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oppositi, axillares, sessiles, poUicares, superiores alterni; suffulti bracteolis 2-linearibus, calyce brevioribus. Calyx ventricoso-ovatus, 

 obsolete 4-angularis, angulis subdenticulato-scabriSj hispidus, dorso gibbosus, fauce parfim contracta, obliqua supra 2-dentatus, subtijs 

 fissus, demiunque irregulariter per totam ferfe longitudinem disrumpens, quasi 2-partitus ; fructus paull5 ampliatus. Corolla infundibuli- 

 formis, extiis pilosula, tubo parfim incurvo, calyce bis longiore, subtiis planiusculo ; Umbo patente, diviso in hbos 5 subrotundos, 

 subinsequales, crenulatos. .Stamina inclusa ; ^/a/ne«/a pilosa ; antherce pallidae, subsagittatoe, lobis inaequalibus, supernJi ad apicem 

 filamenti contiguis, deorsiim divaricatis, superiore calcarato. Ovarium rotundatum, laeve. Stylus filiformis, caducus. Stigma com-, 

 planatum, lanceolatum, acutum. Capsula ovata, fusca, laevis, magnitudine pisi, calyce obtectus, 2-locularis, 2-valvis, secus suturas 

 submarginulata ; valvule subseptiferae, apice 2-denticulatse ; placenta convexa, demiim libera, a vestigio septi angustissimi marginata. 

 Semina vald^ copiosa, locula omnin6 replentia, subulata, testa laxa, dilutissim^ ferruginea, reticulato-striat^ obtecta ; plurima abortiva. 



Mr. Brown, In his matchless work quoted above, alludes to the plant I have described, with a doubt as to its being 

 specifically different from that of New Holland. I should not have presumed to decide upon a point, respecting which 

 such a botanist hesitates, had I not by his kindness been indulged with the means of carefully comparing the speci- 

 mens in the Banksian Herbarium with those from the East Indies ; and had it not been found safer to consider them 

 as one and the same plant, than, by endeavouring to separate them, to form a precedent for establishing the various 

 changeable appearances of the Indian plant into so many separate species. 



It is a very common plant throughout Hindustan, dehghting in wet and rich situations, and producing its neat 

 blossoms during the rainy season. I have also found it on the banks of the Irawaddi. It varies exceedingly, according 

 to the soil and elevation of the place of its growth ; being sometimes scarcely a span high, with an undivided slender 

 stem, or producing branches from the very base ; but more frequently growing to an upright, rigid plant, from one 

 to two feet high, and harsh with short, stiff, and whitish hairs. The two following plants may perhaps be found to 

 constitute different species. 



C. himifusa, caule nano, ramoso, humifuso; foliis linearibus calycibusque parce pilosis. — Capraria humrfusa, 

 Hamllt. MSS. 



Hah. in Nathpur ; Herb. Hamilt. 



C. Brunoniana, molliuscule pilosula, erecta ; foliis lanceolatis, remote dentatis, obtusis ; calyce oblongo, acuminato. 



Hab. In Martabania prope Moalmyne. 



Plate XLV, Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx opened. 3. Corolla opened. 4. Stamens. 



QUERCUS SPICATA. Tab. 46. 



Foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, integerrlmis, attenuato-acuminatls, basi acutis, nunc obtusis, Igevibus ; amentis gracilibus, 

 erectis, axIUaribus, soliiariis, terminalibusque fasciculatis ; fructibus fasclculatis, longisslme spicatis, nucibus subglobosis, 

 apiculatis, laevibus, cupulas abbreviatas, lamellosas, villosas longe superantibus. 



Quercus spicata, Hamilt. apud Smith, in Cydoped. Reesiana, in loco. 



Quercus squamata, Roxb. Hart. Beng. p. 68. 



Habitat In montibus Sillet confinibus, ubi detexit M. R. Smith. Frequens In sylvls Napallee. In Kamaon, 

 Blinkworth. Floret mensibus Martio et Aprili ; fructus maturl Octobre. 



Nomen Newarrense : Dundwa Singali et Phaco Singhali ; Parbutteum : Arcaula ; Khasianum Burra Chulma. 



Arbor maxima, procera, ramosa et umbrosa, trunco vasto, induto cortice ramoso, nigricante. Hamuli cylindracei, glauci, puberuli. 

 Folia patentia, sparsa, approximata, elliptica, lanceolata, nunc subobovata, 6— 12-pollicaria, quin ultrtl, attenuato-acuminata, vel acuta, 

 integerrima, basi acuta, aliquand6 obtusa, nunc subretusa et quasi auriculata, lobis brevibus rotundatis ; Isevia, coriacea, supri lucidai 

 interdum buUata, subtfis glaucesccntia, nervis gracilibus, obliquis, parallelis. Petioli supr^ sulcati, basi pariun intumescentes, poUicares 

 lA-pollicares, aliquand6 brevissimi. Stipule lineares, acuminatse, semi-unguiculares, valdfe decidu^. Amenta gracilia, cylindrica, cano- 

 tomentosa, subsessilia, erecta, foliis plertimque breviora, axillaria solitaria et terminalia fasciculata, subpaniculata. Mascula valdfe 

 numerosa, basi interdiim composita, constantia fasciculis fiorum subglobosis, copiosis, sparsis, approximatis, bracteoia suffultis lineari, 

 subreflexa. Squama in singulo flore 8 v. 10 ovat^, obtusae, ciliatse, extiis toinentosoe. Stamina 10, squamis longiora; filamenta capillacea, 

 glabra; antherge fuscescentes, ovat£E; rudimentum ovarii centrale. Amenta farniinea in distincta arbore, rari^s masculis intermixta, 

 iisdem graciliora, fasciculis remotioribus, minoribus. Fructus vald^ numerosi, 3-4 collect! in.fasciculos approximatos, subsessiles, 

 digestos m spicam rectam, longissimam, lO-pollicarem, pedalem, imh sesquipedalem, cylindricam, diametrum 3-pollicarem emctientem. 

 . Nux globosa, vel subovata, apicuia cano-tomentosa terminata, fusca, furfuracea, demum lucida, magnitudine nucis avcUanse, nunc eadem 

 dupl6 major, msidens cupulas brevi, tomentosae, acutfe marginatse, squamis parvis, obtusis, confluentibus extds irabricat^e. 



This is one of the largest as well as the commonest sort of oak In Nipal, where It attains the most gigantic size. 

 Tlie wood IS exceedingly like the English oak in colour, and most probably equals It in other respects, but the moun- 



