1940
ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.
PART III.
the edge. This is a very splendid species, from the great size of its racemes and acorns. PunningPunning is the generic appellation of the oak in Malay: in the Rajang dialect it is calledPasaug.
Q. gemellifibra Blume FI. Jav., t. 17.; and our fig. 1847. The twin-flowered Oak. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sharp at both ends, remotely serrated, glabrous; glaucous beneath. Female pedunclesgenerally 2-flowered. A middle-sized tree, a native of the lofty mountains of Salak and Kandang.The wood is very compact, and excellent for building purposes. {Blume.)
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Q. induta Blume FI. Jav., t. 12. ; and our fig. 1848. The cloth-clipped Oak. Leaves oval-oblong,acuminate; acute at the base ; glabrous; downy beneath. Cups tubercled, without teeth. Nuts de-pressed and hemispherical. A handsome tree, 100 ft. high, found on Mount Gede. {Blume.)
Q. urceolaris W. Jack. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag., i. p. 256. Leaves elliptic-oblong, long and slenderat the point, quite entire, glabrous. Fruit spiked. Cup somewhat hemispherical, with a spreadinglimb. A tree, with rough bark, a native of Sumatra. Leaves alternate, petiolate, terminated by along slender acumen; coriaceous, pale beneath; 8 in. to 9 in. long. Fruit.on lateral racemes. Acornsrounded and flattened at top; umbilicate in the centre, and mucronate with the three persistentstyles 5 rather perpendicular at the sides, half-embraced by the calyx, which is cup-shaped, markedon the outer surface with small acute scaly points, concentrically arranged, and whose margin expandsinto a spreading, nearly entire, waved limb. The ovary is three-celled, each cell containing twoovula, and is lodged in the bottom of the large funnel-shaped calyx. The acorn contains a singleexalbuminous seed, placed a little obliquely. The spreading limb of the cups forms a good distinctivecharacter, and renders this a very remarkable and curious species.
Q. Pseiido-tnoliicca Blume FI. Jav., t. 6 .; andour fig. 1849. The false Molucca Oak. Leaves 1840
elliptic-oblong, acuminate; acute at the base ;glabrous ; shining above, glaucous beneath. Cat-kins almost terminal. Cups not much hollowed,covered with small scales. Nuts hemispherical.
A very branchy tree, found in the forests of thewest of Java. (Blume.)
Q. 7nolucca Lin. Sp. PI., 1412., Willd., No. 11.,
Humph. Amb., 3. p. 85., N. Du Ham, 7. p. 153.,
Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 31. The Molucca Oak.
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, entire, acute at eachend, smooth. Nut roundish, furrowed. (Smith.) fil“ Native of the Molucca Isles. A large and lofty |j|tree, the wood of which is hard and heavy; 1lasting long under water. Leaves 6 in. or 8 in. long,and 3 in. broad, on short stalks, with 8 or 10 irre-gular lateral veins. Acorns short and roundish, 1furrowed in their upper part; the cup short,warty. By Rumphius’s account, there seem tobe more species than one comprehended underthe chapter above cited ; but he does not giveus sufficient marks to define them specifically.”
(Smith in Rees's Cycl.)
Q. turbinata Blume FI. Jav., t. 18.; andourjSg. 1850. Thetop-shaped-cu/^crf Oak. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sharp at both ends, sharply serrated towards the apex, glabrous. Cups top-shaped. A