242 ON SOME ASIATIC CORYLACES. 
4. Quercus sclerophylla, Lindl., left by A. De Candolle, whe hal 
seen no specimens, amongst the doubtful a is a remarkable 
species. It is a somewhat aberrant member of t e group of the 
Eupasania, from which it forms, I think, a direct transition to 
section Chlamydobalanus, through Q. cuspidat a, §. & Z., which it 
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sgh <A Ps ash ie Seok Sa > a le 
J seme ere as may be see comparison of young fruit of the 
rape though more numerous and fully developed; and this affint nity 
further indicated by the curious levtiastien ce that, — the cup 
does not cover le acorn, it ashe i —_— irregularl he latter 
. 8 arra i cular distant concentric 
circles, these A tee being glabrous at the tips ce frequen M yn a 
| Sree as in genuine species of Castan r 4 
precisely as in ge sp f 4 
of this I am indebted . the liberality of Dr. Schoffer, Director of the E 
Buitenzorg Gardens, who has given me full authority to descri ribe and 
23 it as In 
Quercus discocarpa, sp. nov.—Ramulis purpurascentibus glabris 
lenticeliatis, foliis brevipetiolatis e basi cuneata oblongo- “Janceoati “ 
acuminatis integerrimis coriaceis glabris 3-6 pollicaribus supra luel- 2 
dulis subtus opacis et pallide cinnamomeis costulatis costulis utrinque 
9 sub angulo 40° egressis, fructibus ad apices ramulorum aggregatis 
oppositis crasse cane ry ais a subtus concayis supra convex!s 
—- ammodo r fungiform om 4 lin. tantum altis diamett 
ib es 
pyramidata pallide brunnea sericea stylo crasso brevi co 
In ins. Bangka Archipelagi Malayani. aE Hort. “Bogor ia 
hand to Q. Jughuhnsi, Migq., and on the other to Castanopsis &€ 
29 Bite 7 DC. Alphonse De Candolle and Oersted, however; assign 1 
* They are very — oo Oersted’s figure of those of Q- onesie i, 
(Apercu, tab, i. i-ii, f 24.) The distinction ; drawn b by this author ewes 4 
connate aes of "Cyclobalanus and the free ones of Pasania, and their 
length in the two, is perhaps too absolute t, 2). 
t tas sid t well figured in Siebold and Zuccarini i’s plate. Eee | 
¢ Oudemans, Annot. crit., in Cupulif. javan., t. ix. f 1 
