IIS CYCLOBALIKUS.
{OÒS. Phyt. iii. 9i) the true fruit of Q. Baneana as I have here described and figured it.
ITufortunately, however, some specimens of the present pkot (Q. llojah) were issued
b y Dr. Scheffor under the name Q. Baneana. I have seen ripe acorns of Q. liajah
nowhere exccpt in the herbarium of the late Dr. Hance (now in the British Museum).
PLATE 61B. Rajah, Hance. 5, twig with young acorns; 6, unusually bi'oad leaf;
7, ripe glans; 8, cupule ; 9, young acorns,—fl/i of natural size.
59. QUERCUS EwYCKir, Korth. in Yo-h. Kai. Gcsch. Bot. 213. t. 46.
Young shoots, under surfaces of the leaves, and the inflorescence minutely sublepidote
puberubus. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate (ovateelliptic
in var. latifolia), acute or acuminate; npper surface of adult leaves shining and
glabrous except the midrib and 11 to 14 pairs of nerves which are minutely pubescent;
under surface silvery grey, adpressed-pubescent; nerves prominent (and sometimes
slightly coloured) ; length of blade 5 to 7 in., breadth 1-75 to 2'20 in.; petioles -3 in.
to -5 in. Flower-spikes from 4 to 6 in. long, mostly males, foruiing few-branched, rather
contracted, terminal panicles. Male fiowers sub-glomerulate or solitary; the perianth
6-lobed; stamens 12; rudimentary ovary globular, villose. Female spilces one or two at
t h e base of the male panicle. Jiipe cupules solitary, sessile, or on very short, thick,
annulate pedicels, saucer-shaped, embracing only the lower third of the glans, minutely
tomentose ; -6 in. to 1 in. in diameter and -15 in. to -2 in. deep; lamellce about 7 or
8, narrow but distinct, entire or finely denticulate. Glans depressed, hemispheric or ovoidconic,
apiculate, the base truncate; smooth and shining when adult. "6 to -8 in. long
and -5 to -9 in. in d i a m e t e r . i n Mus. Luad. Bat. i, 300; BG. Prod. xvi. ii. 94;
Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 230; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 614.
S u m a t r a , — ^ o r i i a i s ; P e r a k ,—C o l l e c t o r (7846).
A considerable tree. The Perak specimens have slightly smaller acorns than those
f r om Sumatra, but otherwise the plants are the same. In Dr. Hance's herbarium (now
i a the British Museum) a specimen collected by Mr. Curtis in Penang (No. 360) is named
Q. Ewyckii. That plant has cupules with bold sausage-shaped lamellfE. It is identical
with Maingay's Malacca specimen No. 1527, and is the species which I have named
Q. Wenzigiana. True Q. Ewyckii is not well represented in any collection which I have
consulted, except those at Leiden and Calcutta. In the former there is a good deal of
i t under a manuscript name of Korthals which I cannot decipher. This species much
resembles Q. Lamponga, Miq., in leaf; but this has distinctly zonate cupules. On the
other hand, there are forms of Q. Lamponga in which the cupular scales are arranged in
vert.icels and their bodies are almost completely united, only the very tips being free.
Such f(ji-ms come so near Cijclohalaaus as to be hardly distinguishable.
VAR. LATIFOLIA.
Leaves ovate-elliptic, shortly and bluntly caudate-acuminate; lamellaj of cupule
denticulate; glans ovoid-conic.
P e r a k , — C o l l e c t o r , No. 8532.
This variety is evidently not common: it does not occur in Scortechiui's colloction.
I n fruit this approaches Q. daphnoidea.
PLATE 62A.—Q. Ewjckii, Korth. 1, leaf-twig; 2, spike of ripe fruit {from a Perak
specimen)-, of natural size. B.—Far. Mifolia. 3, leaf-twig; 4, spike of nearly ripe fruit;
5, ripe glans; 6, cupule,—all of natural size.
CYCLOBALANÏÏS.
60. QUEKCUS CLEMENTIANA, King in Rook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. V. G14.
Young shoots glabrous, sub-glaucous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanccolate or
oblanceolate, acuminate, entire; the base acute; both surfaces gkbrous; the upper
shining, the lower paler and dull; nerves 11 to 13 pairs, rather prominent below; length
of blade 5 to 7-o in., breadth 2 to 2'25 in.; petiole '35 in. Spikes male or androgynous,
axillary and solitary, or in saiall terminal panicles, shorter than the leaves. Male flowers
sessile, 6-cleft; stamens 12; rudimentary ovary very large, pubescent. Young cupules
sessile, solitary or in threes, truncate-pyriform, with 4 broad distinct sub-eutire zones.
Bipe cupules solitary or with one or two abortive cupules at their bases, saucer-shaped
or sub-campanulate, covering only the lower half of the glans; lamellae 5, broad, with
entire but wavj- edges; 1'25 iu. in diameter and '5 in. deep.
Penang,—Maincjag [No. 1529) ; Scorlecliini [without locality or nmnler).
•The materials on which tliis species is founded are not so complete as might be
desired. The ponit in which they more especially fail is that no leaf-specimen has ripe
f r u i t actually attached to it. The young acorns which are attached agree, however, so
well with the ripo detached ones picked up from under trees by Maingay, that there is
practically no doubt of the identity of the two. The species resembles Q. Wenzigiana,
K i n g ; but this has larger leaves, shorter spikes, and a different cupule. The ripe fruit
of this also much resembles that of Q. luoida, Roxb. A plant very near, if not identical
with, tbis was collected by Motley ia Borneo {Uerl. Motley 464 and ]168). I have
named tbis species afcer Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlements.
PLATE 63A.—Q. Clementiana, King. 1, branch with male inflorescence; 2, spike of
young acorns; 3, cluster of half-ripe acorns; 4, ripe acorn; 5, ripe cujjule,—all of natural
size; 6, male flowers:
61. QUERCUS LUCIDA, Boxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 635.
All parts, except the inflorescence, quite glabrous. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, obtusely
lanceolate, oblanceolate or cuneate, shortly and obtusely mucronate or rounded, and
sometimes slightly emargiuate; the base acuminate; both surfaces glabrous and shining;
nerves 8 to 10 paii-s, not prominent on either surface; length of bliide 5 to 7 in., breadth
1-75 to 2-2o in.; petiole about -3 in., stout. Spikes androgynous, puberulous, in terminal
panicles exceeding the leaves. Male floioers with 6-cleft perianth, 12 stamens and
pubesccnt rudimentary ovary. Ripe cupules solitary by abortion, sessile, thick, saucershapcd
witii in-cm-vcd edges, embracing only the base of the glans; lamell® 6 or 7,
bold, sausage-shaped, tomentellate, 1 in. in diameter and -2 in. deep. Glans hemispheric
with a truncate base aud umbonate apex, smooth, shining, -9 in. in diameter and -65
in. high.-S>o/i:. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 6U.—Q. cvneata, Herb. Roxb. in Wall. Cat. 3732;
DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 108 (name only); Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. 863; Ann. Mus. Lucd
Bat. i. 116.
Penang,—il/ar^^ro^-, 1526, King; Singapore and P e r a k , - C o l l e c t o r ; at low elevations.
(King's Collector No. 5584, issued by mistake under this name, is Wemigiania, King.)
A tree, from 40 to 100 feet high. Roxburgh's descriptions and, still more, his
excellent coloured figure in the Calcutta Herbarium, put the identification of thij species
bevoud the reach of doubt. Although this is one of tlie commonest oaks in " "
AKN. HOY. BOT, GARD. CALCDTTA, VOL. II.