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Apex of Glans niore or less depressed. 



Leaves lanceolate, acnminate, glancous beneath, sometimes entire. 



15. Qu. lineata Blume. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, blunt, not glancous, coarsely 

 serrate. 16. Qu. mespilifolia Wall, 



Glans turbinate. 



Glans only half enveloped by the cupule. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, blunt, tomentose beneath. 



17. Qu. Helferiana DC. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. 18. Qu. velutina Lindl. 



Glans almost quite covered by the large, loos.ely-lamellate cupule. 



19. Qu. lamellosa Smith. 

 3. Section: III. Pasania. 



Male spikes erect, simple or panicled ; female fiowers on short distinct 

 spikes or the base of some of the male panicles ; involucres solitary or in 

 groups of three, cap-shaped, saucer- shaped, or discoid: the bracts imbri- 

 cate free or united by their bases only, the apices always free ; leaves 

 entire. 



Glans conspicuously longer than broad. 

 Glans cylindric-conic. 



Leaves obovate to obovate oblong. 20. Qu. Lindleyana Wall. 

 Leaves broadly elliptic-oblong, puberulous. 



21* Qu. scyphigera Kance. 

 Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, glabrous or glabrescent, cupule 

 covering only a fifth of the glans. 22. Qu. Kunstleri King. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, always glabrous ; cupule covering half 

 the glans. 23. Qu. Amherstiana Wall, 



ilans ovoid. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate. 6.12 in. long, glabrous, glans not much 

 narroved to the apex. 24. Qu. acuminata Eoxb. 



Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate narrowed to the base, 5 — 7 in. 

 long glans smooth, narrowed in upper half. 



33. Qu. spicata var. Collettii Chittagonga. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate,, 5 — 7 in. long, glans pubescent, much 



narrowed in the upper half; cupule with "long spreadins bristly 



tubercles. 25. Qu. lappacea Koxb. 



xlans sub-globose, the base truncate. 



Cupule wider than glans; its edge ovary. 26. Qu. Falconeri Kurz. 

 Cupule not wider than the base of the glans ; edge not wavy. 

 Cupule flat, discoid ; its bracts free, spreading, spiny. 



27. Qu. Scortechinii King. 

 Cupule saucer-shaped, its bracts broadly ovate, imbricate, adpressed. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate. 28. Qu. pseudo-Molucca Blume. 



Leaves dimorphous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-rotund. 



29. Qu. monticola nov. spec. 

 Glans hemispheric not conspicuously longer than broad, 

 Cupule covering almost the whole of the glans. 

 Cupules always connate, leaves lanceolate. 



30. Qu. pachyphylla Kurz. 

 Cupules crowded, connate or solitary. 



Leaves glabrous. 31. Qu. fenestrata Eoxb. 



Leaves pale and minutely tomentose beneath. 



31. Qu. dealbata Hook. f. et Thomps. 

 Cupule covering only the lower part of the glans. 

 — Leaves glabrous on both surfaces. 



Leaves ovate, the base rounded or cordate, cupules mostly 

 connate. 



33. Qu. spicata Smith variet. hrevipetiolata, depressa, 



Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, not cordate at the 



base ; cupules sometimes connata. 33. Qu. spicata Smith, 



and variet. glaberrima, microcalyx and yracilipes. 



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