QuercHs. monoecia polyandria. 639 



more robust, and shorter ; such, so far as I have observetl, 

 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. 

 Bracles 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 <)(" 

 the filaments is a very woolly gland. Female calyx as in 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. 

 5'eec? solitary, conform to the nut, as in the genus. 



9. Q.ferox. lloxb. 



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 comj)lete!y the sub-ovate 

 acorn. 



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, firmandglossy ; from three 

 to six inches long, by from one to three broad. Spikes termi- 

 nal, panicled, long and slender ; the male ones many, the^e- 

 male ones few. Male floioers 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 



