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brown when dry; margins entire, recurved; variable in size, 8—20 
em. long, 3—8 cm. broad; midrib very stout, raised on both surfaces ; 
main nerves 10—20 pairs, not prominent, irregular, at first nearly 
straight, near the margin branching angularly and anastomosing, 
transverse nervules an irregular much branched reticulation; petiole 
stout, short, 5—10 mm. long, glabrous. Spikes up to 20 cm. long 
in close panicles terminal or axillary to the uppermost leaves, ¢ most 
numerous, 2 apparently less numerous and solitary, androgynous 
very frequent the ¢ flowers above the ? below; rhachis slender, 
angular, grey-puberulous ; bracts linear-subulate, nearly 1 cm. long. 
bracteoles ovate, 1 mm. long. Flowers: ¢ solitary or in clusters 
of usually 3 together; perianth cup-shaped, 1 mm. long, pubescent, 
lobes 6, broadly ovate; stamens 12, filaments long, anthers very small 
globular; pistillode large, pale, densely villous: 9 solitary or in 
clusters of 2—3, cupule rather thick, perianth as in ¢ but smaller, 
styles small, conical. Fruits usually solitary in spikes of about 
15 cm. long with very thick rhachises deeply pitted with the 
prominent scars of abortive flowers ; pedicel 0; cupule when young 
embracing nearly the whole acorn, when mature only its base, 
2-5—3°5 cm. in diam., 5 mm. deep, saucer-shaped or flat, grey tomen- 
tose, the base of the much intruded; lamellae 8—13, when young 
very thick, the inner ones much inflexed and very narrow, when - 
mature narrower the margin slightly undulate; acorn hemispheric 
hardly depressed at apex, truncate at base with a very broad 
attachment, smooth shining, glabrous except sometimes around 
the minute conical umbo, 3—3:5 in. in diam. 15—20 mm. high; 
pericarp thick, woody, the endocarp intruded in plates, star-like, into 
the seed. Quercus lucida, Roxb. Fl Ind. III. 635 (1832); Mig. FI. 
Ind. Bat. I. i, 863 and Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 166; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 614; King. Ann. Calc. II. 69, t. 64. @Q. cuneata, Herb. 
Roxb.; Wall. Cat. 3732. 
PenanG: Maingay K.D. 1526!; King’s Collector 1810!; half 
way up Penang Hill, G. King!; at Chalet, Curtis 930!. Prrax: 
generally on low ground and up to 15) m. alt., King’s Collector 
3990!, 5086!, 5279!, 5307!, 5325!, 5351!, 5429!, 5675! 5682!, 
6198!, 6500!, 6914!; at lower camp, Gunong Batu Putih, 1000 
m. alt., Wray 998!, 1190!, at Waterfall hill, 600 m. alt., Wray 2217!, 
at Selama, Wray 4177. Sincapore: King’s Collector 1255!; at 
Teban, Ridley! ; at Chenchu-Kang, Ridley 1603!; at Bukit Mandai, 
Ridley 3414a!; Machado}. 
