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curved slightly to just within the margin and then suddenly bent 
parallel to it; transverse nervules many, arched, often branching, 
enclosing the minute reticulation; petiole stout, tomentose, 3—5 
mm. long. Flowers not known. Fruits sessile, solitary in axillary 
dense spikes under 10 cm. long of which the peduncle about half 
that length and, with the rhachis, fulvous-tomentose ; cupule fulvous- 
tomentose, much depressed, 2 cm. in diam., 1 cm. high, when young 
almost discoid, enveloping the whole acorn and completely covered 
with stout simple at first incurved afterwards radiating rather soft 
spines which are usually hooked at the apex; acorn depressed, 
fulvous-sericeous. Quercus Wrayii, King in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. 
Cale. II. 77, t. 104 (1889). 
Perak: at Kota, Wray 2854!. Panane: at Telom, Ridley 
13727}. 
The description of the fruits is perforce taken from immature specimens. 
30. Pasanra pDiscocaRPa, Gamble. A large tree reaching 
30—40 m. in height and up to 120 cm. in diam. of stem ; branchlets 
purplish-brown with conspicuous large usually oblong lenticels ; 
resting-buds small ovoid with ovate scales. Leaves coriaceous ; 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate and usually mucro- 
nate at apex, acute at base; upper surface glabrous, deep green 
when fresh olivaceous when dry, shining, lower paler and brown 
when fresh, with minute appressed cinnamonuous pubescence ; 8—16 
em. long, 3—5 em. broad ; midrib rather slender, slightly impressed 
above ; main nerves 8—10 pairs, curving gradually to and along the 
margin, thin but prominent beneath; transverse nervules many, 
subregular, obscure as is the reticulation; petiole 5—8 mm. long. 
Spikes about 10 cm. long in erect terminal spreading tomentose 
panicles, lower ones many and ¢, the 2 few and near the top of 
the panicles only; bracteoles minute, broad, obtuse, °5 mm. long, 
those of 2 smaller and more acute. Flowers: 3 very small in 
clusters of 2—4; perianth-lobes nearly free, ovate, about -7 mm. 
long, pubescent; stamens 12, filaments slender, anthers globose ; 
pistillode of many separable villous scales: ? solitary; perianth- 
lobes very small; styles 3, subulate, spreading. Frwit sessile, hemis- 
pheric- or turbinate-conic, minutely tawny-pubescent, 1°5 cm. long, 
2 cm. in diam.; cupule thin, completely enclosing the whole acorn 
except the umbo, concave at base and bearing scattered tufts or 
broken lines of simple or branching spreading pubescent sharp spines 
up to 8 mm. long; acorn minutely appressed-pubescent with retrorse 
