CTLY KNOWN 



H 



bearing the name in any other collection. Miquel keeps up the species in hia Fl. 1 I 

 Bat. i. 849. I think it probable that the species h s been describ. I from full r material 



der 



name. 



Quercus nitid.v, Bt. Mas. Lugd. Bnt. i. 394; J//. FL Tnd. BU i. &57; DC. Prod 



xvi. ii. 95. 



Of this species Blume never saw ripe fruit. His description of the cupulas reftn 

 to a few very young ones on the scanty matt rials (3 shoots) at Leid n collected b\ 

 Korthals in Sumatra. The leaves are glabrous, elliptic-oblong, shortly cuspidate, v<r\ 

 smooth and shining on the upper, and pale, gl a ucescent, minut ly retieulata <>n the low i 

 surface. The cupulcs are hemispheric, passing bel>w into very thick, seal ]>eclieels 

 They have numerous, rather large, tubercular scales, and look more like those of a 

 Pasania than of Cyclobalanus, in which section M. Do Condolle places tho specif 

 Dr. Wenzig, in his paper on the Oaks of Eastern and Southern Asin in -I ihrb. Bot 

 Gart. Berl. iv. 235, gives a description of the mature fruit of this species, Bud, as an 

 example of it, he quotes H. 0. Forbes' Sumatra Herbarium No. 168 : >. Hut that specim n 

 of Forbes' does not agree with Blame's fragmentary type at Leiden : and if Dr. Wcnzii: 

 description is founded on it he has, I fear, mixed up two quite distinct plant 



Quercus oligoneura, Korth. in Verh, Nat. Gesch. Bot. 203 ; HI. in Mux. Bot. Lugd. 



Bat. I 294; Miq. Ft. Ind. Bat. i. 853; Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. i. 109; 



DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 88. 



A species collected by Korthals near Doekoe in Sumatra. This has Urge (6 to 

 in. long by 2 to 4 in. broad) oval or oval-oblong leaves, of a very pale colour, and with 

 few (6 or 7 pairs) of lateral nerves. The only fruits attributed to this species arc qui 



immature, and they are separate from the leaves. The leaves are undistinguishable fr 

 those of Q. EichlerL Wenzig, and 1 think it highly probable that AVenaig's plant is real!) 



Korthals meant by Q. oligoneura; but Korthals did not describe the fruit, and hi 



species must be treated as doubtful 



* 



Quercus olla, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bcng. for 1875, pt. 2. 197; spec. dub. in 



Hook. fiK Fl Ind. v. 619. 



Adult twio-s with smooth, dark-coloured bark. Fruit spikes stout, 4 in. long. 



Cuputes distinct, with 1 or 2 abortive adnate to the base, sub-turbinate, I in. in diar 



and about -5 in. deep, very thick-walled, woody, minutely fulvous-tomentose, i 



numerous rows of broad shortly and abruptly acuminate scales. Clans depressed-glob 



■ith 



d by the cupules except at the broad flat apex, smooth, sh 



£• 



Assam, — Jenk 



The only specimen of this consists of a spike of ripe fruit collected in Assam many 



years ago by the late Colonel Jenkins, Chief Commissioner of that province. There 

 no leaves on this specimen, and no other has ever been received from Assam or any 

 part of India. The acorns are very peculiar and very handsome; and were the tree 

 at all a common one, they could hardly have faded to attract the attention of the many 

 planters scattered over the province. Possibly, therefore, Colonel Jenkins may have 

 collected his solitary specimen during some expedition beyond the British frontier. 



