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CYCLOBALANUS. 



9 to 10-zonate, 5 lines broad and 7 lines long, and the glans as sub-ovate, globose or 

 sub-globose, measuring without the styles 6 lines in length and 6 or 7 lines in breadth. 

 But I doubt whether even the author's specimens were fully ripe. 



Plate 57B. — Q. sericea, Scheff. 5, branch with female spikes; 6, branch with young 

 acorns; 7, acorns further advanced, — all of natural size; 8 and 9, female flowers : enlarged. 



52. Quercus Bennettii, Miq. FL Ind. Bat i. 857 ; Suppl. 348. 



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Young shoots nearly glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, from elliptic-oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, shortly, bluntly and rather abruptly cuspidate, entire ; gradually narrowed 

 from the lower fourth into the slender *35 in. long petiole ; both surfaces at first 

 minutely pubescent, but glabrous when old; nerves 6 to 10 pairs; length of blade 3 to 

 4*5 in., breadth 1*25 to 2 in. Inflorescence slender, panicled, terminal, longer than the 

 leaves. Male floivers solitary; perianth 6-lobed ; stamens about 12. Spikes of female 

 flowers solitary, axillary; flowers solitary. Capules on short, thick pedicels, solitary, 

 patelliform, and covering only the base of the glans, puberulous; zones about 6, sub- 

 denticulate, *6 in. to '75 in. in diameter Glans smooth, ovoid-globose, with conical 

 apex and truncate base, *5 in. to *6 in. long and *6 in. to *7 in. in diameter. 

 Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 112; Hook. fit. FL Br. Ind. v. 612; BO. Prod. xvi. ii. 94; 

 Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 235. — Q. Miqueliana, Scheff. Observ. Phytog. ii. 48, iii. 94. 



Malacca, — Maingay (No. 1460); Borneo, — Beccari {P.B. 2266, 2514) ; Bangka, — Teysmann, 

 Kurz. 



This resembles Q. Lamponga, Miq., in leaves ; but the acorns of Q. Lamponga, although 

 but slightly muricate, are those of a Pasania. 



Plate 58 A. — Q. Bennettii, Miq. 1, branch with male inflorescence; 2, spikes of female 

 flowers ; 3, ripe acorn ; 4, glans, — all of natural size. 



53. Quercus Cantleyana, King in Hook. fit. FL Br, Ind. v. 613. 



Young shoots rather thick, angular, minutely lepidote- puberulous or sub-glabrOus. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly cuspidate, 

 entire ; the base acuminate ; upper surface very minutely lepidote-puberulous or glabrous ; 

 the lower paler and minutely but densely lepidote-puberulous; main nerves 12 to 14 

 pairs and bold and prominent on the lower surface, as is the midrib; length of blade 

 5-5 to 7*5 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiole *5 in. to '75 in. Male spikes solitary, 

 axillary, longer than the leaves ; flowers solitary, or sub-glomerulate ; the perianth 6-lobed ; 

 stamens 12, rudimentary; ovary globular, pubescent. Female spikes (apparently on a 

 different tree from the male) solitary, axillary, longer than the leaves, stout. Cupules 

 in groups of 3 or 2, or occasionally solitary, on stout minutely bracteolate pedicels, *3 

 to '4 in. long; hemispheric and tubercular when young; adult cupules with 5 to 7 

 obscurely denticulate wavy pubescent lamellae ; sub-hemispheric, saucer-shaped; '6 in. 

 to -7 in. in diameter and -15 in. to -3 in. deep; the pedicel thick, annular, and bearing 

 one or two aborted fruits. Glans from depressed-hemispheric to conic-hemispheric, 



apiculate; the base truncate, deciduously adpressed, sericeous; *75 in. in diameter and *5 

 in. long. 



