Pasania.] 
CXXXIII. CUPULIFERAi. 
385 
nervules conspicuous, numerous; 5 to 7 in. long, 3 to 4 in wide. 
Fruits immature in stout spikes 3 in. long; cups three together or 
more, some solitary, covering three-quarters of the acorn, rings 
five; acorn white silky; umbo conic. Hab. Very little known. 
Perak, Gunong Batu Putih and Ulu Batang Padang (Wray). 
Use: Saplings used for torches when fishing by Sakais. 
§ iii. Chlamsdobalanus 
(27) P. Blumeana Gamble, l.c . 445. Quercus Blumeana Korth. 
Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 208, t. 44; King, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ii. 
75, t. 69B. 
Tree 40 to 50 ft. tall, 2-5 to 3 ft. through. Leaves coriaceous 
elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or cuspidate, base 
acute minutely grey tomentose beneath; 7 to 8-5 in. long, 175 to 
3 in. wide; nerves sunk above, raised beneath, 12 to 14 pairs, 
transverse nervules conspicuous; petioles -4 in. long, stout. Spikes 
male, or both male and female, slender axillary and in terminal 
panicles, grey-tomentose. Flowers very small, males in threes or 
fours; females solitary. Fruit single in dense spikes about 4 in. 
long. Cup short peduncled, thin covering nearly the whole acorn, 
with faint rings and splitting in vertical fissures. Acorn depressed 
turbinate, 75 in. long and about as wide, densely silky-tomentose; 
umbo conic. Hab. Rare in woods at 3500 to 4000 ft. altitude. 
Perak, Larut Hills (Kunstler). Distrib. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
(28) P. confragosa Gamble , l.c. 446. Quercus confragosa 
King in Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 616; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ii. 77, t. 71. 
Big tree 40 to 50 ft. tall, 10 to 15 in. through. Leaves grey, 
v$ry coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, bluntly cuspidate 
acuminate, base acute, dark green above, greyish beneath; midrib 
stout elevate both sides, nerves 6 to 8 pairs obscure above, elevate 
beneath, transverse nervules faint; 5 to 6 in. long, 2-25 to 3 in. 
wide; petioles '4 in. long. Flowers unknown. Fruit sessile, 
single or in rather slender spikes up to 7*8 in. long. Cup globose 
entirely covering the acorn except the umbo, rugose with irregular 
blunt tubercles, bluish-grey when alive, dark brown when dry, 
1*5 in. long, 1*25 in. wide. Acorn globose, minutely velvety, umbo 
prominent; when young the cup only covers one-half or two-thirds 
of the fruit and is roughly reticulate. Hab. Rare, Perak, Goping 
(Kunstler). 
(29) P. Wrayii Gamble, l.c. 446. Quercus Wrayii, King, 
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ii. 77, t. 104. 
Tree; branchlets fulvous-tomentose. Leaves sub-coriaceous 
oblong-lanceolate, long caudate-acuminate, base blunt and often 
unequal, hairy on midrib and nerves especially beneath; nerves 
12 to 16 pairs elevate beneath; 4 to 6*15 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. wide; 
petioles -i in. long, tomentose. Flowers not known. Fruit spike 
3 to 3*5 in. long, tomentose. Cup sessile solitary, depressed, sub- 
Fl.M.P., 3. CC 
