420 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
in diam. of stem ; branchlets stout with dark grey or blackish bark, 
the lenticels conspicuous and usually in vertical lines, young shoots 
sometimes puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, shining, glabrous; ellip- 
tic-oblong or -lanceolate or -oblanceolate or -obovate, sometimes 
panduriform, acuminate often obtusely at apex, the acumen usually 
curved sideways, attenuate at base, sometimes rounded or subauri- 
culate; 10—30 cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad; midrib stout, prominent 
on both surfaces; main nerves 10—20 pairs, slender, subparallel, 
raised on both surfaces, arched near the margin ; transverse nervules 
indistinct and irregular, enclosing the areolate reticulation ; petiole 
short or long, 0°5—2°5 cm. long, flattened. Spikes erect, in terminal 
panicles or fasicles, usually dicecious, occasionally the ¢ spikes 
bearing a few 92; often reaching 25—30 cm. long, minutely grey- 
tomentose. Flowers: 3 insessile clusters, crowded above, separate 
below, supported by an ovate acuminate or subulate bract 1—3 mm. 
long ; sometimes bracteolate; perianth-lobes usually 6, very short, 
obtuse, villous without, glabrous within; stamens 10—12 with 
slender glabrous filaments and small ovate anthers ; pistillode large, 
villous, often oblong, flattened at top: 2 in clusters of 83—5 or 
distinct ; perianth 6-lobed; styles very small. Fruits when ripe 
densely crowded on a stout erect woody rhachis, reaching 20 or more 
cm. in length, single or in clusters of 3—5; when single, bearing 
usually the abortive cupules at the base of the fertile one; cupule 
saucer-shaped, embracing at most the lower third of the acorn and 
sometimes less, the margin acute, the scales broadly ovate-apiculate, 
appressed, imbricate, pubescent when young, glabrous when old; 
acorn ovoid-conic to depressed-globose, smooth when ripe, the 
umbo very smail. Schky.in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 664. Quercus 
spicata, Smith in Rees Enac. XXIX.12; G. Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 56; 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar. I. 40, t. 46 and Cat. 2781 A and B; Miq. Fi. Ind. 
Bat. I. i. 848 and Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 106; A. DC. in Prodr. 
XVI. ii. 85; Kurz For. Fl. II. 486; Brandis For. Fl. 489 and Ind. 
Trees 629; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 609; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. 
Gart. Berl. IV. 224; Oudem. Annot. Cupul. Jav. 5. 6, t. 1, 4 fig. 1; 
Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 39; King in Ann. Cale. II. 47, t. 41; 
Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. II. 65. Q. squamata, Roxb. FI. Ind. IIT. 
638: Wight Ic. t. 213. Q. grandifolia, G. Don in Spreng. Syst. IIT. 
856; Prodr. Fl. Nep. 57. Q. Arcaula, Ham. Ms. in Spreng. Syst. IIT. 
857; Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 290. @Q. elegans, Blume in 
Bataav. Verh. IX. 208, Bijdr. 518 and FI. Jav. Cupul. 21, t. 10; 
Oudem. Annot, Cupul. Jav. 5,9, t. 2, 3. @Q. pyrifolia, Blume Mus. 
