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coryla'ce#:. que'rcus.

1939

cate, depressed. Cup tuberculated. A large tree, with brownish bark ; a native of Sumatra .Branches smooth. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, acuminate, attenuated to the petiole; nerveswell marked, and reddish beneath, 6 in. to 8. in. long. Stipules small, linear.- Male spikes numerouspanicled, terminal; and, from the axils of the upper leaves, which are crowded round the thickenedextremity of the branch, slender, hoary; flowers sessile, aggregated. Female spikes at first termi-nal, becoming afterwards lateral by the shooting up of the branch : flowers numerous, dense, sessile.Males: calyx 6-parted, segments acute; stamens 15—20. The centre of the flower is occupied bya densely villous disk. Female: calyx rugose, turbinate, umbilicate; ovary 3-5 celled; each cell con-

shnrfh* ^ ovula, attached by a thread to its summit Acorns large, depressed, umbilicate, with awith mucr ,°* p u P flat > embracing the nut for about half its height; nearly 1 in. in diameter; rough,in angular imbricated tubercles, which are large towards the base, and become small towards

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