430 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
long-peduncled spikes up to about 10—12 em. long, the rhachises 
woody, but not very stout; pedicel none; cupules in quite young 
fruit cup-shaped and embracing haif the acorn, later on quite flat 
and thin, 18 mm. in diameter, applied to the base of the acorn; 
scales closely connate, imbricate, appressed, only the minute apices 
free; acorn when young flattened hemispheric-conical, when old 
ovoid, puberulous, 2 em. high and as much in diam.; umbo con- 
spicuous. Quercus Curtisii, King in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 612 
(1888) andin Ann. Calc. If. 56, t. 52. 
Penance: at Waterfall, G. King, August 1879!; Curtis 1253!; 
in forest up to 240m. alt., King’s Coilector, 4833!, 4836 ! 4832! 4854!. 
Perak: at Larut up to 300 m. alt., King’s Collector 3304!, 4902!, 
10678!. SELaNGcor: at Rawang, Ridley 12062!. 
13. Pasanta conocaRpa, Schky in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XLIX 
357 (1913). A large tree reaching 18—24 m. in height and 60—90 
cm. in diam. of stem; branches spreading; branchlets stout with 
light brown bark, the youngest and young leaves densely covered 
with minute rufous stellate tomentum ; resting buds ovoid, grey- 
tomentose, their scales lanceolate, 5 mm. long, deciduous. Leaves 
coriaceous; elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, abruptly caudate-acumin- 
ate at apex for about 1 cm. the tip obtuse, acute at base; upper 
surface at first minutely stellate-puberulous, afterwards glabrous 
and shining, the midrib tomentose, lower surface stellate-tomentose, 
grey or pale brown; margins sometimes undulate ; 7—15 cm. long, 
3—6 cm. broad; midrib raised on both surfaces; main nerves 
10—14 pairs, prominent beneath, slightly curving to join in arches 
near the margin ; transverse nervules prominent, irregular and branch- 
ing; reticulation obscure; petiole 3-8 mm. long, tomentose. 
Spikes: 3 solitary and axillary, with prominent bracts, rather short, 
sometimes the 3 flowers ending the 9 spikes: 2 in terminal 
panicles up to 15 cm. long, all greyish stellate-tomentose. lowers: 
g¢ in fascicles of 1—3, sessile, bracteole lanceolate 1—2mm. long ; 
perianth-lobes very short, obtuse, subglabrous within ; stamens 12, 
with slender filaments and small globose anthers ; pistillode rather 
small, circular, densely villous: -9 solitary, bracteole as in ¢, base 
cylindric, styles 3, spreading. Fruits when ripe touching and mixed 
with many undeveloped ones; in spikes with a woody rhachis up 
to 10 cm. long; cupules puberulous, when young obovoid nearly 
completely embracing the young acorn, the lamellae few but 
prominent and denticulate, when ripe embracing only the base of 
