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LITHOCAKPUS. 



certainly quite different from Q. Javensis, BL, but there may have been some chan 



£in£T 



of labels. 



Plate 76B. — Q. Javensis, Miq. 3, branch with androgynous inflorescence; 



spike 



with female flowers (from Oudemans) ; 5, young acorn ; 6, side view of half ripe acorn ; 



7, ripe acorn 



5 



all of natural size. 



79. Quercus xylocarpa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1875, pt 2. 196, t. xiv. 



figs, 5 to 8. 



Young branches fuscous, puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong 



or 



iblong 



entire; the base acute; main nerves about 12 pairs 



7 _ • 



? 



thi 



but rathe 



prominent beneath ; glabrous on both surfaces, glaucescent on the lower ; length of blade 



4 to 5 in., breadth 175 in. to 2 in.; petiole stout, under '5 m. 



Rip 



fruit on short 



stout, axillary spikes; the cup 



1* 



ate into irresmlar masses of 



to 



one or 



more 



of which 



a y 



be abortive ; the entire glans encased in the depressed-globose 



woody cupule which is covered by hard, striate 



cal tubercles or spines, which some 



times have their apices produced 



spreading or reflexed points. Glans closely invested 



by the cupu 



d with difficulty separated from 



of the styles, smooth, about *75 in. in 



diam 



turbinate, crowned by the remains 

 masses of connate cupules 2 in. in 



diameter or more 



Kurz For. Flora Burmah ii. 489; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 2nd. v. 618 



Assam, — Jenkins (acorn 

 from 6,000 to 7,000 feet 



mly) 



Kupra, on the Munip 



Frontier, at elevations of 



G 



Watt 



Garo Hills, Fisher : Kohima, at 6,500 feet 



C. B 



Clarke D. Prain ; Burmah {fide Kurz), east of Akyab, at an elevation of 4,000 to 5,000 feet 





In Assam this 



as a gre 



tree or grows mixed with 



lamellosa {fide 



Prain) 



Of this species 



> 



e> 



mass of fruit without leaves 



Herbarium many years ago by Colonel Jenkins, then Commissioner of Assam 



sent to the Calcutta 



On these 



Kurz founded the specie 



? 



but it wa9 not until Dr. Watt visited Munipore in 1882 



that 

 Kur 



kno 



Male 



d female flowers are still desiderata. Accord 



the 



pul 



pens transversely when ripe, and the gla 



beco 



posed 



to 

 but 



I have seen no evidence of th 



Plate 79.— <>. xylocarpa, 



Kurz. 1 . branch with two leaves ; 2, spike of nearly ripe fruit 



3 & 4 fruiting-spikes, with an involucre partly removed to show the glans,— all of natural 

 5, scales of cupule : enlarged. 



80. 



Quercus truncata, King in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 618. 



All parts 



pt the inflorescence, glabrous. X 



lanceolate to oblong 



lanceolate, acuminate, entire, gradually narrowed from the middle into the rather long 



slender pet 



main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, rather prominent belo 



both surfaces 



glabrous— the upper shining, the lower dull, pale; length of blade 5 to 8 in., breadth 1*7 

 in. to 3 in. ; petiole about -65 in. Spikes solitary, axillary, or in small terminal panicles 



the female spikes few 



d below the male, all with pubescent rachises. Male fi> 



in glomeruli of 4 to 8; each glomerulus with long subulate bracteoles; perianth with 6 



wers in glomeruli of 3 or 



blunt lobes, tomentose 



more ; the st\ 



erect 



? 



tside; stamens 8 to 10. Female flowers 

 sub-divergent. Ripe fruit on a stoutj puberulou 



lenticellate 



