Quercus comasaguana Trel. n. sp.
Twigs moderate (2-3 mm.), fluted, vary quickly glabrous, gray
with prominent white lenticels. Buds apparently glabrous,
glossy brown, and round-ovoid. Leaves persisting till the new growth is formed,
elliptical-oblong, subacute, cordulate,
coarsely crenate-serrate above the middle, slightly revolute, rather large (2.5-3
x 6-9, or 6 x 16 cm.) glossy, glabrous and
somewhat inpressed-reticulate above, dull, pale and rather persistently cobwebby
beneath; veins about 15 pairs, forked
and somewhat looped; petiole glabrate, about 2 x 6 mm. Catkins and fiuit ?
Central American region.