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QXJKKCUS 



Plate 82. — Q. Listen) King. 1, leaf and male inflorescence from Griffith's No. 4464; 



2 female flower-spike and leaf from Brandis's specimen, — of natural size. 



Quercus littoralis, Bl. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 303; Miq. Fl. Lid. Bat. i. 1. 864 ; Ann 



Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 118; DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 106. 



This species is represented in the Leiden Herbarium by a single leaf-twig. Miquel 

 (I.e.) suggests that it may be a form of Q. spicata, Sm. 



Quercus mixta, DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 83; sp. dub. in Hook. fit. Fl. Lid. v. 619 



Mixed with Wallich's specimens of Q. Amherstiana, and bearing the same numb 



(2783), are fragments of at least one, if not of two, other species. These fragments 

 consist of (a) leafy specimens bearing androgynous spikes. These (in Herb. Calc.) are in my 

 opinion Q. spicata, Sm., or something very near it ; (b) male spikes, quite separate from any 

 twig. I do not know what these are, but they are not the same as the spikes of (a); (c) 

 fruiting peduncles truncate at the apex (as if the part bearing the male flowers had withered off) 

 and scooped out at the insertions of the cupules ; the cupules small (*25 in. high and from "35 in. 

 to '5 in. across^, open, connate by their bases into fascicles; their scales ovate-acute, sub-connate. 

 Along with these cupules there is a note in Wallich's handwriting — "an 2789 Taong 



Doling ? " Now, Wallich's No. 2789 is Q. polystachya, Wall., a tree still found growing 



Burmah and Penang. 



I fear, however, that the mixture in Wallich's distribution of his No. 2783 has been 

 by no means a uniform one, and that, in different sets of his plants, different species 

 have been mixed. M. De Candolle has accepted the fragments which I have here 

 called (a) and (e) as belonging to one plant, and a description of these forms the basis 



of his species Q. mixta. 



Since writing the foregoing, I have examined some collections recently made by the 

 Collector of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the Chittagong Hill Tracts; and in them I 

 find numerous specimens of a Quercus answering fairly with M. De Candolle's description 

 of mixta, and agreeing with that part of Wallich's material which I have designated 

 These specimens form, in my opinion, a variety of Q. spicata, and I have named it var. 



Chittagong a. 



Quercus Molucca, Rumph. Hort. Amb. Hi. 85 (partly) t. 56 



Rumph's rude figure and description having been associated with some loose leaves 

 and young fruit of a Quercus in the Leiden Herbarium (received from the Moluccas and 



Celebes), this species was published in Willdenow's edition of Linnaeus' Spec. PL iv. 1 



427, and was kept up by Sprengel (Syst. iii. 857), and Blume (Mus. Bot. i. 291), and also 

 by Smith (Reef Encycl. v. 29. No. 11 



) 



Blume, however, omitted it from his Bijdragen and Fl. Javce. Cupulif. M. De Candolle 

 admits it in the Prodromus xvi. ii. 86, but mentions that his material consists of a single 

 leaf and a young fruit (from Celebes) sent to him by Blume. The type specimen & of 

 the species in the Leiden collection is of the same meagre sort, and I have seen nothing 



