GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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Standish 
iNoble by Mr. fortune, we presume that it forma a tree with the 
habit of the Evergreen Oak. The leaves are deep green, covered 
with a short glaucous down on the underside, but quite smooth and 
shining on the upper ; they are always contracted into a short blunt 
cusp at the point, where they are also sometimes serrated. The cups 
of the acorns are much like those of the Evergreen Oak, but the 
acorns are wider at the upper than at the lower end. The male 
flowers are produced at the ends of the same branches as carry the 
females, but are much more compactly arranged, forming long downy 
tails. The inflorescence consists of many such branches produced at 
the points of the shoots. The female flowers are tolerably regularly 
sessile in threes, 
90. Quercus sclerophylla. An evergreen Oak 
from the north of China, sent by Mr, Fortune to 
Messrs. Standish and Noble. (Fig. 37.) 
Q. schrophylla; sempervirens, ramis glabris, foliis petinlati* 
coriaceis glabris acuminatis obtusis ultra medium groaae aerratis 
supra lsevibus subtus glauco-pubescentibus, glandibus spicatis pubei- 
centibus sphaericis paulo ultra cupulam protnuis, cupulis tomentosis 
squamis elevatis quasi tuberculatis. 
A much finer oak than the last, with a very peculiar aspect 
Some of the leaves are six inches long and nearly three inches broad ; 
their texture is that of a Spanish Chestnut, but thicker ; their colour 
rich bright green on the upper side, and glaucous with fine down on 
