638 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA, Quercus. 
' the female flowers only. Bractes solitary, under each flower, 
small, downy. Mate Frowers, Calyx five-parted, downy. 
Corol none. Filaments generally ten, inserted round a 
woolly gland, two or three times longer than the calyx. An- 
thers two-lobed. FEMALE FLowERS. Involucre armed with 
numerous, incurved, soft, hairy, pretty long, echinate spines, 
which increase in size with this organ, and give to the cup a 
fierce appearance, though soft and innocuous; they may be 
compared to the common bur;—hence my specific name. 
Calyx hoary ; mouth four, five or six-toothed. Style short. 
Stigma three, cylindric. Nut ovate, of the size of a large 
filbert, villous, crowned with the permanent calyx and style. 
Cup saucer-shaped, echinate, rather soft, hairy. Seed com- 
form to the nut, as in Q. robur, Gert. Sem. i. 183. t. 37. 
_ 8. Q. squamata, Roxb, 
Leaves broad-lanceolar, entire, somewhat acuminate, cori- 
aceous and glossy. Spikes axillary and terminal, often com- 
pound, the terminal ones panicled. Cups growing together, 
massy, rough and scaly, embracing slightly the base of the 
hemispherical, hard, glossy nut. 
Bura chukma, is the vernacular name in Silhet. A large 
timber tree, a native of the Garrow mountains, where it blos- 
soms in February and ripens its seed in September and Oc- 
tober, The wood is lighter coloured than that of the Eng- 
lish oak, but seems equally strong, and is fully as close in 
Boptin. 
Young shoots perfectly smooth. Lewis: alternate, sibel 
petioled, from oblong to lanceolar, tapering most toward the 
base, obtusely acuminate, entire, smooth, having the upper 
surface glossy, particularly hard and firm, from six to seven 
inches long, by about three broad, . Petioles smooth, flat on 
_ the upper side, about half or three-fourths of an inch long. 
Spikes numerous, both axillary and terminal, the wholeform- — 
ing a large panicle which is often larger than the leaves, and — 
_ very hoary ; in or near the centre, oné or more of the spikes 
