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does itself from any form of Q. sessilijlora in my possession, and these 

 show conclusively enough that the subdivisions of Oersted's Eulepido- 

 lalani § Lolatce are untenable. Indeed, A. De Candolle had already 

 stated that the specimens in his hands of the species included in 

 Oersted's third subdivision presented no characters to separate them 

 from Q. robur. I have specimens from the Peking mountains, gathered 

 by Skatschkoff, Bretschneider, and Yon Moellendorff. 



2. Quercus crii^pida, Bl., which I only know in its variety ^ross^- 

 scrrata, I am equally unable to distinguish from Q. sessilijlora. The 

 two acorns I possess (from different Japanese localities) are ovoid, two- 

 thirds exserted from the cup, and with a prominent pale hilum. One 

 specimen has leaves exactly like those of Q. 7nongolica, Fisch. ; in another 

 they are in outline, cutting, and venation on the upper surface absolutely 

 undistinguishable from the American Q. castanea, Willd. ; but they 

 are subcordate at the base, their petiole is shorter, and they are not 

 whitened beneath. I think it more than likely that Pallas will be 

 found, after all, to have judged rightly in referring Q. mongolica to 

 Q. sessiliflora. Blume appears to have worked at the Oaks in the 

 Leiden herbarium with reprehensible looseness and haste. Miquel, 

 indeed, "^ suspects three of his species to be founded on leaves off the 

 same tree 1 a parallel to which might perhaps be occasionally discovered 

 amongst some of the reported novelties in palteophytology. 



3. Quercus Fahri, Hance. — Specimens of this with ^ inflorescence, 

 gathered respectively by Mr. Swinhoe in 1871 at IN'ingpo, and by Mr. 

 F. B. Forbes in April, 1874, on an island in Tai hu Lake, near the 

 city of Suchau ; and others with $ inflorescence and good fruit, sent 

 me by the llev. G. E. Moule from Hang chau, enable me to improve 

 and complete the diagnosis,! originally drawn up from a solitary speci- 

 men, collected somewhere in the Shanghae district by Dr. Fabre- 

 Tonnerre. 



Innovationibus dense ochraceo-stellato-tomentosis, ramulis angu- 

 latis griseo-cinereis ferrugineo-hispidis, foliis maturis 6|-7 poll, longis 

 li-4 poll, latis petiolo 2-4 lineali coriaceis obovatis v. oblongis 

 obtusis grosse sinuatis lobulis utrinque circiter 7 rotundatis cos- 

 tulis in utroque latere 9-11 sub angulo 50° egressis ultra marginem 

 hand excurrentibus satis validis rectis cum costa robusta venisque 

 eecundariis et tertiariis subtus conspicue elevatis supra glaberrimis 

 lucid ulis subtus tomento denso brevi stellato pallide ochraceo-flaventi 

 tectis, gemmis pilosis, stipulis linearibus pilosis 3 lin. longis, floribus 

 masculis basin versus medioque rachidis gracilis pilosa? amenti sparsis 

 apicem versus congestis, perigonii lobis hispidis, staminibus 6-8 antheris 

 glabris, floribus femineis 12-18 secus pedunculum 1-2 poUicarem sessili- 

 bus dense fulvido-tomentosis, fructibus 1-4 tantum maturatis, cupulis 

 hemisphsericis 3 lin, altis 4-5^ lin. latis squamis 6-8 seriatis ovato- 

 lanceolatis obtusis f lin. longis adpressis dorso convexis summis erectis 

 laete castaneis infra medium tomentosis ciliatis, glande glaberrima 

 oblonga v. cylindracea pallida acuta v. obtusa 8-10 lin. longa 4-6 lin. 

 diametro hilo carpico albido piano stylis coronata. 



The species, which seems very well marked, at least as compared 



* Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., i,, 104. t Proc. Linn. Soc, x., 202. 



