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fulvous or ashy tomentose; bracts ovate lanceolate very caducous. 
Flowers: 3 solitary or in rather loose clusters; bracts ovate-subulate 
about 1 mm. long; perianth-lobes 6, short (under 1 mm. long), 
ovate, obtuse or slightly acute, spreading, villous without; stamens 
12 or more, with slender filaments and very small globose anthers; 
pistillode large, round, very villous: 2 solitary or in groups of 
2—4: bracts as in o'; perianth-lobes ovate shorter than in o, 
pedicel and base covered with subulate blunt often reflexed scales; 
styles 3, conical, divergent. Frutis in stout erect spikes 10—15 
em. long, single or rarely in groups of 2—4; pedicels stout, about 
4 mm. long, scaly; cupules saucer-shaped, flat, the margins incurved 
when immature at first quite embracing the acorn, later half 
embracing it, erect when ripe, 15—23 mm. in diam., 2—3 mm. 
deep and so embracing only the base of the acorn; scales broadly 
ovate, connate, tawny-pubescent, sometimes more or less in rings, 
the apices sharp, spreading or even deflexed ; acorn globose-conic or 
ovoid-conic, glabrous, the base truncate when ripe, 2 cm. high 
and 2°5 cm. in diam.; umbo prominent, sharp, often 2—3 mm. 
long, with the remains of the styles. Schky in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
XLVII. 675. Quercus sundaica, Blume Verh. Bat. Genootsch. 1X. 
216 (1825), Bijdr. 520, Fl. Jav. Cupul. 11, t. 2—3 and Mus. Bot.- 
Lued.-Bat. I. 292; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, I. 1. 850 and Ann. Mus. Lugd.- 
Bat. I. 109; A. DC, Prodr. XVI. ii. 89; Oudem. Annot. Cupul. Jav. 
11; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 611; King Ann. Cale. II. 51, tt. 
47, 48; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. XI. 31; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jay. 
II. 63. Q. mappacea, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 202; Mig. FI. Ind. 
Bat. I. i. 850. @Q. Korthalsit, var. mappacea, Blume Mus. Bot. !. 
293; A. DC. Le. 90. @Q. pseudomolucca, Bl. vars. Korthalsit and 
sundaica, Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. I 227. Q. muricata, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 635. 
Penane: Maingay K.D. 1530!; on Penang hill G. King/; 
Government Hill, Vern. ‘ Brangen Babie’ Curtis 442!; at elevations 
of from 300 to 750 m., King’s Collecior 1622!, 1627!, 1692!, 
1780!, 22641, 2274!, 2282!, 2284!, 4837!, 4840!; at Bellevue, Ridley 
10784!. Perak: in forest up to about 750 m., Larut, King’s Collec- 
tor 2232!, 3272!, 3341!, 3502!, 3681!, 3866!, 3944! 4870! 4944!, 
5543! 6583! 7013!, 7241!, 7254!, 7371!; at Thaipeng, Wray 3103!; 
Scortechini!. Mauacca: at Hulu Chemliong, Derry 1131!; at Ayer 
Panas, Ridley 1113! (doubtful). Jonore: at Kwala Sembrong, Lake 
and Kelsall 4014!.—Disrris. Java,Sumatra (Forbes 2933!, 3144!). 
Borneo. Vern. ‘ Mempening Bagan’ (Ridiey). 
