638 ftJONOECIA POLYANDUIA. QueVCUS. 



the female flowers only. Bractes solitary, iintler each flower, 

 small, downy. Male flowers. Calyx five-parted, downy. 

 Corol none. Filaments generally ten, inserted round a 

 woolly gland, two or three times longer than the calyx. An- 

 thers twoAohed, Female FLOWERS. /wuo/«cre armed with 

 numerous, incurved, soft, hairy, pretty long, eehinate spines, 

 which increase in size w^ith 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 ; month 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, eehinate, rather soft, hairy. Seed corn- 

 form to the nut, as in Q. I'obur, Gcert. 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 nu^ 



^tira chukmff, 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 tlsan that of the Eng- 

 lish oak, but seems equally strong, and is fully as close in 

 the grain. 



Young shoots perfectly smooth. Leaves alternate, short- 

 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 vipper side, about half or three-fourths of an inch long. 

 Spikes numerous, both axillary and terminal, the whole form- 

 ing a large panicle which is often larger than the leaves, and 

 very hoary ; in or near the centre, one or more of the spikes 



