CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CER. QUE’/RCUS. 192) 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves elliptic-oblong, sharply serrated, coriaceous; densely 
woolly beneath. Fruit in axillary solitary spikes. Calyx scaly, without 
prickles. (Smith.) “ Native of the mountains of Upper Nepal; flowering 
in April. (Buchanan.). The Parbutties call it Banza, or Banja; the 
Nawars, Soshi stringali. This is a . 
tree of vast dimensions, with a 
scaly bark, and rigid, brown, warty 
branches, clothed, when young, with 
dense white down. Leaves alter- 
nate, somewhat 2-ranked, stalked, 
elliptic-oblong ; sometimes rather 
obovate, pointed; from 3in. to 
5in. in length, and 2in. or more 
in breadth; strongly and sharply 
serrated, except at the very base, 
which is more or less rounded, and occasionally unequal; the upper surface 
green, shining, and naked (except when young), but not quite smooth to the 
touch; the under clothed with fine, dense, uniform, brownish, woolly pubes- 
cence, and marked with prominent, parallel, but not very crowded, 
obliquely transverse veins. Footstalks stout, downy, scarcely 1 in. long. 
Stipules ovate, membranous, deciduous. Male flowers in short, dense, 
hairy spikes, at the base of the young shoots, as they protrude from the bud. 
Calyx with 5 or 6 teeth. Anthers about 6, sessile. Female flowers, as 
far as Dr. Buchanan could observe, on a separate tree, in very short, soli- 
tary, axillary spikes. Acorns either solitary, or several crowded together ; 
small, ovate, hairy, half-covered by their scaly unarmed cups.” (Smith in 
Rees’s Cycl.) Professor Don, in his Prodromus Flore Nepalensis, had de- 
scribed Q. lanugindsa and Q. oblongata as two species; but he has since 
informed us that the specimen which he had of Q. oblongata being very 
imperfect, he is now disposed to refer it to Q. lanata. Dr. Royle, in his 
Illustrations of the Botany, &c., of the Himalayas, observes that the lofty 
summits of these mountains are covered with snow until May and June. 
“ The snow not melting until the sun has reached its most northern limit, 
the increase of temperature is great and sudden, and the vegetation propor- 
tionably rapid.” (p. 20.) “In ascending the Choor Mountain, on the 9th 
of May, at first the ordinary Himalayan trees, such as Rhododéndron arbo- 
reum and Quércus lanata, were met with; the pines then made their appear- 
ance. Every thing looked like the revival of spring: some of the trees and 
shrubs were putting forth new leaves, and others were in full flower. Higher 
up, patches of snow were seen; and beyond this every thing had a wintry 
aspect: the snow lay in masses, though detached, having melted away from 
round the trunks of many trees and the blocks of gneiss rock. At first, the 
Coniferz and other trees were intermixed with oaks ; but, latterly, the oak 
grew alone. Q. semicarpifolia formed the forest. On emerging from this, there 
is only a short ascent to the peak.”” (p. 21.) Q. anata was introduced about 
1818, and was first planted at Kew. There are now (1837) plants of it 
10 ft. high against the walls in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in 
front of one of the stoves at Kew, which produce acorns. In the arboretum 
of Messrs. Loddiges, and in that at Flitwick, plants of this species have 
stood out, without any protection, in the open garden for several years; 
but they are annually killed down within a short distance of the ground. 
There are small plants in pots, at Messrs. Loddiges’s, which bear acorns. 
£ 39. Q. annuta‘ra Smith. The ring-cupped Oak. 
Identification. Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 22. 
Synonymes. _. Phullita Ham. MSS., D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 57-; ? Q. Kamrodpi# D. Don, |. ¢. ; 
Q. glatica Lodd, Cat.. ed. 1836; ? Q glatca Thund. ; ? Q. acuminata Hort. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1805. 
Spee. Char., §c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pointed ; dentately-serrated, except 
towards the base; somewhat glaucous and downy beneath. Fruit spiked. 
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