386 cxxxm. cupuliferaj. [ Pasania. 
globose entirely covering the acorn and covered with stout incurved 
rather soft spines, hooked at tip, softly tomentose. Acorn depressed 
silky. Hab. Little known, only unripe fruits seen. Pahang, 
Telom (Ridley). Perak, Kota (Wray). 
(30) P. discocarpa Gamble, l.c. 447. Quercus discocarpa Hance, 
Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 242; King, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ii. 76, t. 70. 
Tree 100 to 130 ft. tall, 4 ft. through. Leaves coriaceous 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate, dark green above, 
cinnamon brown beneath; nerves 8 to 10 pairs slender, sunk above, 
elevate beneath; 4-5 to 6 in. long, 1-5 to 1*75 in. wide; petioles 
•15 in. long. Spikes 3-5 in. long in large panicles, tomentose. 
Male flowers clustered, 2 to 4; female solitary. Fruit solitary, 
pedicel short or 0, hemispheric or turbinate, conic tawny pubescent, 
•6 in. long, *8 in. wide, the cupule entirely covering the acorn except 
the umbo and covered wdth tufts or lines of simple or branched 
sharp spines as much as *3 in. long. Acorn pubescent, base very 
concave; umbo conic. Hab. Mountain forests. Perak, Gunong 
Bubu (Scortechini); Larut to 1000 ft. altitude (Kunstler). Distrib. 
Bangka, Borneo. 
(31) P. acuminatissima Oerst. Kjoeb, Vidensk, Meddel, 84; 
Gamble, l.c. 448; King, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ii. 78, t. 73. 
Tree 60 ft. or more tall; branchlets black. Leaves coriaceous 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, acute, reddish 
brown beneath entire (or coarsely serrate at the top); midrib 
slender, nerves fine, 8 to 11 pairs slightly elevate beneath, faint 
above transverse nervules and areolations visible above and 
beneath; 3 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles slender, *2 in. long. 
Spikes axillary erect, 3 in. long. Males filiform; females stouter; 
flowers all solitary and distant. Fruit spikes about 3 in. long; 
fruit obliquely ovoid; cupule pubescent tomentose covered with 
thick soft spines entirely covering the acorn; acorn ovoid apiculate 
flattened on one side; umbo round. Hab. Rare, Perak, Gunong 
Bubu (Scortechini). Distrib. Java, in mountains. 
A sketch in Bonplandia, vi. 82, shows a tree with a large mass of descend¬ 
ing roots big enough to form a hut, and many suckers growing from them. 
I have only seen young fruits of this species. 
(32) P. encleisacarpa Gamble, l.c. 449. Quercus encleisa- 
carpa Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 208, t. 45; King, Ann. Bot. 
Gard. Calc. ii. 80, t. 75. 
Tree 40 to 60 ft. tall or more. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic 
abruptly caudate-acuminate, base acute, dark green above, beneath 
silver grey, 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. wide; nerves conspicuous 
beneath, 7 to 9 pairs. Spikes slender, grey-pubescent, up to 7 in. 
long. Males panicled; females solitary axillary. Male flowers 
in elongate clusters ; females solitary or 3 to 4 together. Fruit 
depressed globose on short thick peduncles on stout spikes 7 in. 
long; cup covering the acorn except at the top, dark brown, thin 
with 6 or 7 conspicuous slender rings, *8 in. tall, -8 in. through. 
