612 CXL. CCFULIFEE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Quer cus. 



A tree, 60-80 ft.; branches and leaves beneath rufously tomentose. Leaves 

 4-6 in., hard, nerves sunk above strong beneath, cross-nervules distinct on both sur- 

 faces. Fruiting spikes 4-8 in., very stout, tomentose. Cups shortly stoutly 

 peduncled, young with long spiuous incurved bracts, mature |-f in. diam., flat with 

 incurved margins, silky within, and short pubescent bracts. Nut much broader than 

 long, top conical with a long stout umbo. 



*** Nut turbiaate. 



34. Q. Curtisii, JL/;?// mss. ; leaves subsessile elliptic-lanceolate 

 obtusely caudate base acuminate entire pale above white or silvery beneath, 

 nerves 8-1 C pairs obliquely ascending slender, cups small quite flat thin 

 narrower than the hoary hemispherico-turbinate conic-topped nut, bracts 

 much appressed. 



PERAK, King's Collector. PENANG, Curtis, King. 



Branches pustular, pale, glabrous. Leaves 6-8 in., thinly coriaceous, nerves 

 hardly impressed above; petiole ^ \ in., [stout. Fruiting spilces ]ong-peduncled. 

 Cups crowded, * i- in. diam., wavy, margin entire not or hardly incurved, pubescent 

 within. Hut ^--| in. diam., broader than long, umbo short. 



:. IV. CrcLOKAi.vx' -, F.ndl. Male spikes stiff, erect. Styles as 

 in Pa- -'i.thi. l;f it cnpular ; bracts connate, forming entire or 



toothed ridges, zo: s (as in Ctjdolialanopsis). Lea ves quite entire 



in all. 



* Nut normally longer than broal. 



35. Q. eumorpha, Hiurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, ii. 107; For. 

 Fl. ii. 487; glabrous, leaves long-petioled undulate elliptic-oblong obtuse or 

 obtusely acuminate entire base acute shining above pale beneath, nerves 6-8 

 pairs very faint arched, cups sessile campanulate or turbinately hemi- 

 spheric embracing half the broad glabrous umbonate nut, bracts confluent 

 in indistinct belts. 



MARTABAN and TENASSEBIM ; on Moolyet, alt. 6-7000 ft., Kurz, &c. 



A small scraggy evergreen tree. Leaves 3-4 in., thinly coriaceous, pale brown 

 when dry, minutely reticulate beneath ; nerves as impressed stria? above, very slender 

 beneath ; petiole ^-f in. Cups narrowed to the base, f in. diam. Nut 4 in. long. 

 I have seen no good fruit. 



36. Q. conocarpa, Oudem. in VcrsL en. Mededeel. xii. 206 ; Annot. 

 Cupulif. Jav. 18, t. 10 ; branches tomentose, leaves small short-petioled 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate obtusely caudate entire base acute puberulons 

 above with tomentose costa whitish or brownish finely tomentose beneath 

 with 12-14 pairs of very strong arched nerves, cups stoutly peduncled hemi- 

 spheric with a flat or intruded base half embracing the conico-hemispberic 

 umbonate pointed silky or glabrous nut, belts few thin appressed hoary. 

 A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 93 ; Miguel Ann. J\fv.s. i. 113 ; Wenziy in Juhrb. Sot. 

 G-art. Berl. iv. 230. 



PERAK and SINGAPORE, Kunstler, Scortechini. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo. 



A tree, 60-80 ft. Leaves 3-4 in., coriaceous, very shining though puberulous 

 above, cross-nervules strong beneath ; petiole J in., tomentose. Cups nearly 1 in. 

 diam. Nut as long and as broad. 



37. Q. Bennettii, MiquelFl. Ind. Bat. i. 857; Suppl. 348 ; Ann. Mus. i. 

 112 ; glabrous, leaves broadly elliptic abruptly obtusely cuspidate entire base 

 narrowed into the slender petiole, nerves 10-12 pairs arched very faint on 



