642 MONOECiA POLYANDRIA, Quercus. 



tween Silhet and the river Brahmunputra, where it grows to 

 be a large, and like the most of the other species, natives of 

 that mountainous tract, a useful timber tree. Flowering time, 

 the end of the rains. 



In this species the young shoots are very completely cloth- 

 ed with much soft, dark brown down. The leaves very hard, 

 with very numerous, simple, and parallel veins, each termi- 

 nating in a sharp serrature like those oi DUlenia speciosa ; 

 some few are now and then sharply laciniate, even lobate. 



Spikes terminal, sub-panicled, consisting of only a i'ew dis- 

 tinct male and female, downy aments. Male floioers with a 

 five-leaved calyx, and from ten to twelve stamina ; female 

 ones as in the other species. The acorn I have not yet seen. 



17. Q. incana. Roxb. 



Leaves cord ate- oblong, firm, remotely and acutely serrate, 

 smooth above, hoary underneath. Male aments panicled, 

 shorter than the leaves ; floioers pentandrous. Scorns ovate- 

 oblong, half hid in a sub-rotund, scaly, tubercled cup. 



A large timber tree, a native of the mountains of Kamaoon, 

 Almora, and other countries north of the plains of Hindoo- 

 sthan. A short account of the tree is given by Col. Hard- 

 wicke in his Journey to Shreenagur. Asiat. Res. vi. 374. 



Young shoots hoary. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, ob- 

 long, with a cordate base, acute, remotely and acutely serrate, 

 of a rigid texture, smooth above, hoary underneath, from 

 three to six inches long, and from one to two broad. Sti- 

 pules and bractes linear-lanceolate, membranaceous, cadu- 

 cous. Male aments filiform, numerous, forming small, ter- 

 minal, or axillary panicles. Calyx horn four to five-cleft, and 

 ciliate. Stamens from four to eight. Female peduncles axil- 

 lary, lateral or terminal, very short, from one to many.flow- 

 ered, three seems the most common number. Stigma three- 

 cleft. J\'ut ovate-oblong, smooth, with a villous apex, crown- 

 ed with part of the remaining style. Cwp roundish, imbri- 

 cated with suiall tubercled scales. 



