434 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
subterminal panicles, rhachises as in @. Flowers: @ solitary; 
bracteole ovate, scarcely -6 mm. long; perianth 1—1-5 mm. long, 
tube cup-shaped, lobes 6, short, obtuse, slightly puberulous with- 
out ; stamens 12, filaments slender, anthers globose, very small ; 
pistillode large, densely villous: 9 solitary; bracteole as in ¢ , 
cupule annular, styles short, erect. Fruits when ripe nearly touch- 
ing and mixed with many undeveloped ones, in spikes with a stout 
woody rhachis up to about 7 cm. long; cupules puberulous, when 
young subcylindric with about 5 lamelle and nearly completely 
enclosing the acorn, when ripe very shortly thickly pedicelled, 
saucer-shaped, about 1 cm. high and 2 cm. in diam., embracing only 
the base of the acorn; lamelle distinct, the teeth of the scales also 
distinct though minute; acorn glabrous, ovoid-conic, 2 cm. in 
diam., 15cm. high, base deeply intruded, umbo short. Quercus 
Bennetizt, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 857 (1855), Suppl. 348 (1862), 
and Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 112; A. DC. Prodr. XVI. ii. 94 ; 
Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. IV. 235; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V. 612; King Ann. Calc. Il. 64, t. 58 A. Q. Miqueliana, Scheff. 
Obs. Phyt. II. 48, III. 94. 
PERAK: at Gunong Inas at 1500 m. alt., Wray 4095!, 4105!, 
4126!. Panane: at Kluang Terbang, Barnes 10910!. Jonore; at 
Tanjong Kupang, Hadji Senawi, etc., Ridley 6446 !, 11060!, 12515 !. 
SINGAPORE: Maingay K.D. 1460!; at Selitar, etc., Ridley 3960 !, 
6439 !.—Distris. Bangka (Teysmann, Kurz), Sumatra (Teysmann), 
Borneo (Beccari). 
17. Pasania CanTLEYANA, Gamble. A large tree reaching 
24—30 m. in height and 60—90 cm. in diam. of stem, branches 
spreading ; branchlets stout, angular, minutely lepidote-puberulous 
or glabrous, bark greyish-brown, smooth with prominent lenticels 
grouped at the bases of the fruit-spikes or in longitudinal patches 
on the internodes; bud-scales ovate, falcate, deciduous. Leaves 
vigidly coriaceous ; oblong-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, cuspidate- 
acuminate, often rather abruptly, at apex, attenuate and somewhat 
decurrent at base ; upper surface very minutely lepidote-puberulous 
or glabrous, glossy-green when fresh, shining, olive brown when 
dry, lower surface more densely lepidote-puberulous, silvery grey 
when fresh, pale brown when dry; margins entire; 10—25 cm. 
long, 4—8 cm. broad; midrib stout, prominent and raised on 
both surfaces; main nerves 12—15 pairs, parallel, prominent on 
the lower surface, at first straight or only slightly curved, then 
