leviter striati, basi articulatim incrassati, fusco-rufescentes, papulis numerosis
parumper elevatis sordide flavicantibus obsessi.
F olia 4-7-pollicaria, 11-3 poll, lata (arborum juyenilium majora), breviter
petiolata, alterna, sat approximata, patentia, versus apicem recurvata, hincque
ob latera sub-con duplicata velut cymbiformia, superne ob tuse acuminata, basi
obtusata vel interdum perexigue attenuata, integerrima aut leyissime repanda,
coriacea, rigida, glaberrima, concoloria, nitida, supra inter venas laterales
arcuatas baud raro convexiuscula, subtus costâ. venisque reticulatione tenellâ
anastomosantibus longe elevatioribus. Petioli brevissimi, circa 3-4 lin. longi,
crassiusculi, teretiusculi, basi nodoso-incrassati, ad insertionem utrinque cicatrice
minuta stipulæ delapsæ ornati.
Amenta terminalia, flabellatim conjuncta vel axillis superioribus solitaria,
partim stricta, partim arcuato-patentia, gracilia, racbi inferne nudâ, totâ tomen-
tosâ, incanâ; mascula multo numerosiora, magis peripherica, compacta, infra
medium plerumque in ramulos complures breves longitudine inæquales partita;
feminea simplicissima, interrupta, ad apicem glomerulis masculinis copiosis
approximatis, paucioribus vero ad basin instructa, rachi sat rigida, sursum
attenuata.
Flores masculi : Perianthium sub-urceolatum, extrinsecus cano-tomentosum,
sexfidum, laciniis semiovatis obtusis. Stamina 7-10, in perianthii fundo inserta.
Filamenta longe exserta, subulata, glabra, longitudine sub-inæqualia. Antheroe
parvæ, sub-rotundæ, didymæ, fere horizontaliter incumbentes. Corpus ovale,
sursum densissime villosum, in centro perianthii.
F lores feminei singuli ad basin calyculati squamulis plurnms, minutis, tomen-
tosis, arcte conferruminatis. Perianthium superum, abbreviatum, utrobique
tomentosum, ex foliolis circa sex rotundatis, inferne coahtis. Filamenta ahquot
brévia antheris effoetis. Stylus brevissimus, crassus, pariter ac stigmata tria brévia
cylindrica erecta infra, sub-villosus.
F ructus in rachi valde incrassatâ, glabriusculâ et verruculosâ sessiles, in for-
mam spicæ ovalis aut sub-globosæ congregati, multis minoribus abortivis com-
misti vel connati. Cupuloe principio sub-globosæ, squamulis parvis semiovatis
dorso gibbis tuberculatæ; maturæ fere acetabuliformes, in crateriformes ver-
gentes, vix trientem glandis involventes , squamuhs penitus coahtis extus.
quasi tuberculato-tessellatæ, intus depressione circulari plano-convexâ. Glandes
hemisphæricæ, supra umbone parvo obtuso adornatæ, subtus derasæ, disco in
centro exigue concavo, ad peripheriam foveolato.
EXPLICATIO TABULÆ.
Ramulus Queucus glaberrimæ; magn. nat.
Fig. J. Fructus maturi, et folium speciminis adhuc juvenilis ; magn. nat.