424 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
pulverulent. Leaves subcoriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 
rarely oblong-lanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly caudate-acu- 
minate at apex, acute at base ; leaves when fresh bright green above 
silvery grey beneath, when dry olive-brown and somewhat shining 
and glabrous above, ashy-grey and dull and slightly pubescent be- 
neath; 7— 15cm. long, 3—5 cm. broad; midrib slender, keeled above ; 
main nerves 9—10 pairs, parallel, curved gently to and along the 
margin ; transverse nervules rather scanty , subparallel, enclosing the 
areolate reticulation which is usually punctate on the upper surface; 
petiole 5—8 mm. long, channelled above. Spikes slender, ¢ or 
androgynous in many-branched terminal panicles, up to 15 cm. long, 
the androgynous spikes few the 9 flowers below; rhachises minutely 
grey-pulverulent. Flowers: 3 solitary or in groups of 2—4, rather 
distant ; bracts ovate-acute, pubescent, 1—2 mm. long; perianth 
lobes 6, rounded, 1 mm. long, crisply villous without, nearly 
glabrous within ; stamens 12 with long rather thick filaments and 
small reniform anthers; pistillode circular densely white-villous : 
@ single or in pairs; bracts as in ¢ also perianth-lobes but these are 
shorter ; styles 3, conical, spreading, glabrous. Fruits in rather 
slender erect spikes about 7—8 cm. long, the rhachises woody 
pubescent and lenticellate as the branchlets ; pedicels none or up to 
5 mm. long, stout, scaly ; cupules when quite young covered with 
soft blunt scales and enclosing the acorn, when older the scales 
apiculate and about 3—rds of the acorn enclosed, when ripe the 
cups shallow, minutely sericeous, saucer-shaped with vertical sides, 
16—18 mm. in diam. and 5—6 mm. deep embracing only the base of 
the acorn; scales broad, connate, with acute appressed apices, and 
arranged in faint but regular rings; acorns ovoid-conical, tawny- 
velvety, 15—18 mm. in diam. and nearly 2 cm. high; umbo sharp, 
under 1 mm. long. Quercus Lamponga, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 
348 (1862); A. DC. Prodr. XVI. ii. 95; Mig. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 
T. 109; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. [V. 229; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 611; King Ann. Calc. IT. 53, t. 49. @Q. brevipetiolata, Scheff. 
Observ. Phyt. II. 47. Cyclobalanus Lamponga, Oerst. in Kjoeb. 
Vidensk. Meddel. 81 (1866). 
Province WELLESLEY: at Nibong Tebal, Curtis 3471!. Prax: 
in dense forest up to 150 m. alt., Larut, King’s Collector 3878 !, 
5413!, 6455!, 6479!, 6490!, 6578!, 6756!, 6910!, 7278!; Larut, 
Scortechint 1472!, etc. ; at Lower Camp, Gunong Batu Putih, Wray 
7468!; at Thaipeng, Wray 26998! SinaaroRe: Pulau Ubin, Ridley 
