PLATK 82.— Q. Listen, King. 1, leaf and male inflorescence from Griffith's No. 4464;
2, femali; flower-spike and leaf from Brandis's specimen,—of natural size.
QUERCUS LITTOKALIS, Bl. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 303; Miq. FL Lid. Bat. i. 1. 864; Ann.
Mas. Lugd. Bat. i. 118; Z)(7. Frod. svi. ii. 106.
This species is represented in the Leiden Herbarium by a single leaf-twig. Miquel
(I.e.) suggests that it may be a form of spicata, Sni.
QuEiiCCs MiXT.^, DC. Prod. svi. ii. 8-3; sp. dub. in Hook, fit FL Lid. v. 619.
Mixed with "Wallich's specimens of Q. Amherstiana, and beai-ing the same number
(2783), are frairments of at ioast one, if uot of two, other species. These fragments
consist of (a) leafy specimens leaving androgynous spikes. These (in Herb. Calc.) are in my
opinion ¡¡yicaia, Sm., or something very neai- it; (5) male qnkes, qiiite separate from any
tivig. I do not know what these are, but they are not the same as the spikes of (a); (c)
fndting peduneles truncate at the apex {as if the part hearing the male flowers had loithered o f f )
and scooped out at ike insertions of the cupides ; the cupules small (-25 in. high and from -35 in.
to -0 in. across'^, open, connate hy their bases into fascicles; their scales ovate-acute, sub-connale.
Along with these cupules there is a note in "Wallich's handwriting—" an 2789 Taong
Domig?" Now, Wallich's No. 2789 is Q. polystachya, Wall., a tree still found growing in
Bui-mah and Penang.
I fear, however, tbat the mixture in Wallich's distribution of his No. 2783 has been
by no means a -uniform one, and that, in different sets of his plants, diiferent species
have been mixed. M. De Candolle has accepted the fragments which I have here
called (a) and (f) as belonging to one plant, and a description of these forms the basis
of his species mixta.
Since writing the foregoing, I have examined some collections recently made by the
Collector of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the Chittagong Hill Tracts; and in them I
find numerous specimens of a Querciis answering fairly with M. De Candolle's description
<if mixta, and agreeing with that part of Wallich's material which I have designated («V
These specimens form, in my opinion, a variety of Q. spicata, and I have named it var.
QUEKCUS MOLUCCA, Rumph. IloH. Amb. in. 85 {partly) t. 56.
Rumph'a rude figure and description having been associated with some loose leaves
and young fruit of a Quercus in the Leiden Herbarium (received from the Moluccas and
Celebes), this species was published in Willdenow's edition of Linnasus' Spec. FL iv. 1.
427, and was kept up by Sprengel [Sgst. iii. 857), and Blume [Mus. Bot. i. 291), anil also
by Smith {Rees^ Encycl. v. 29. No. 11).
Blume, however, omitted it from his Bijdragcn and Fl. Javw. Cupulif. M. De Candolle
admits it in the Frodromus xvi. ii. 86, but mentions that his material consists of a single
leaf and a young fruit (from Celebes) sent to him by Blume. The type specimen of
the species in the Leiden collection is of the same meagre sort, and I have seen nothing
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bearing the name in any other collection. Miquel keeps up the species in his Fl. Ind.
Bat. i. 849. I think it probable tiiat the species has been described from fuller material
under some other name.
QUEECUS NITIDA, Bl. Mus. Lugd. Bot. i. 294; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 857; DC. Prod.
xvi. ii. 95.
Of this species Blume never saw ripe fruit. His description of the cupules refers
to a few very young ones on the scanty materials (3 shoots) at Leiden collected by
Korthals in Sumatra. Tlie leaves are glabrous, elliptic-oblong, shortly cuspidate, very
smooth and shining on the upper, and pale, glaucescent, minutely reticulate on the lower
surface. The cupulcs are hemispheric, passing below into very thick, scaly pedicels.
They have numerous, rather large, tubercular scales, and look more like those of a
Pasania than of Cyclobalanus, in which section M. De Candolle places the species.
Dr. Wenzig. in his paper on the Oaks of Eastern and Southern Asia in Jahrh. Bot.
Gart. Berl. iv. 235, gives a description of the mature fruit of this species, and, as an
example of it, he quotes H. 0. Forbes' Sumatra Herbarium No. 1683. But that specimen
of Forbes' does not agree with Blume's fragmentaiy type at Leiden; «nd if Dr. Wenzig's
descriptiun is founded on it he has, I fear, mixed up two quite distinct plants.
QUERCUS OLIGONEURA, luirth. in Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 203; Bl. in Mus. Bot. Lugd.
Bat.x. 294; Miq. Ft. Ind. Bat. i. 853; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 109;
DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 88.
A species collected by Korthals near Doekoe in Sumatra. This has large (6 to 9
in. long by 2 to 4 in. broad) oval or oval-oblong leaves, of a very pale colour, and with
few {6 or 7 pairs) of lateral nerves. The only fruits attributed to this species are quite
immature, and they are separate from the leaves. The leaves are undistinguishable from
those of Q. Eichleri, Wenzig, and I tliink it highly probable that Wenzig's plant is really
wiiut Korthals meant by Q. oUgoneura; but Kortlials did not describe the fruit, and his
species must be treated as doubtful.
QUERCUS OLLA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. for 1875, pt. 2. 197; spec. duh. in
Hook. fi>. Fl. Ind. v. 619.
Adult twigs with smooth, dark-coloured bark. Fndt spikes stout, 4 in. long.
Cupules distinct, with 1 or 2 abortive adnate to the base, sub-turbinate, 1 in. in diameter
and about -5 in. deep, very thick-walled, woody, minutely fulvous-tomentose, with
numerous rows of broad shortly and abruptly acuminate scales. Glans depressed-globose,
covered by the cupules except at the broad flat apex, smooth, shining.
Assam,—Jenkins.
The only specimen of this consists of a spike of ripe fruit collected in Assam many
years ago by the late Colonel Jenkins, Chief Commissioner of tliat province. There are
no leaves on this specimen, and no other has ever been received from Assam or any
part of India. The acorns are veiy peculiar and vorv handsome; and were tho tree
at all a common one, they could hardly have failed to attract the attention of the many
planters scattered over the province. Possibly, therefore, Colonel Jenkins mav have
collected his solitary specimen during some expedition beyond the British frontier!