74 CYCL01jALA^•FS.
Roxburgh's turbinata, and it was issued by Hook, til. and TLomson in their llcrb. Ind.
Or. under the MSS, name leiicoourpa.
PLATE 69A.—Q. Th-msoni, Miq. 1, branch with inflorescence, bearing androgynous
spikes; 2, spike of depressed-globular fruit; 3, a single py ri forra-globose fruit,—f/««¿wra/
size ; 4, male flower; Ó, section of female flower: both enlarged.
S E C T I O N V.-CHAMYDOBALANUS.
CtiamydobalarLUS.—'S'/J'LES erect; male flowers, styles, and leaves as in PASANIA.
Imolucres ovoid or globose, externally zonate or tuhercular, closed and
enveloping the whole glans {rxeept the apex in CONFRAGOSA and BLUMEANA),
hut not adnate to it, except at the hase; the glans escaping from the
eupule when ripe.
Involucres tubei'cled or spinulose.
Fruit hemispheric or turbinate.
Involucres depressed-globose, the young echinulate with simple weak
aidstco; the mature with faint hands 68. Q. Blumemui.
iQvoliiores with sharp, subulate, simple or branching spines in tufts or
interrupited zones 69. Q. dimcavpa.
Involucres with stout, simple, radiating, hooked spines 69 bis. Q. TFrai/ii.
Fruit globulai-; iuvolucre with coarse, short, blunt, irregular, scattered
tubercles 70. Q. con/rafjosa.
Fruit ovoid; iuvolucre with scattered sub-ligneous, reilesed, subulate
tuberdes 71. Q. reflfxa.
Fruit ovoid-complauate, oblique; involucral tubercles short, stout, sometimes
sub-zouate 72. Q. Janyhuhnii.
Involucres zonate, not tuberculate.
Fruit ovoid or ovoid-globose 73. Q. la»cewfolia.
74, Q. eiicleis-icarpa.
G8. QUEKCUS BLTTMEANA. KorlL Verh. JS^at. Gesck. Bot. 208. t. 44.
Young shoots pale, pulverulent. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or narrowly ellipticlanceolate,
shortly acuminate, entire; the base acute; upper surface glabrous; lower
pale, very minutely stellate-tomentose; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, rather sti-aight,
strong and prominent beneath; length of blade 5 to 8 in., breadth 1-50 to 2'7o
i n . ; petiole -5 to •7o in,, stout. Spikes erect, simple, axillary, or in terminal panicles,
male or andi'ogynous; male perianth 6-cleft; stamens 12; rudimentary pistil spheroid,