418 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
lowest, passing into afew ¢ then into ¢@ only, all with lanceolate 
bracteoles 2 mm. long and cushions of imbricating tawny-pubescent 
triangular scales; perianth of 3 cup-shaped, 2 mm. long, very 
villous, lobes 6, ovate-acute, 1 mm. long, that of 2 similar but 
smaller; stamens 12 or less, filaments slender, short in ¢ flowers, 
anthers ovate; pistillode in ¢ villous; styles in 9 cylindric, 2°5 
mm. long, conspicuous. J'ruits when young having cupules covered 
with spreading scales about 3 mm. long and minutely puberulous ; 
when mature the cupules cup-shaped on a stout scaly pedicel 6 mm. 
long, 2—2°5 cm. long, the lips recurved, 2°5—3 cm. in diam. embra- 
cing about two-thirds of the acorn; scales near the base large, ovate, 
cuspidate-acuminate, spreading, often 5 mm. long, near the mouth 
the scales are smaller by degrees; acorn ovoid-globose from a 
flattened base, tawny-velvety, 2—2°7 cm. in diam., 1°5—2 cm. high; 
umbo thick. 
Perak: at Gunong Bubu, Larut, 1350 m. alt., Wray 3910!, at 
Gunong Inas. 1500 m. alt., Wray 4155!. Panane: at Gunong 
Brumbez, 2100 m. alt., Wray 1586!. 
3. Pasanta ScortTecHinit, Schky in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 
676 (1912). A large tree reaching 18—30 m. in height and 90 em. in 
diam. of stem; branchlets stout, purplish-black, sparsely lenti- 
cellate. Leaves coriaceous; oblong or elliptic, obtuse or subacute 
at apex, cuneate at base; margins entire, reflexed ; both surfaces 
glabrous, glossy green with a bluish tinge when fresh, reddish brown 
when dry, upper shining; 10—20 cm. long, 4—5 cm. broad ; mid- 
rib slender, ra sed on both surfaces; main nerves 8—10 pairs, raised 
beneath, curving to and along the margin ; transverse nervules few, 
irregular ; reticulation areolate, obscure; petiole stout, wrinkled, 
9—12 cm. long. Spikes in fruit erect, solitary, subterminal, very 
stout, about 10 cm. long. Flowers not known. Fruit very large, 
sessile ; cupule woody, saucer-shaped, the margin incurved, 3 cm. 
in diam. 1 cm. high, covered thickly externally with soft conical 
pubescent scales, embracing only the base of the acorn; acorn 
cylindro-globular, shining, chestnut-brown, truncate at base, slightly 
depressed at top and crowned by an umbo formed of the persistent 
style 25cm. in height and diam. Quercus Scortechinii, King in 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 608 (1888) and Ann. Cale. II. 43, t. 35 A. 
PERAK: in open forest on a hillside at about 1000 m. alt., 
Larut, King’s Collector 2188 !. 
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