CYCLOBALANVS. 



i 



3 



A spreading tree, from 30 to 60 feet high, with spreading crown ; the leev. s pale 



green and silvery, especially beneath. This is a very distinct and handsome specie In 

 its leaves it much r mbles Q. Curtisii, King, a small tr. I eolleet, 1 by me in 



Penang, but the acorns of the two are very unlike. This also I semi. lea Q tdutu. 



but has narrower leaves and a dil rent acorn. The leaves of this arc u n d i stinguMi- 

 able from those of the specimen in the Leiden Herbarium named Q. oligoncura, Korl 



As Korthals does not describe the fruit of oligoncura, I huv 1 eated it as a doubt al 

 species. At the same time I think it very likely that E hlcri and oligoneura tre one 

 and the same; and if so, Korthals' (being the older name) would stand. 



Plate 68. — Q. Eicklcri, Wenzig. 1, brai h with flower-spikes; 2, spike of nnripe 



acorns; 3, spike of ripe acorns; 4, ripe glans, — all of natural i izt ; ), male flow 



enlarged. 



67. Q. Thomsoni, Miq, in Ann. Mm. Lugd. Bat. i. 109 (name only). 



Young branches and leaves deciduously puberulous. Leaves oblong or d< _rate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, entire, much narrowed to the acuminate bas< ; upper rarlu< 

 glabrescent or glabrous when adult; lower surface pale, glabresccnt ; main nerves about l< 

 pairs, rather prominent below; length of blade 4 to 5 in., breadth 15 in. to nearly 2 in. 

 petiole *35 to *5 in. Spikes terminal, solitary, or in fascicles of 2 or 3, rather Ion ei 

 than the leaves, mostly androgynous; male flowers above, female flowers below; ma] 

 perianth 5-cleft, cinerescent externally; anthers about 12. Female Jhicen in glomeruli 

 of 3, sessile, minutely bracteolate, containing a number of abortive stamens; stylos 3, 



cylindric, spreading. Ripe fruit on stout, erect rachises. Cupula solitary by abortion, 

 or with 2 undeveloped at the base; the cupule woody, saucer-shaped, shallow or quit 

 flat, *5 to *75 in. across, embracing only the base of the glans, to which it has a broad 

 attachment; its scales densely pubescent, connate, except the very tips. Glans crown- 1 

 by the short remains of the united styles, depressed-globose or pyriform-globose, densely 

 ered with minute white tomentum when young, glabrous when very old; from *5 

 hiffh in the depressed-globose to 75 in. high in the pyriform-globose forms, and 



cov 



in. ~. e 



from '4 to '65 in. across.— Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. v. 615.— Q. turbinate, Koxb. (not of 



Blume). Fl. Ind. iii. 636; Wight's Icon. 221.— 0. leucocarpa, Hook. tiL and Tl 

 MSS. * Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. i. 225. 



Khasia Hills,— Griffith {Kew Dktrib. 4476), Book, fil, G. Mann, C. B. Clarke 



at elevations of from 2,000 to 5,000 feet; Bnnnah,— Kwn; not found in Chittagong 



Roxburgh 



death 



was 



§L considerable tree, often attaining a height of 80 to 100 feet; not unhk, 

 \ta, Hook. fil. and Th., in foliage, but differing greatly in the fruit. This spe 

 jollected by Roxburgh in Chittagong, and was described in his Flora Ind- i 



under the name Q. iurbinata. Blume's species of the same name 



636) prior to ioio uuuer wu uu,u.^ ^. «•» -- - - i 



hut a totally different plant from Roxburgh's, was published in 1825, and (owing to the 

 a w in the publication of Roxburgh's book) therefore takes precedence. Blume'- 



hinata is now, however, reduced to a variety of the same author's Q. Uneata 



Roxburgh left an admirable drawing of his Q. iurbinata in the Calcutta Herbarium, so 



there is no doubt whatever as to his plant. Miquel (I.e.) gave the name Uomsoni to 



