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9. Flowers: 3 chiefly in clusters or sometimes solitary, bract 
1 to each cluster ; perianth 5—6-lobed, the lobes thin ovate, villous 
without glabrous within, 1—1:5 mm. long; stamens 9—12, with long 
slender filaments; pistillode villous: 9 single or in clusters of 2—3, 
unibracteate ; cup densely clothed with scales having long points 
that enlarge into soft spines; perianth lobes short, inconspicuous ; 
styles 3, cylindric. Fruits clustered or solitary in spikes up to 
15 em. long; cupule velvety, sessile, flattened at base, ovoid above, 
2—2°5 cm. in diam., 1—1‘5 cm. in height, embracing nearly the 
whole acorn when young and one-half or more when ripe, covered 
with distant soft curved spines about 4 mm. long these spines 
being the free apices of the closely adherent scales ; acorn ovoid- 
conic, about 2cm. high, sofuvly and densely silky, crowned by an 
umbo formed of the persistent styles. Schky in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
XLVII. 675. Quercus lappacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 637 (1832); 
Wight Ic. t. 220; Wall. Cat. 2780; A. DC. in Prodr. XVI. ii. 87; 
Kurz For. Fl. II. 484; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. IV. 223; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 607; King Ann. Calc. IT. 41, t. 33; Brandis 
Ind. Trees 629. Q. hirsuta, Lindl. in Wall. Cat.3734. Q. Mackiana, 
Hoole Ic. Pl. t. 224. 
PERAK: in open forest near water at 90—120 m. alt. King’s 
Collector 39191; Scortechini!.—DistRip. India (Khasia Hills and 
Sylhet), Burma. 
As pointed out by King the acorn-cups in Malay specimens more fully 
enclose the acorns than do those of Indian and Burmese specimens. 
2. Pasania Kinerana, Gamble in Kew Bull. 177 (1914). A 
tree ; branchlets stout, short, knotty, the bark dark brown, scaly, 
sparsely lenticellate ; bud-scales short, ovate, obtuse, puberulous. 
Leaves very coriaceous, glabrous; ovate, obtusely acute at apex, 
rounded at base and then decurrent on the petiole; dark green 
when fresh, olive-brown when dry, the upper surface shining; mar- 
gin recurved; 6-12 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad; midrib stout. 
slightly raised and channelled near the base on the upper surface, 
prominent on the lower ; main nerves 6—8 pairs, starting along the 
midrib at first then curved to the margin where they fade in dim- 
inishing loops ; transverse nervules irregular, enclosing the promi- 
nently areolate reticulation ; petiole stout, about 4mm. long. Spikes 
10—20 cm. long with stout angular puberulous rhachises, ¢ 2 and 
androgynous mixed, the ? usually uppermost, axillary to the 
uppermost leaves. Flowers solitary, in androgynous spikes, the 2 
