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very distinct looking species, and it can only be from not bavin- sc n specimens of 



it that so many botanists have confused it with Q. puud+lM* «, Q KorthtUi * 

 J he young cupules in this, as in most Pasanias, have tJ ir scales distinct while 

 Forbes' specimens from W. .tern Java (Nos. 807 and 940) may belong to Q. 

 Bl., as Dr. Wenzig suggests. The specimen * have youn - nower->pikes, hut are 

 ipe fruit. They are much less hairy and less prnino* than HI 



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Plate 53B.— Q. pruinosa, Bl. I, branch with young male mkes; 2, 8 ike of 



young fruit; 3, half-ripe fruit; 4, nearly mature cupule; 5, noarlv mature' dans* ( 



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ripe fruit,— all of natural size. No. 6 is c< I from Blmc't figure. 



45. Quekcus i'Aluda, Bl. Bijdr. 524, 



Young shoots puborulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or lancoolafe acuminata 

 entire; the base acute or acuminate; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, prominent on the 

 lower surface (as are the secondary nerves) from their dark colour and dark deciduous 



pubesence ; the rest of the lower surface uniformly covered with minute pale pub» - 

 cence; upper surface glabrous; length of blade 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*5 in. to 2 in. 

 petiole about *5 in. long. Inflorescence terminal, tawny, pubescent; the spikes paniclod 

 at least one of them bearing female flowers; bracteoles of male flowers single, lioeai 

 Female spike, when mature, stout, erect, 6 to 8 in. long, pubescent ; fruits solitary ; the 

 cupule sessile, flat, saucer-shaped, woody, • "> in. deep and 2 in. in diameter; tubercular- 

 echinate externally, the bases of its scales being connate, and their apices free so 

 as to form broad hard tubercles. Glans deprt — d turbinate, with a few shallow vertical 

 grooves, slightly depressed round the short remains of tho conjoint d styles; when ripe 

 smooth, *75 in. high and nearly 2 in. in diameter — Blume Fl. Jav. Cup. 12. t. 4, 5 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 293 ; DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 84 and W$**ig in Jahrb. Bot. Gar 

 Berl. (excl. syn. Q. pseudo-Molucca, BL, var. pallida, Miq., and var. rostrata, BL); 0n< >/. 

 Annot. Cup. Jav. 11. t. vi; Miq. in Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 851. — Q. psendo- Molucca, Miq 

 (non Bl.) var. pallida ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 108. 



Java, — Blume, Kurs, Sumatra, — II. 0. Forbes, at elevations of from 3,000 to 0.00' 

 feet: fruit only: No. 1143a, leaves on 



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This is described by Mr. Forbes, who collected it on Mount Denipe in Western 

 Sumatra, as a very large tree. He was unable to obtain the leaves and fruits from the 

 same tree. This species is very badly represented in collections, the type in Leiden 

 beino- but a poor specimen. When Blume figured the species he had never seen ripe 

 fruit. Oudeman's figure of the very characteristic ripe fruit is excellent. 



Plate 53A.— Q. pallida, BL 1, branch with inflorescence; 2 & 3, young fruits 



4 ripe fruit; 5, cupule,— all of natural size; 6, male spike: enlarged, 





