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CYCLOBALANUS. 



to 1*6 in.; petiole 2 in. to -3 in. Male spikes shorter than the leaves, solitary and 

 xillary, or in lax terminal panicles. Female spikes few, below the males, axillary 



solitary; when mature nearly twice as long as the leaves. Cupules sessile, solitary 



when young, globular, and embracing the whole of the glans except its apex, the 

 lamellse much denticulate; when ripe -7 in. in diameter and 2 in. deep, saucer-shaped, 

 the 5 or 6 lamellse obscurely and irregularly denticulate, pubescent, covering only the 

 base of the glans. Glans ovoid with truncate base ; the apex produced into a long conical 

 point, crowned by the column of persistent styles, sericeous or glabrous; length to apex 

 •75 in., diameter *6 in.— Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 113 ; DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 93 ; 

 Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot Gart Berl iv. 230 ; Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. v. 612. 



Mount Malawar in Western Java,— - Junghuhn ; Borneo,— Beccari (P.B. Ms. 12, 1207, 

 and 1710); Sumatra,— Beccari (P.S. 74); Perak,— Scortechini (King's Collector, Ms. 821, 

 5816, 5846, and 10519) ; Singapore,— King's Collector (No. 1249). 



The specimens of this in the Leiden Herbarium, on which Oudemanns founded this 

 species, are very fragmentary indeed. It is represented in M. De Candolle's herbarium 

 by a few fruits, and is (1887) quite unrepresented at Kew and the British Museum. 

 In Perak the tree appears to be tolerably common; and the Perak specimens differ in 

 no respect from the Javanese, except in having the glans quite glabrous when ripe. 



Plate 56A.— Q. conocarpa, Oudem. 1, branch with male inflorescence; 2, branch 

 with female inflorescence; 3, ripe acorns (from Perak specimens); 4, ripe acorn {from a 

 Java specimen),— all of natural size. 



49. Queecus bancana, Schep. Observat. Phytog. ii. 49 ; iii. 94 (not of Kurz Fl, 



Brit. Burm. ii. 485). 



Youug branches minutely puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly and 

 rather abruptly acuminate, entire; the base acute; when young both surfaces minutely 

 puberulous-lepidote; when adult almost glabrous; the upper surface dull; the lower pale 

 and slightly shining; midrib and about 9 pairs of nerves bold and faintly coloured on 

 the lower surface; length of blade 6 to 8 in., breadth 2'25 in. to 3 in., petiole '6 in. to 

 •75 in. Fruiting spikes stout, shorter than the leaves. Cupule solitary, on a stout short 

 pedicel, eampanulate-hemispheric, embracing more than half the glans, with 5 to 7 

 irregular, minutely denticulate, rather obscure, laminae ; the lip slightly recurved, sericeous, 

 •4 in. to *6 in. deep and 1 in. in diameter. Glans hemispheric when young ; when adult 

 depressed-globose, shortly apiculate ; the base truncate, puberulous-lepidote, *8 in. long and 



1 in. in diameter. 



Island of Bangka, — Teysmann. 



According to the technical characters founded on the cupule this is a Cyclobalanusi 

 but its real affinities are with Q. Amherstiana, Falconeri and scyphigera, which are Pasanias. 

 The late Dr. Scheffer, the author of this species, explains (I.e. iii. 94) that when he first 

 described it he associated with its leaves the flower and fruit of a different species which 

 had by mistake been fastened on to the same sheet. On the subsequent receipt of 

 specimens bearing leaves and fruit he re-described the species. The specimens from which 

 I have written the foregoing description bear the number 11443 of the Herb. Hort. Bot. 

 Bogor. According to Dr. Scheffer, the ripe fruit often measures 1*5 in. in diameter, but 

 I have seen none measuring more than 1 in. 



