



Young shoots and rachises of inflorescence minutely tomentose; all other parts 

 glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at base and apex, entire; 

 the base decurrent on the petiole ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, rather prominent beneath : 

 both surfaces smooth : the lower pale and sometimes glaucescent ; length of blade 5 to 

 7 in. breadth 2 to 2*5 in. ; petiole *5 to *7 in. Male and female flowers in separate 

 terminal panicles longer than the leaves : the female panicles less branched than the 

 male. Male flowers in rather sparse glomeruli of 2 to 5; the perianth with 5 or 6 blunt 

 lobes • rudimentary ovary large, globular, white, hairy ; stamens about 12. Female flowers 

 in rather distant glomeruli of 3. Pipe fruits on short, erect, thick, pitted rachises ; the 

 vupules sessile, connate ; the bodies of the scales broad, connate, sericeous ; their apices 

 free and glabrous. Ripe cupule with 1 or 2 abortive ones at its base, sub-discoid, not so 



wide as, and embracing only the base of, the glans; *4 in. in diameter and about '1 in. 

 deep. Glans sub-globular, apiculate, smooth, shining, about *5 in. in diameter and the 



■ht. DC Prod. xvi. pt. ii. 107; Kurz F. Flora Barm. ii. 485; Hook. fil. FL 



Br. Ind. v. 610.— #. bancana, Kurz (not of Seheffer) I.e. 485. 



same in neig 



Burmah, Taong Dong,— Wallich; Lonkim Forest,— Brandis ; Tongkyghat,— K\ 



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(No. 1000); Kongal on the Munipur- Burmah frontier,— Watt (No. 6616); Toungyi in 

 Shan Hills, at 5,000 feet,— General H. Collett 



This is known only from Burmah, and is not well represented in collections. Kurz, 

 who saw it growing, describes it as an evergreen tree in flower and fruit in Novembe 



Kurz confused some specimens of this bearing female panicles with Q. bancana, Scheff 



of which he had 



specimen. I believe this tree to be truly dioecious 



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Plate 44.— Q. polystachya, Wall. 1, flowering branch; 2, female spikes; 3, spike of 

 pe fruit, — all of natural size. 



36. Quercus Celebica, Mia. in Ann, Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 110. 



Young parts densely ferruginous-tomentose, ultimately all parts glabrous except the 

 cupules. Learns coriaceous, shortly petiolate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, entire ; the base acute ; upper surface shining, lower pale, dull and 

 glaucescent ; the nerves 9 to 11 pairs, bold and distinct below, obsolete above ; length of 

 blade 3 to 4 in., breadth 1*1 in. ; petiole *25 in., stout. Spikes short, axillary. Cupules 

 sessile, saucer-shaped, '7 to *9 in. in diameter and # 25 in. deep ; the scales numerous, in 



