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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



beneath; nerves prominent beneath, the lowermost pair 

 springing from the base and running along the margins until 

 they anastomose with the upper ones. Petioles brown, with 

 cracked skin. Berries 1 — 3, axillary, pedicelled, pedicels 

 shorter than the petioles, smooth. Involucra globose, 

 orange colored when ripe, smooth with some whitish spots, 

 as large as a currant. Florets numerous pedicellate. 

 Female ones with a 4 — 5 parted perianth. Style inserted 

 laterally, seed naked. 



Obs, — The bark of this species is fibrous, and I am in- 

 formed, that it is employed in Menangkabau in the fabrica- 

 tion of a coarse kind of paper. 



LVIII. CUPULIFERiE. 



QUERCUS RACEMOSA. (W.J.) 



Foliis lato-lanceolatis integerrimis glaberrimis, spicis mas- 

 culis paniculatis, fructibus spicatis, nuce umbihcato-depressa, 

 calice fructus tuberculato. 



Punning-punning bunkus, Malay. 



Native of Sumatra. 



A large tree, with brownish bark. Branches smooth. 

 Leaves alternate, short petioled, ovate-lanceolate^ acuminate, 

 attenuated to the petiole, very entire, very smooth, nerves 

 well marked and reddish beneath ; 6 — 8 inches long. 

 Stipules small, linear. Male spikes numerous, panicled, ter- 

 minal and from the axils of the upper leaves which are 

 crowded round the thickened extremity of the branch, slen- 

 der, hoary ; flowers sessile, aggregated. Female spikes 

 at first terminal, becoming afterwards lateral by the shooting 

 up of the branch ; flowers numerous, dense, sessile. MALE. 

 Calyx 6 -parted, segments acute. Stamina 15 — 20. The 



