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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 419 
4. Pasanta KunstLEeri, Gamble. A tree with spreading head 
and pendulous branches reaching 12—15 m. in height and about 
60 cm. in diam. of stem; branchlets dark brown, smooth, the 
young ones paler and minutely tomentose. Leaves thinly coriace- 
ous; elliptic- or oblanceolate-oblong, acute or shortly and often 
obtusely acute at apex, rounded or cordate at base; margins entire, 
reflexed ; both surfaces minutely pubescent when young, glabrescent 
whea old except on the midrib and nerves, which, especially the 
former, are puberulous on both sides, brown or reddish-brown when 
dry; 10—23 cm. long, 4—-8 cm. broad; midrib moderately stout, 
keeled on the upper surface, prominent on the lower; main nerves 
8—12 pairs, at first straight, sharply curved near the margin to join 
in loops, those of the upper half most prominently so, impressed 
above, prominent beneath; transverse nervules distant, rather 
obscure as is the areolate reticulation ; petiole none or very short, 
under 5 mm. long, thick, pubescent. Spikes axillary and solitary 
or terminal, and in fascicles of 3—4, some ¢ only, some ?, some 
occasionally both « and 2, 10—30 cm. long; rhachis slender, 
ridged, tawny pubescent. lowers: 3 solitary, many- (about 5-) 
bracteolate; perianth of 5—6 erect tomentose oblong acute lobes 
1:5 mm. long; stamens 8—12, 3—5 mm. long with long filaments 
and minute globose anthers; pistillode thick, villous: ? (some ¢) 
also solitary, bracteolate; cup scaly, crowned by the 6-lobed erect 
perianth, shorter than in the ¢ and enclosing the thick pubescent 
style with 3 prominent diverging branches. Fruzt solitary in long 
spikes; cupules subsessile, shallowly hemispheric, 12 mm. in diam., 
7mm. deep when young, embracing more than half the acorn, when 
old only the lower fifth; the scales broadly ovate, acute, keeled, 
closely appressed, fulvous-tomentose; acorn narrowly cylindric- 
conic, glabrous, up to 2°5 cm. long and 1°5 cm. in diam., crowned 
with a conspicuous umbo contracted below the persistent perianth 
and the remains of the style. Quercus Kunstleri, King in Hook. f. 
Fl. Br. Ind. V. 606 (1888) and in Ann. Cale. II. 40, t. 31. 
PERAK : in aes places from sea level to about 300 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 2482!, 2621!, 2742!, 2953!, 3054!, 3608!, 5128 !, 
5144!, 5358!, 5406!, 5436! 5556! 5655!, 5699!, 7571!; Wray 
3138! ; at Larut, Scortechini 1567!. Smnancor: at Kwala Lumpur, 
Ridley 5110!. 
5. Pasania spicata, Oerst. in Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 83 
(1866). A large tree reaching 18—24 m. in height and 50—75 cm. 
