FEMALE: Calyx rugose; turbinate, umbi- 
licate. Ovary three to five-celled, each 
cell containing two ovula attached by a 
thread to its summit. Acorns large, de- 
pressed, umbilicate, with a short mucro. 
Cup flat, embracing the nut for about half 
its height, nearl nch in diameter, 
rough with angular imbricated tubercles, 
which are large towards the base, and be- 
come small towards the edge. 
BS. is is a very splendid species 
from the great size of its racemes and 
acorns. Punning-punning is the generic 
appellation of the Oaks in Malay; in the 
jang dialect they are called Pasang. 
W. J. 
Foliis elliptico-oblongis acumine gracili 
integerrimis glaberrimis, fructibus spi- 
catis, calyce fructus subhemispherico 
limbo patente. 
Native of Sumatra. 
A Tree with rough bark. Leaves alter- 
nate, petiolate, elliptic-oblong, terminated 
y a long, slender acumen, very entire, 
smooth, coriaceous, pale beneath; eight to 
nine inches long. Fruit on lateral racemes. 
Acorns rounded and flattened at top, um- 
bilicate in the centre, and mucronate with 
the three short, persistent styles, rather 
perpendicular at the sides, half embraced 
by the calyx, which is cup-shaped, marked 
on the outer surface with small, acute, scaly 
points, concentrically arranged, and whose 
QUERCUS URCEOLARIS. 
is lodged in the bottom of the large funnel- 
shaped calyx. The acorn contains a sin- 
gle exalbuminous seed, placed a little 
‘obliquely. 
Oss. The spreading limb of the cups 
forms a good distinctive character, and 
renders this a very remarkable and curious 
~ ARECA TIGILLARIA. W.J. 
Frondibus pinnatis, Eur acutis, spadici- 
bus ramosis, flore unico femineo inter 
duos masculos, atibus globosis. 
Nibong, Malay. 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
covering. 
likewi 
Abundant in Sumatra and the J 
Islands, where it is much used in the c 
struction of houses, &c. 
Trunk erect, generally thicker than tha 
of the common Pisang (Areca Catechu) 
armed, particularly on the lower part, wi 
straight, slender, flattened spines. Fronds 
ae leaflets linear, acuminate, reflexed - 
t the edges so as to make the upper sur- - 
E convex, smooth, with a few brownish — 
scales on the middle nerve of the younger | 
ones; they diminish in size to the top Bé 
the frond, and the last two are partly united - 
at their base. Stipes of the frond scaly 
while young, compressed, grooved above. 
The sheaths armed like the trunk. Spadir | 
within the sheath of the frond, embracing 
the stem, flattened at the base, much 
branched; flower bearing branchlets about 
two feet long, drooping, the lower ones 
three to four together, the uppermost soli- 
tary or in pairs. Spathe single, completely 
inclosing the spadix before expansion, 
compressed, two-edged, deciduous, partial 
spathes none. Flowers sessile, one female 
between two males ; the latter considerably 
the largest, and deciduous. Male herma- 
phrodite. Perianth. six-parted, the outer 
leaflets small, the inner much longer, and - 
ed by three linear styles. : 
anth six-parted; leaflets nearly equal, 
rounder and shorter than those of the male. 
Stamina none. Stigmas three. Fruit 
globose, about the size of a carabine bullet, 
of a deep purple colour when ripe, with a 
glaucous tint, containing under a redd 
pulp a single smooth, globular nut. 
one-seeded, having a thickened whitish 
scar on the side, and a small areola at the | 
base, opposite to the embryo. Seed solid ; 
albumen oe: embryo Pailin short, 
cylindrical, obtus 
Oss. This differs from the common - 
zoe in the disposition of the flowers on — 
he spadices, and in having the nut con- 
eee, under a pulpy and not a fibrous 
In A. Catechu the ovary i$ 
wise monosporous. 
