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base; upper surface green, brown when dry, shining, somewhat 
bullate, glabrous, lower yellowish when fresh, brown when dry, 
often puberulous along the midrib near the base otherwise glabrous ; 
margins recurved when dry; 20—45 cm. long, 5—8 cm. broad ; 
midrib stout, flattened and slightly raised on the upper, much raised 
on the lower, surface ; main nerves 12—20 pairs, distant, impressed 
above, straight at first or slightly curved to near the margin and 
then prominently curved to join in loops; transverse nervules few, 
irregular, not prominent ; reticulation minutely areolate but obscure ; 
petiole very stout, 5—10 mm. long. Spikes: & slender, erect, up 
to 15—20 cm. long from the axils of the perulate scales of the 
terminal shoots, which shoots elongate and are tawny-villous like 
the spike-rhachises ; bracteoles ovate, acuminate, villous, 2—3 mm. 
long: @ slender, up to 20 cm. long; rhachis tawny-villous; brac- 
teoles long lanceolate. Flowers: g single or in clusters of few 
together at short intervals along the spikes ; perianth-lobes 6, ovate, 
subacute, villous, 1:5 mm. long ; stamens 12, with slender filaments 
and small globose anthers; pistillode rather small, circular, villous: 
2 solitary, scaly, imbricate, perianth-lobes shorter than in 3’, styles 
short, glabrous, spreading. Fruits in very long (often 40 cm.) 
spikes, the fertile mixed with many abortive, single or in pairs; 
rhachis stout, tawny-villous; pedicel 0 or under 2 mm. long; cupule 
in young fruits enclosing half the conical glabrous prominently 
umbonate acorn, when mature saucer-shaped closely velvety within 
and with the margins finally reflexed, 15—25 mm. in diam. and 
5 mm. high embracing the base of the acorn, the scales ovate, acute, 
puberulous, reddish, closely appressed even to the apex; acorn 
ovoid-cylindric, glabrous, 20—25 mm. high and 17—22 mm. in diam. ; 
umbo rounded, blunt, rather short, stigmas persistent. Quercus 
Falconert, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. IL. 197 (1875), For. Fi. II. 
485 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 608; King in Ann. Calc. II. 42 t. 34. 
Quercus minor, Ridl. in Journ. Str. Br. R. As. Soc. No. 57, 95(1910). 
Kerpau: Langkawi Island, Curtis 1677!, Ridley 9836!, 15494, 
15791!; Alor Sta., Radley 14960!. Perak: in Upper Perak at 
about 20 m. alt., Wray 3410!, 3776!; at Temango, Ridley 14689!. 
Distris. Tenasserim Falconer 458!, Lace 4768 !. 
8. Pasanta Lamponaa, Gamble. A large tree reaching a height 
of 18—24 m. and 60—90 cm. in diam. of stem; branches spreading ; 
branchlets fairly stout, dark-brown to black, smooth, marked by 
numerous very prominent pale lenticels, glabrous or the youngest 
