Quercus. monoecia polyandria. 637 



Kanta go\a Batana, the vernacular name in Chittagong, 

 where it grows to be a large and useful limber tree. It flow- 

 ers in May, and the acorns ripen about the close of the rains. 



Voum; shoots somewhat villous. Leaves short-petioled, 

 broad-lanceolar, entire, acuminate, smooth on both sides, from 

 six to twelve inches long, by three or four broad. Female 

 spikes axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, villous, the 

 upper three-fourths occupied with distinct female flowers. 

 Involucre large, hoary, imbricated upward with acuminate 

 scales. PeHaw</i minute, five-toothed. Germ broad -ovale, 

 three-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the top of 

 the cell, ^%/e short. S/i/yma three, cylindric. A^m« ovate, 

 smooth, brown, rather longer than the common acorn. Cup 

 saucer-shaped, echinate, with short projecting sharp prickles, 

 embracing about one-fourth part of the nut only. Embryo 

 inverse, as in the genus. 



7. Q. lappacea. Roxb. 



Leaves lanceolar, entire, much acuminated, downy under- 

 neath. Spikes axillary, solitary. Nut ovate, villous, slight- 

 ly embraced by the inoffensive, echinate, saucer-shaped cup. 



Oo\oo chukma, the vernacular name in Silhet. On the 

 hills which bound the north side of the province, it grows to 

 be a large tree, and furnishes the natives with strong wood 

 in colour like that of the common oak, but of a harder tex- 

 ture and close-grained. Flowering time December; the 

 seeds ripen in the September following. 



Young shoots densely clothed with very soft down. Leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, much acuminated, 

 nearly smooth above, toraentose underneath, from six to eight 

 inches long, by about two broad. Stipules very downy, 

 and falling early. Spikes, or awen/s, axillary, solitary, near- 

 ly as long as the leaves, slender, very downy, some entirely 

 and densely covered with small yellowish, downy, male flow- 

 ers, others equally crowded with male ones, at the apex and 

 a few remote at the base, the rest or middle part, occupied by 



