CHAP. CV. CORYLA CEH. QUE‘’RCUS. 1935 
it towards the end of the year. The following are Dr. Wallich’s observations on this species : 
= ‘This noble oak has been : well described by Sir J. E. Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia, that I have 
very little to add jin this place. 
The young branches are thick, 
cylindric, and glaucous. Buds 
terminal, fascicled, or axillary 
and solitary ; ovate, obtuse, with 
many rounded, villous, anc 
silky scales, Leaves very hand- 
some, of a firm and leathery 
texture, sometimes Ift.long, and 
as much as 5in. broad; smooth 
and glossy above; more or less 
mealy, sometimes nearly white, 
underneath. The fruit is re- 
markably large, being as much 
as 2in. in diameter.” (Wall. 
Plan. As. Rar., t. 149.) Smith 
mentions that it was discovered 
by Dr. Buchanan (Hamilton) 
in the remote woods of Nepal, 
bearing fruit, in December, 1802. 
Q. seunicorps/lic Smith in 
Rees’s Cycl., No. 20., Wall. Pl. 
As. Rar., t. 174; and our jig. 
1832.; Cassina Ham, MSS., D. 
Don Prod, Fl. Nep. Leaves 
I have met with individuals of far greater 
dimensions on the summit of Sheopur. 
The wood is much esteemed by the natives, 
who employ it for various purposes of build- 
ing, and for making bedsteads, The acorns 
are axillary and terminal, mostly solitary, 
though sometimes geminate, oval, shining 
brown, smooth, about lin. Jong, termi- 
nated by a short columnar style, and sup- 
ported by hewienhiorical cups, about half 
their size; each having a sharp and entire 
circular orifice, with the outer surface 
densely tomentose, and covered with nu- 
merous, small, lanceolate, acute, imbricate 
scales. All the young parts, as well as the 
male inflorescence, the under surface of 
the leaves, and the cup, are covered with a 
copious, stéllate, loosely attached tomen- 
tum. The leaves, in young trees, are more 
or less spinous-dentate.”” (Wall. Plan. As. 
Rar., t. 174.) This oak would be a most 
desirable species to introduce, as it appears 
from Dr. Royle’s Iil/ustrations of the Bo- 
tany of the Himalayas, to be much hardier 
than Q. lanata. (See p. 1921.) He adds 
that Q. semicarpifdlia generally forms the 
forests at their highest limits, at from 
10,000 ft. to 12,000 ft. of elevation: it is 
found higher than any of the pines. At 
about 10,000 ft.on the mountain of Kedar- 
kanta, the encampment was formed in ‘‘ an 
open glade, surrounded with magnificent 
trees of A‘bies (Picea) Webbidna, and 
Quércus semicarpifdlia ; among which Rho- 
dodéndron campanulatum formed a large 
straggling shrub, in full flower, even in the 
midst of the melting snow.” (Iiust., p. 22.) Dr. Royle also mentions that the inhabitants of the 
mountains stack the leaves of Gréwia, U’imus, and Quércus, as a winter food for cattle (p. 19.); and 
that he found a new Quércus in the valleys of the mountains, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft. 
App. vi. Oaks of Japan, Cochin-China, and China, which have 
not yet been introduced. 
Q. glabra Thunb. Jap., 175., Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 427., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 152., has the leaves ob- 
lon: bfenneolate, glabrous, acuminate, narrowed at the base, and yellowish beneath. A tree, a native 
of Japan, with rugged, knotty, slightly spreading branches, generally growing two or three together ; 
with alternate leaves, entire on the margin, and feather-nerved; glabrous on both sides; shining 
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