452 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
2 solitary ; cupule covered with minute scales arranged in lamellae; 
perianth asin ¢ but much smaller; styles minute. Fruits in thick 
racemes, 10—15 cm. long; narrowly pyriform with truncate umbo- 
nate apex, 3°5 cm. long, 2—4 cm. in diam.; pedicel thick, erect, 
nearly 1 cm. long; cupules woody, embracing the whole acorn and 
adherent to it except at the top, smooth and minutely tomentose 
with about 3—6 obscure oblique lamellae; acorn confluent with the 
inner walls of the cupule, the flattened top sericeous ; umbo small, 
exsert; pericarp hard, corky, about 5 mm. thick, endocarp walls 
slightly intruded in narrow plates. Quercus Maingayii, Benth. in 
Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1314 (1880); Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 617; King 
Ann. Cale. II. 82 t. 77. 
Penane: Maingay K.D. 1464!: Curtis 267!. Srtancor: 15th 
mile, Pahang track, Ridley 8588 !. 
Wray 1142! from Lower Camp, Gunong Batu Putih, resembles this very 
closely in its branchlets and leaves, the only noticeable difference being that 
there are more main nerves. The fruits, however, of which there are only very 
young specimens, are in clusters of 1—3, more usually one or two abortive, but 
all connected and having cupules with irregular wavy hardened lamellae, while 
in P. Maingayit the fruits seem to be always solitary. 
Wray 1097! also from Lower Camp, Gunong Batu Putih, consists of branch- 
lets with 2 flowers in terminal panicles of spikes and a few very young con- 
spicuously lamellate fruits. It may perhaps, as suggested by Sir G. King, 
belong to P. Javensis, (Bl.) Prantl with which it agrees fairly well in leaves. 
35. Pasanta Beccariana, Prantl. in Engl. & Prantl. Naturl. 
Pflanzenfam. II1. i. 55 (1888). A tree, reaching 18—2] m. in height ; 
branchlets slender, brown, the young ones minutely fulvous-puberu- 
lous; bud-scales lanceolate about 3mm. long. Leaves subcoriaceous ; 
lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, obtusely acuminate at apex, acuminate 
at base; upper surface glabrous, shining, lower pale greyish-brown, 
minutely hoary-pubescent; margin entire; 6—9 cm. long, 2—3 cm. 
broad; midrib slender, raised above; main nerves 8—10 pairs, 
curving gradually at first, more sharply close to the margin 
which they follow ; transverse nervules many, obscure as in the reti- 
culation ; petiole slender, 1—1°5 cm. long. Spikes solitary from the 
upper leaf-axils forming a few-branched apparently terminal panicle, 
¢ upto7, 2 to6cm.long. Flowers: 3 very small, in clusters in the 
axil of an ovate pubescent bracteole ; perianth-lobes 5—6, ovate 
acute; stamens 10—12 with very slender filaments and ovoid anthers ; 
pistillode white-villous: 2 (rather old) with a subcylindric about 
8-ringed involucre; perianth very small; styles 3, short. Fruit 
