Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 445 
Perak : at lower camp Gunong Batu Puteh, 1000 m. alt., Wray 
1176! ‘saplings used when dry as torches in fishing by Sakais’ ; 
camp on Ulu Batang Padang 1500 m. alt. Wray 1514!:. 
27. Pasanta BuiumeEaANA, Gamble. A tree reaching 12—15 m. 
in height, branches spreading; branchlets stout, greyish-brown, 
lenticellate, the ultimate ones shining, plumbeous, minutely pul- 
verulent; resting-buds globose, the scales obtuse. Leaves coria- 
ceous ; elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or cuspidate 
at apex, acute at base; upper surface glabrous, dull or shining, 
greyish-brown when dry, lower pale, very minutely stellate-tomen- 
tose; margin entire, recurved ; 15—20 cm. long, 4—7 cm. broad; 
midrib stout, raised on both surfaces ; main nerves 12—14 pairs, 
prominent beneath, parallel, straight at first, curving somewhat 
abruptly close to and along the margin; transverse nervules many, 
parallel; reticulation obscure ; petiole very stout, 1—1-:5 cm. long. 
Spikes usually ¢ or androgynous, slender, axillary or in terminal 
panicles; rhachis minutely grey-tomentose; bracteoles minute. 
Flowers: & very small, solitary or in clusters of 3—4; perianth 
very short, lobes obtuse ; stamens with very slender filaments and 
minute ovate anthers; pistillode grey-villous: @ solitary, the in- 
volucre scaly, perianth-lobes short ; styles short, spreading. Fruzts 
depressed-turbinate, solitary in dense spikes about 10—12 cm. long, 
the rhachis very stout, rough with prominent lenticels and lepidote- 
puberulous; pedicel stout, very short, about 5 mm. long; cupules 
thin, when very young produced above the ovary, in half-ripe 
specimens enclosing the whole acorn except the umbo, grey-pubes- 
cent and covered into prominent appressed or spreading subulate 
scales, when mature covering from two-thirds to nearly the whole 
of the acorn and splitting in vertical fissures, the scales in obscure 
rings ; acorns depressed-turbinate till about half-ripe, when mature 
globose or hemispheric-conic, densely sericeous-tomentose, 1°5—2 
em. in diam. and 1—5 cm. high ; umbo conical, surmounted by the 
persistent stigmas. (Quercus Blumeana, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 
Bot. 208, t. 44 (1839—42); Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 288; A. DC. 
Prodr. XVI. ii. 103; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 863 and Ann. Mus. Lugd.- 
Bat. I. 116; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. LV. 237; Hook. f. Fl. 
Br. Ind. V. 615; King Ann. Calc. II. 75, t. 69 B; Koord. & 
Val. Bijdr. X. 57; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. II. 69. Cyclobalanus 
Blumeana, Oerst. in Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 81 (1866). 
PErak: Scortechini!; in Larut, 1000-1200 m. alt., King’s Col- 
lector 3232 !.—DistrRis.: Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
