488 DH. H. F. IIAKCE ON THE 



young, dotted with short white hairs : the full-grown ones have 

 also usually a few long weak hairs along the costa and primary 

 veins ; but these arc scarcely to be noticed without a lens, I 

 believe my Q, Fahri to be the nearest ally of this species, though 

 abundantly distinct. 



The specimens of No. 2 belong to Q. dentata^ Thunbg. M. De 

 CandoUe* hesitates to acknowledge the identity of Bunge's Q. 

 obovata, asserted independently by Miquelf and myself J, since 

 the former author makes no mention of the fruit ; the precise 

 agreement, however, of the cups and acorns in a Japanese speci- 

 men from Mr. J. G. Veitch with those of the Chinese plants 

 enables me to affirm positively that they are conspecific. With 

 regard to M. De Candolle's remarks on the floral structure, I 

 find in the only specimen in blossom in my possession (a Yoku- 

 hama one, from the herbarium of the Petersburg Botanic Garden) 

 that the male amenta are naked at the base, then interruptedly 

 lax and gradually dense-flowered towards the apex, the flowers 

 quite destitute of bracts, and the large anthers borne on filaments 

 about as long as themselves. In this species, as in Q, Championij 

 Bth.§, the stellate hairs on the underside of the leaves spring 

 from a yellow glandular base. The cup has the lower scales ap- 

 pressed, thickened, ovate, and acute ; they become gradually longer 

 and more squarrose, the upper and inner ones being very nume- 

 rous, 9 to 10 lines long, subulate, at first erect, and then more or 

 less, often strongly reflexed, like the involucral squamae of a Tea- 

 sel, surmounting the acorn somewhat, which, however, is twice as 

 long as the cup proper ; all are flat, canescently sericeous outside, 

 of a deep bright brown inside, thinner and paler towards the 

 margins, like the palese of many Polystichoid Aspidia, scarious 

 and stiffish in texture, like the involucral bracts of a Helichrysum. 

 The cupule is tomentose inside, 4-5 lines across, and of equal 

 depth, with the margin erose, to which the deeper-coloured free 

 scales form an external fringe, rising straight up for a height of 



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4-6 lines. The glans is perfectly glabrous, of a testaceous or aluta- 

 ceous brown (nearest to the ochre-yellow, No, 73, of Syme's edi- 

 tion of Werner's nomenclature of colours), ovoid (not subglo- 

 bose as described by BungeH), with an almost flat concolorous 



* Op. dt. p. 13. 



t Ann. Mus. Lngd.-Bat. i. 105. 



t Ann. Sc. nat. 4« ser, v. 243. 



§ Seemann, Bot. Toy. Herald, t. 90; Hance, in Seem. Journ. Bot. i. 180. 



IJ Enum. PI. Chin. BoV.' p. 62. 



