43. QUERCUS CUETISII, King; Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 612.
Glabrous, except the inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovatelanceolate,
acuminate; the base acute; the edges slightly recui-ved {when dry); both
surfaces glabrous: the upper shining, the lower pale, dull, and sometimes glaucescent;
nerves about 10 pairs, distant, bold (as is the midrib) below, obsolete above; length of
blade 6 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 2-0 in. ; petiole -3 to -5 in., stout. Spikes rather numerous,
in few-bunched terminal panicles or 1 — 2 in the axils of the leaves, a few beariu"
female flowers. Male jloweis in rather sparse glomeruli, or solitary; the perianth with
5 or 6 blunt lobes; stamens 12, globular. Female Jlowars solitary; ripe acorns crowded,
touching, but not connate. Cupule sessile, woody, discoid, wavy, about -7 in. in diameter;
pubescent externally and minutely sub-tubercuiar, the bodies of the scales being closely
connate, imbricate, only their rather thick apices being free. Glans turbinate when young,
cylindiic when old, with a conical apes crowned by the remains of the united styles,
pubescent; -o in. to "7 in. in diameter and "8 in. high (to the very apex).
Penang, near the -waterfall,—Xw^r; Perak,—^»n/a Collector (No. 830i).
A tree 20 to 25 feet in height; apparently not common, as it does not occur in
Scortechini's Perak collection at all, and once only in each of the other collections
mentioned above.
PLATE Quercus Curtmi, King. 1, branch with spikes bearing male and female
flowers; 2 spikes with young acorns; 3, with young acorns; 4, young cupule seen from
below; 7, mature fruit,—a« of natwal size; 6, male flowers: enlarged.
44. QUERCUS PRUINOSA, Bl. in Balav. Verk. is. 217.
The whole of the young parts covered with rufous, stellate, furfuraceous tomentum,
part of which is more or less quickly deciduous. Leaves coriaceous, ovato to ovateoblong,
acute or acuminate, entire; the base broad and rounded; adult leaves more or
less glabrous on the upper, and scurfy-pubescent on the lower surface, except the midrib
and 10 to 12 pairs of main nerves, which remain fulvous-tomentose; length of blade
4 to 6 in., breadth 1-65 to 2-5 in.; petiole under -o in.; stipules rather prominent in
the young shoots, ovate-lanceolate, velvetty; nearly -5 in. long, caducous, Spikes fulvoustomentose,
solitary or in small fascicles, terminal or axillary, shorter than the leaves.
Male flowers in fascicles of 3, bracteolate; the perianth 6-cleft; the lobes broad, suberect;
anthers 10 to 12. Eipe fruit solitary, rarely in pairs; the cupule woody, saucershaped,
1 in. to 1-25 in. broad and '25 in. deep, embracing only the base of tiie glans;
its scales broadly ovate with thick blunt apices, pubescent, closely adprcssed and connate.
Glans much depressed, globose; the apex umbonate, and crowned by the united bases
of the styles, smooth when •n^^.— 'Bijdr. 521; Fl. Jav. Cupul. 9. 1 ; Mns. Bot. i.
292; Miq. PI. Jungh. i. 10; Fl. Ind. Bat. i, 850, in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 107;
DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 87; Oudem. Annot. Cup. Jav. 11.—Q. psetido Molucca, Bl. var. pruinosa,
Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 227.
Java,—Blame, Zollinger.
Excppt Zollinger, nobody since Blume's time appears to have collected the exact
plant which the latter described under this name {pruinosa), and I have seen spociraons
of it nowhere except in the collections at Leiden and Calcutta, and in that of M. Do
Candolle at Geneva (in which there is a specimen received from Leiden). It is a
PASA^ILA.
very distinct looking species, and it can only be from not having seen specimens of
xt that so many botanists have confused it with Q. pseudo.Molucca, Q. Korihahii &c
1 he young cupules in this, as in most Pasanias, have their scales distinct while young'
Forbes' specimens from Western Java (Nos. 807 and 940) may belong to Q. pruino^
' flower-spikes, but are without
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Q.j^ruinosa, Bl. 1, branch with young male spikes; 2, spike of
young frmt; 3, haf.npe fruit; 4. nearly mature cupule; 5, nearly ma'ture' glans 6
ripe f r u i t , o f natural stze. M. 6 eopM from Blume^s figure. «'
45. QUERCUS PALLIDA, Bl. Bijdr. 524.
.owe. .rface .c o n . a . , ? . S ^ T U i : !
pubosenoe; the rest of the lower surface uniformly covered with minute p a k ^
ceuce; upper surface glabrous; length of blade 4 to 6 iu., breadth 1-6 in to f i n
petjole about -5 in. long. Inflorescenc. terminal, tawny, pubescent; the spikLs p a l ed'
at least one of them bearing female Sowers; bracteoles of male kowers single L ar
echinate e.terna„, the bafes'of Z^ ^ ^ T j ^ ^
s u m i ; : t j r " " r - - - -
. ..e fruit;, t^rxr:^:/ --