634 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA, Quercus. 
_ 2,.Q. lanceefolia, Roxb. 
Leaves short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, obtusely acumi- 
nate, firm and lucid. Spikes panicled, terminal. Vuts oval; 
cup in some completely covering the nut, in others variously 
split and covering more or less of its lower part only. 
Shingra, the vernacular namein the Garrow country, where 
it grows to bea very large and useful timber tree; the wood 
light-coloured like the English oak, but harder, and reckon- 
ed one of their most durable timbers, Flowering time De- 
cember ; the seeds ripen in October. 
Young shoots somewhat angular and perfectly smooth, 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolar, tapering equally 
at each end, entire, acuminate, smooth, glossy, and hard ; from 
five to six inches long by one and a half broad. Stipules ensi- 
form, dropping before the leaves are expanded, Buds round, 
smooth, chesnut-coloured, and early formed in the axills of 
the leaves. Panicles axillary and terminal, composed of 
many, long, straight, simple spikes, with the rachis often end- 
ing in a scaly bud, which sometimes shoots into a branchlet. 
Spikes villous, the male ones most numerous, and below thie 
female ones. Male flowers minute, generally solitary, though 
pretty much crowded, Calyz five or six-parted. Segments 
ovate, and downy. Corolnone. Filaments from six to twelve, 
twice the length of the calyx, inserted round a convex, wool- 
ly gland in the centre, Anthers roundish. Female spikes on 
the same panicle with the male, but fewer and uppermost. 
Flowers always distinct, and less crowded. Nut of arather 
long oval shape, thin, a little hairy, brown, the size of the 
common acorn, or rather longer, Cup thin, attached to the 
rachis laterally, rather rough on the outside, somewhat vil- 
lous, sometimes forming a complete envelope for the nut, suf- 
fering the stigma to pass at a small perforation in the apex; in 
others it splits into. two or three portions, and then embraces: 
more or less of the nut, Seed conform to the nut, generally 
single ; when two, they are so closely united as to seem a 
single seed with a double eorculum in the apex. Integu- 
