634 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. QueVCUS. 



2. Q. lancecpj'olia. Roxb. 



Leaves short- petioled, lanceolar, entire, obtusely acumi- 

 nate, firm and lucid. Spikes panicled, terminal. JVuts 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 name in theGarrow country, where 

 it grows to be a 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 jtime 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- 

 forra, 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 the 

 female ones. Malefloioers minute, generally solitary, though 

 pretty much crowded. Calyx five or six-parted. Segments 

 ovate, and downy. Coro/ none. 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. J^Tut of a rather 

 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 corculum in the apex, fntegn- 



