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rous above, softly pubescent beneath, the nerves and the lax net- 
veination prominent; inflorescence apparently velvety-tomentose, ° 
the rachis in fruit very long and thick ; fruits regularly connate by 
2-5, rarely the one or other free ; nuts ovoid, acute, 6-7 lin. long, 
smooth and glossy, exserted; cup concave, up to 4 an in. in dia- 
meter, tawny or greyish velvety-tomentose, the scales in young 
fruit rather indistinct, thick and appressed, at length becoming 
quite obsolete, and forming 4-5, somewhat swollen, entire or obso- 
letely scaly, concentric rings. 
Has.—Ava hills. 
gre 
lete ; fruiting peduncle only up to 2 in. long, apparently glabrous, 
aring 1 or 2 fruits; nut ovoid, nearly 9-10 li 
Has.—Stunted hill forests of the top of Nattoung, in Martaban, at 6,000 
to 7,000 ft. elevation.—Fr. March.—l.—SS.=Metam. 
* % Cup consisting of lamellate, entire, erenate or toothed con- 
centric rings or zones. 
_ 12. Q, velutina, Ldl.—A tree (40—60 + 15—20+4 4—5), shed- 
ding leaves in H.S., the young parts densely tawny- or brown- 
villous ; leaves lanceolate to elliptically lanceolate, on a fulvous-villous 
Somewhat glak t petiole about $ in. long, 6-9 in. long, acuminate 
at both ends, rigidly chartaceous, serrate towards the apex, while 
very young densely villous-tomentose, at length glabrous and 
dark-green, the nerves curved, thin, and, like the rather lax ne 
Veination, conspicuous; male catkins long and slender, tawny- 
villous ; fruiting peduncles very short and thick, bearing only 1-3 
fruits; nuts in the first year much depressed, yellowish or golden- 
villous with a short blunt knob bearing the short spreading stigmas, 
when fully ripe ovoid, glabrous, shorter than an inch, the cup very 
shallow (also in the perfect fruit), densely fulvous- or tawny- 
Villous, with 6 or more lamellate, erose-toothed, concentric rings. 
Hap.—F i e eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah 
on Martins down Seuiicunrvealy eitéting the Sicipical forénta on 
laterite—F1 March-Apr.; Fr, the following year.—s.—SS,=Lat. p. Metam 
