260 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AyD PRODUCTIONS. 



X \ Fruit less than an inch thicTc, usual] y the sise of a cherry, the spines often recurred 

 and distant. 



C. TKiBuioiDES, Sm. JH.T. var. a Kliakyen Hills and Upper 



Xyan-za (Kurz), i.e. Rhinoceros food. Tenassuriui at 2500 to 4000 feet. 



Wet-thit-khya (Mason). 



Leaves entire or remotely serrate towards apes, glabrous, or minutely brownish- 

 tomentose beneath. 



var. aferox. Roxb. {Quercus). Leaves larger, entire, gLabrous. 

 var. /3 amiata, lloxb. {Quercus). Leaves smaller, serrate towards apes, often 

 thinly tomentose beneath. 



** Fruits armed with reri/ short pointed or hlunt cones, or deciduous tuhereles, and 

 hecondng unarmed and zunate. 



f Fruit iny inrolucre of a rertj thick coriaceous tcrture. 



C. EHAJiNii-OLiA, Kz. F.T. Tree forests of Eastern Slopes of the Pegu 



Ilange and Southern Tenasserim. 



Fruits armed with short cones. Leaves uniform green. 



C. i>'EE5iis, Ldl. F. T. Hills East of Toung-ngoo at 4000 to 5000 feet. 



Adult fi'uits unarmed, zonate, grey. Loaves silvery or coppery beneath. 



f f Fruiting involucre of a thin texture. 



C. (QTrEECTJs) LAircE^FOLiA, Rosb. E. T. Chittagong. 



Emits blackish, smooth, with 4 or 5 scarred annular rings. Leaves silvery or 

 coppery beneath. 



Wood light-coloured, durable (Kurz). 



Mason also gives C. Martabanica, Wall., which is probably one of the above species. 



QuEKCus, Linnaus. 



Nuts solitary, resting on a scaled or lamellate-annular cup, exserted, or at least 

 with the apex exposed. 



* The cup beset with more or less crowded imbricate scales, the scales sometimes 

 lecoming obsolete as the ftuit ripens, and showing as concentric zones. 



X Scales linear or subulate, spreading. Cup relreti/. 



Q. FENESTEATA, Roxb. F.T. Hills of Upper Tenasserim. 



Thit-kya (Kurz). (Generic.) 



Leaves almost glabrous, cup almost wholly inclosing the nut. 



Q. ACUMINATA, Roxb. Chittagoug. 



As the last, but the nut far exserted. 



Q. LAPPACEA, Roxb. F.T. Tenasserim. 



Leaves pubescent beneath. Xut exseited. 



X X Scales broad atid short, appressed to the cup. 



\ Fruiting peduncle several inches long. Fruits numerous, and more or less spicatc. 

 Cups velvety. Nut exserted. 



Q. AiinEESTiANA, Wall. .£'.71 Upper Tenasserim. 



Cup an inch in diameter, the borders often reflexed, greyish velvety, indistinctly 

 scaly. Leaves acuminate at the base, slenderly petioled, the neiTCS prominent. 



Q. Falconeei, Kz. F.T. Upper Tenasserim. 



Similar to the last, but the cup rusty velvety, distinctly appressed-scaly. Leaves 

 rounded at the base, very thick-petioled, the nerves immersed above, resembling the 

 leaves of Goniothalamus sesquipedalis. 



