Quercus. MONOECIA POLYANDRIA, - 639 
more robust, and shorter; such, so far as I have observed, 
bear female flowers only, they are in‘more remote fascicles of 
three each; the small spikes are longer, and have the little 
bundles of flowers longer, and much nearer to each other, 
Bractes broad-ensiform, under each of the little bundles of 
flowers. Male calyx of about six, unequal, very woolly 
scales, Filaments twelve, three times longer than the calyx, 
smooth. Anthers oval. Germ, in the centre of the insertion of 
the filaments is a very woolly gland. Female calyx asin the 
genus, and like the male one very woolly. Nut in shape not 
far removed from hemispheric, being nearly truncated at the 
base, and there rather above an inch in diameter, polished, 
dark brown, very hard, one-celled. Cup saucer-shaped, 
’ hard, having its surface imbricated with small pointed scales, 
Seed solitary, conform to the nut, as in the genus, 
_  ilalasineaaae 
9. Q. ferox. Roxb. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, and oblong-acute, entire, glossy. 
Male spikes pointed; flowers with a six-cleft calyx, and 
twelve stamina, Cup an entire evalvular capsule, armed with 
many compound thorns, hiding completely the sub-ovate 
acorn. ne 
A large timber tree, a native of the Chittagong mountains. 
Flowering time the beginning of the hot season; the seed 
ripens in July and August. 
Young shoots void of pubescence, but marked with lighter 
coloured specks, Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong and 
broad-lanceolar, acuminate, entire, firm and glossy ; from three 
to six inches long, by from one to three broad. Spikes termi- 
nal, panicled, long and slender ; the male ones many, the fe- 
male ones few. Male flowers minute, collected into small 
globular, approximate bundles over the long filiform spikes. 
Calyx six-cleft, villous. Filaments twelve, twice the length 
. of the calyx. Anthers oval. Nut sub-ovate, of the size of a 
___ filbert, smooth, completely covered by the entire, evalvular * 
. capsule-like cup, or involucre which is powerfully armed all 
