112 FLOEULA HOXGKONGENSIS. 



of 



of HongJcong 



the determinations revised and tJte new species described by Geouge 



Bentham, Esa. 



{Continued from p» 78.) 



Amentace^ et affines. 



Major Champion's collection contains eight very distinct species of 

 Oak, none of which am I able to identify with any East Indian ones, 

 and four appear to be as yet unpublished, although the acorns are in 

 some instances wanting to complete the identification or description. If 

 to these we add the Q. tJialassica of Hance, which I do not recognize 

 among them, the number of species in this small island amounts to 

 nine, besides one of Castanea, representing all three of the sections cha- 

 racterized by Blume in his 'Museum Botanicum,' viz.: Lepidobalanus , 

 Endl. (Blume, 2nd section), with the scales of the cup more or less 

 distinct at the tips, and imbricate ; Gyrolecana, witb these scales united 

 in concentric zones, and Castmieopsis, with the cup irregularly zoned and 



almost closed over the acorn. 



1. Quercus (Lepidobalanus) cornea, Lour. M. Cochinch. p. 572 



Synmdrys ossea, Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. vol. ii. p. 441. 



A tree in the woods of the Happy Yalley, furnishing the edible fruit 

 mentioned by several travellers as sold in the markets of Canton, and 

 well described by Loureiro. The young shoots are slightly tomen- 

 tose, the full-grown leaves glabrous, 2-3 inches long, abruptly acumi- 

 .nate, and usually slightly sinuato-dentate below the point, coriaceous 

 and shining, rather paler underneath, with nine to fifteen prominent 

 parallel veins on each side of the midrib, and transverse, almost parallel, 

 slightly anastomosing veinlets, often scarcely visible; the petioles 

 slightly tomentose and rather slender, from 3-6 lines long. The 

 amenta are androgynous, few and simple, the flowers closely sessile and 

 distinct, the eight or ten lowest female with three linear styles, the re- 

 mainder male, with six divisions to the perigon and ten to twelve 

 stamens. The acorn and cup as described by Loureiro, Lindley, 



and Hance, 



2. Quercus (Lepidobalanus) reversa, Lindl in Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. i. 



p. 58. ic. xyl. 36. 



A tree in the Happy Valley woods. The specimens are in flower 



