Querctis.] CXL. CUPULIFEK/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 617 



53. Q. encleisocarpa, Kortli. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 208, t. 45; 

 glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate obtusely caudate or acuminate 

 entire base acute subglaucous beneath with 6-8 pairs of strong arched 

 nerves, involucres long and stoutly pedicelled depressed or globose "then 

 smooth or obscurely belted not quite surrounding the densely velvety 

 white nut. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 104 ; Hiquel Fl. Ind. Sat. i. i. 862 ; Ann. 

 Mus. i. 116 ; Wenziff in Jahrb. Sot. Gart. Berl. iv. 238. 



PERAK, King's Collector. PENANG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1531), Curtis, &c- 

 SINGAPORE, Cantley. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A tree, GO-SO ft. Brandies slender, black when dry. Leases 3-7 in., dark grey 

 or brown above, polished or not ; nerves slender, raised on both surfaces, reticulate 

 beneath ; petiole in., slender. Male spikes very slender, puberulaus. Involucre 

 1-1.; In. diam.., base flat or intruded; pedicel -f in., very stout indeed, conical, 

 margin thin split and torn. Nut silvery white with retrorse hairs, umbo ringed, 

 endocarp with intruded plates. 



Var. aperta, King mss. ; involucre more open. Perak, Scortechini, King's 

 Collector. 



hECT. VI. LiTUOCAFxrus. Male spikes stiff, erect. Styles as in Pasania. 

 I,irol. of fruit large, woody, ovoid or urceolate, turbinate or subglobose, 

 completely enclosing (except in Q. costata) and more or less adnate to the 

 nut, tubercled or concentrically or 'obliquely belted. Leaves quite entire 

 in all. 



* Involucre of fruit zoned. 



54. Qo costata, Blume Bijd. 522; Fl. Jav. Oupulif. 26, t. 14 ; Mus. 

 Bot. i. 302; glabrous, leaves coriaceous oblong or elliptic obtusely caudate 

 entire narrowed into the petiole, nerves 10-12 pairs very obscure above 

 faint beneath there pale and reticulated, involucre very stoutly pedicelled 

 thick woody very broadly turbinate belted with acute concentric ridges or 

 belts adnate to the base and incurved over the sides of the large disciform 

 convex-topped woody glabrous nut. 



PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



A tree, 60-80 ft. Leaves 4-6 in., subglaucous beneath, midrib raised above ; 

 petiole -J-g- in., rather slender. Involucres 1^-2 in. diam., hoary, concentric ridges 

 acute, one forming a prominent edge to the broadest part of the involucre, suc- 

 ceeded by smaller ones towards its acute incurved margin. Nut ^ in. high by 1^ 

 diam., walls thick, laminated with intruded vertical plates, base convex. 



55. Q. JVTaingayiJ, BentJi. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1315 ; branches and 

 fruit finely rusty-tomentose, leaves coriaceous long-petioled elliptic oblong 

 or obovate-oblong acuminate entire pale beneath, nerves 14-20 pairs faint 

 above very strong spreading and subarched beneath, involucres very stoutly 

 pedicelled thick woody tuibinately obovoid subtruncate distinctly belted, 

 nut adnate to the involucre except at the flattened tomentose top which is 

 exposed or not. 



PENANG, Maine/ay (Kew Distrib. 1464), Curtis. 



A very large tree. Leaves 10-20 by 3-4 in., grey, hardly glaucous beneath, base 

 acute ; petiole 1 in. Involucres with the thick pedicel 1^-2 in. long, sometimes 

 decurved, with one or two slightly raised concentric belts on the side, top 1 in. 

 broad, contracted into an umbo (not of the nut). Nut J in. diam., confluent with the 

 walls of the involucre, inner walls with intruded lamella?. 



56. Q. Beccariana, Benth. in Hook. Ic. P/.t.l315; glabrous, leaves 

 coriaceous petioled elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate entire base acute 



