eee Se eee 
PLATE 2665. 
QUERCUS CORNEA, Lour. 
CUPULIFERZ. 
Q. cornea, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 572; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. p. 90; 
Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald, p. 413 t. 87; Benth. Fl. Hongk. . 322 ; 
Q. hemispherica, Drake in Journ. de Bot. 1890, P. 151, t. 3, £. 4 
CuinA: Hongkong, various colle B. C. Henry; 
Tonkin, Baanse, 2364, 2369 acta ne if Ms 568, 2367, 
2368 (cornea). 
The fruit, and more especially the seed, of this species had not pre- 
viously been adequately figured. Lindley (Wat. Syst. Bot. ed. 2, P- 441) 
made a separate genus—Synedrys—of it, on account of the ‘glans 
ossea, intus semiquinquelocularis seminis cotyledonibus in tot lobos 
divisis quot loculi, more Juglandis.’ As e — under Plate 2664, 
rou 
description is insufficient. But, as it has been accepted y Bent- 
ham, Seemann, and A. De Candolle, and as there is not, so far as 
I can gen eal specimen in existence to settle the point, we may 
adopt the With a considerable series of specimens before 
me, I have 1 no 5. heditatien in treating Q. appre Henge Drake as the 
c uthor agrees with me 
mn 
ts] 
oO 
wo 
no] 
oO 
i. 
d 
= 
Be 
| 
a 
@ 
Pa. 
ce 
e 
® 
; er 
South China. Mr. ©. Ford, the Superintendent of the Hongkong 
Botanie Garden, who recently sent a fine sample of the acorns, says 
a u 
Kwantung or ienicoed to supply the quantities seen in the markets.— 
W. Borrne Hemst 
Fig. 1,a fruit ; 2,a portion of the top of a fruit and the marginal series of bracts ; 
3, verte section of a nut removed from the involucre or Aung: 4, cross section of a 
as e top; 5. cross section of the same near the 6, cross section of an 
empty nu ar the g the ingrowths of the ule 7 and 8, an embryo 
in ibcoit 5 positions, 
