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centre of the flower is occupied by a densely villous disk. 

 FEMALE, Calyx rugose, turbinate, umbilicate. Ovary 

 3 — 5 celled, each cell containing two ovula attached by 

 a thread to its summit. Acorns large, depressed, umbili- 

 cate with a short mucro. Cup flat, embracing the nut for 

 about half its height, nearly an inch in diameter, rough 

 with angular imbricated tubercles which are large towards 

 the base and become small towards the edge. 



Obs, — This is a very splendid species from the great size 

 of the racemes and acorns. Punning-punning is the generic 

 appellation of the Oaks in Malay; in the Rejang dialect 

 they are called Pasang. 



QUERCUS URCEOLARIS. fW. J.J 



Foliis elliptico-oblongis acumine gracili integerrimis gla- 

 berrimis, fructibus spicatis, calyce fructus sub-hemisphaerico 

 limbo patente. 



Native of Sumatra. 



A tree, with rough bark. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 elliptic-oblong, terminated by a long slender acumen, very 

 entire, smooth, coriaceous, pale beneath ; 8 — 9 inches long. 

 Fruit on lateral racemes. Acorns rounded and flattened 

 at top, umbilicate 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 concentri- 

 cally arranged, and whose margin expands into a spreading, 

 nearly entire, waved limb. The Ovary is 3-celled, each 

 cell containing two ovula, and is lodged in the bottom of the 

 large funnel-shaped calyx. The acorn contains a single 

 exalbuminous seed placed a little obliquely. 



06*.— The spreading limb of the cups forms a good 

 distinctive character, and renders this a very remarkable and 

 curious species. 



