Quercus. MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. 641 
14, Q. lamellata. R. 
Acorns much flattened, but convex at both ends, and hid- 
den in the round cup, which is imbricated with ten or twel ve, 
concentric lamella, 
A native of the forests of Palo Pinang. 
15. Q. semiserrata. R. 
Leaves petioled, lanceolar, firm and lucid, anterior margins 
serrate; veins simple and parallel. Female flowers in axil- 
lary pairs, Nuts oval, acuminate, smooth, of a chesnut colour, 
base only embraced by the saucer-shaped, thick, belted, vil-. 
lous cup. 
. A large timber tree, a native of the mountains in the vici- 
nity of Silhet, where it is called Ramkatha; there it flowers 
about the beginning of the hot season, and the seed ripens in 
August. 
Bark of the young shoots smooth, lucid green, except 
when just unfolding, thin, clothed with a soft, ferruginous, 
woolly substance. Leaves scattered about the ends of the 
_ twigs, petioled, Janceolar, with the anterior margin remotely 
and acutely serrate, the apex acute, the texture hard,and po- 
lished, and the veins simple and parallel, from four to eight 
inches long, by one to three broad. Petioles about an inch. 
long, smooth, Female flowers axillary, paired and sessile. 
_ Involucre composed of from five to six, concentric, incurved, 
villous lamina, Nuts oval, pointed, smooth, of a chesnut’ co- 
lour, the size of a large olive; a small portion of the base 
only is embraced by the thick, aod, villous, saucer-shaped 
cup. Embryo inverse, without perisperm, as in the genus, 
16, Q. serrata, Willd. iv. 431. tin 
Young shoots densely clothed with ferruginons. wes! 
Pea oblong, lucid, hoary underneath, parallel-veined, 
Most acutely gross-serrate. Santer terminal, male and fe, 
male mixed. seta, dimen 
Gol-Shingra the vernacular name in the Sit. district - . 
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