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PASANIA. 



43. Quercus Curtisii, King; Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 612. 

 Glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate 



in 



or 



lanceolate, acuminate; the base acute; the edges slightly recurved (when dry); both 

 .surfaces glabrous: the upper shining, the lower pale, dull, and sometimes glaucescent; 

 nerves about 10 pairs, distant, bold (as is the midrib) below, obsolete above; length of 

 blade 6 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 2 5 in. ; petiole -3 to 'b in., stout. Spikes rather numerous, 



few-bunched terminal panicles or 1—2 in the axils of the leaves, a few bearin 

 female flowers. Male flowers in rather sparse glomeruli, or solitary; the perianth with 

 5 or 6 blunt lobes; stamens 12, globular. Female flowers solitary; ripe acorns crowded, 



but not connate. Cupule sessile, woody, discoid, wavy, about '7 in. in diameter; 

 pubescent externally and minutely sub-tubercular, the bodies of the scales bein 

 connate, imbricate, only their rather thick apices being free. Glans turbinate when young 

 cylindric when old, with a conical apex crowned by the remains of the united styles 

 pubescent ; *5 in. to *7 in. in diameter and '8 in. high (to the very apex). 



Penan°\ near the waterfall,— King ; Perak,— King's Collector (No. 3304). 



ching 





A tree 20 to 25 feet in height; apparently not common, as it does not occur in 

 Scortechini's Perak collection at all, and once only in each of the other collections 



mentioned above. 



Plate 52.— Quercus Curtisii, King. 1, branch with spikes bearing male and female 



flowers; 2 spikes with young acorns; 3, with young acorns; 4, young cupule seen from 

 below; 7, mature fruit, — all of natural size; 6, male flowers: enlarged. 



44. Quercus pruinosa, Bl. in Batav. Verh. ix. 217. 



The whole of the young parts covered with rufous, stellate, furfuraceous tomentum, 

 part of which is more or less quickly deciduous. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to ovate- 

 oblong, acute or acuminate, entire; the base broad and rounded; adult leaves more or 

 less glabrous on the upper, and scurfy-pubescent on the lower surface, except the midrib 

 and 10 to 12 pairs of main nerves, which remain fulvous-tomentose; length of blade 

 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*65 to 2*5 in.; petiole under o in.; stipules rather prominent in 

 the young shoots, ovate-lanceolate, velvetty ; nearly -5 in. long, caducous. Spikes fulvous- 

 tomentose, solitary or in small fascicles, terminal or axillary, shorter than the leaves. 

 Male flowers in fascicles of 3, bracteolate ; the perianth 6 - cleft ; the lobes broad, sub- 

 erect; anthers 10 to 12. Ripe fruit solitary, rarely in pairs; the cupule woody, saucer- 

 shaped, 1 in. to 1-25 in. broad and "25 in. deep, embracing only the base of the glans; 

 its scales broadly ovate with thick blunt apices, pubescent, closely adpressed and connate. 

 Glans much depressed, globose; the apex umbonate, and crowned by the united bases 

 of the styles, smooth when ripe.— Bijdr. 521 ; Fl. Jav. Cupul. 9. t. 1 ; Mus. Bot. i. 

 292; Miq. PL Jungh. i. 10; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 850, in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 107; 

 DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 87; Oudem. Annot. Cup. Jav. 11.— Q. pseudo Molucca, Bl. var. pruinosa, 

 Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 227. 



Java, — Blame, Zollinger. 



Except Zollinger, nobody since Blume's time appears to have collected the exact 

 plant which the latter described under this name (pruinosa), and I have seen specimens 

 of it nowhere except in the collections at Leiden and Calcutta, and in that of M. De 

 Candolle at Geneva (in which there is a specimen received from Leiden). It is a 



