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above, and yellowish beneath. The flowers are disposed in two or three cottony spikes at the ter- 
mination of the branches. 
Q. concéntrica Lour. Coch., 2. p. 572., Willd, Sp. Pl, 4. p. 427., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 153., Smith in 
Rees’s Cycl., No. 10, Leaves lanceolate-ovate, pointed, incurved, entire. Calyx lax, very short, 
furrowed concentrically. (Wélld.) A large tree, a native of the lofty forests of Cochin-China; with 
ascending branches, and comparatively few leaves, which are stalked, and smooth on both sides. 
The acorns are oblong-ovate, and borne on peduncles ; the nuts are smooth, red, pointed ; and the cups 
short and lax, marked externally with several parallel circular furrows, 
Q. aciita Thunb. Jap., 175., Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 429., N. Du Ham., 7. p.154., Smith in Rees’s 
Cycl., No. 17., has the leaves oblong, entire, and terminating in a sharp cuspidate point; rounded 
at the base ; glabrous above, but downy beneath when young. The branches of this oak are knotty, 
smooth, except near their extremities, which are downy. The under sides of the leaves are, also, 
covered with a ferruginous down, when young, as are the spikes of flowers. A native of Japan. 
Q. serrata Thunb, Jap., 176., Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 431, N. Du Ham., 7. p.155., Smith in Rees’s 
Cycl., No. 25,, has the leaves oblong, serrated, velvety, and downy beneath, when young, with paralle) 
veins. The trunk of this oak is divided into alternate, and rather knotty, branches, which are of a 
greyish colour, with white spots. Found on the mountains of Japan. 
Q. glatica Thunb. Jap., 175., Banks Ic., Kempf., t. 17., Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 427., N. Du Ham., 7. 
p. 159., Rees’s Cycl., No. 21.; Kas no Ki, Kempf. Amen., p.816.; has the leaves obovate, pointed, 
serrated towards the extremity, and glaucous beneath, ‘The nuts are roundish and pointed; and 
the calyx, which is shallow, ismarked with concentric lines. Kempfer calls this oak an “‘ ilex, with 
short thick acorns, of which there are two kinds.”” Thunberg found it near Nagasaki, in Japan. He 
describes it as a very large tree, with spreading branches, somewhat resembling the ilex, or cork tree ; 
but with very large, broad, pointed leaves, smooth above, and very glaucous or mealy, and feather- 
nerved beneath. Smith supposes it to be the same as his Q.annulata, Q. Phudllata Don. (See p. 1922.) 
Q. cuspidita Thunb. Jap., 176., Willd. Sp. Pl., p.430., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 159., Smith in Rees’s 
Cycl., No. 24.5; Suz, vulgd Ssi no Ki, Kempf. Ameen., 816. Leaves ovate, pointed, serrated, smooth. 
Calyx prickly. (Thunb.) Kempfer calls this © Fagus folio Fraxini,’”’ a beech, or beech-like oak, with 
the leaves of an ash: but Thunberg describes it as only differing from Q. coccffera in its leaves being 
cuspidate, and their teeth not spiny. The leaves are small, and very glabrous; and the acorns, 
which are as large as a common walnut, have bristly cups. A native of Japan. 
Q. dentata Thunb. Jap., 177., Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 452., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 180., Rees’s Cycl., 
No. 26. ; Koku, Kempf. Amen., 816. Leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, deeply toothed ; downy beneath. 
(Thunb.) A tree, with thick, erect, furrowed, knotty branches ; cottony at the summit of the tree. 
‘The leaves are produced in tufts at the extremity of the branches, on very short petioles: they are 
soft to the touch, very lax and pliable, velvety on the upper surface, and covered with a very white 
cottony down beneath. Kzempfer calls this tree the white ilex, and says that the wood is also 
white. Thunberg states that it is a native of the hills of Japan. ; 
The oaks of China have been enumerated, as far as they are known, in p.177. The following have 
been described :— 
Q. chinénsis Bunge Mém. Acad. Scien. Petersb., 2. p. 135. Leaves ovate-oblong, elongated, acumi- 
nated, mucronato-serrate ; hoary beneath, Cups axillary, twin. Scales lanceolate, hoary ; exterior 
ones squarrose, longer than the globose nut. A tree, a native of mountainous places in China; flower- 
ing in April, and ripening its fruit the following year. It has exactly the habit and leaves of 
Castanea vésca, and is probably the C. chinénsis of Sprengel, with 1-seeded fruit. C. vésca is a very 
common tree in the north of China, with fruit always 2—3-seeded, and very like those of Europe; and 
the Chinese deny that there is any other species. 
Q. obovita Bunge Mém. Acad. Scien. Petersb., 2. p. 136. Leaves obovate, nearly sessile, thickly 
sinuated ; lobes round, quite entire, covered with rough dots above ; tomentose beneath, as are the 
young branches, Fruit terminal, aggregate, sessile. Outer scales of the cup ovate-oblong, blunt, 
silky ; inner ones elongated, linear, acute, bent back, longer than the roundish nut. A tree, a native 
of mountainous places near Pekin ; flowering in March and April. Bunge observed a third species, 
on the mountains in Pan-Schan, very similar to Q. mongélica Fisch. (see p. 1932.) ; but nothing 
certain’can be determined respecting it, from the imperfection of the specimens. 
App. vii. Oaks of Java, Sumatra, and the Molucca Isles, not yet 
introduced. 
Q. sunddica Blume FL Jav., t. 2. and 3.; and our figs. 1833. and 1834. The Sunda Oak. Leaves 
elliptic, acuminate ; narrowed towards the base ; glabrous above, somewhat glaucous beneath ; veins 
