



SECTION I-LEPIDOBALANUS. 



Lepidobalanus. — Hale spikes simple, slender, lax, pendulous; involucres of fruit 



usually in. short spikes, cup-shaped; the apices of the scales free, imbricate, 

 solitary, sub-sessile ; leaves dentate or lobed. 



Acorns globular; cupule small, covering only base of glans ; apices of its scales 



membranous; leaves entire or spinescent- dentate, blunt 1. Q. semccaruifului 



Acorns sub-globular; cupule large, covering the whole of the glans except its 



apex; the scales woody, elongate, more or less reflexed; leaves acute or 

 acuminate, setaceous-serrate 2. Q. wrrata. 



Acorns elongate-ovoid. 



Leaves on same individual entire or spinose-dentate. 



Leaves glabrous ; nerves bifurcating short of the margin 3. Q. dilatota. 



Under-surface of leaves stellate-tomentose ; nerves not conspicuously 



bifurcate . 4. Q. Ilex. 



Leaves coarsely dentate-serrate, more or less obovate 5. Q. Qiiffithii. 



Leaves serrate, oblong to lanceolate, not obovate. 



Tomentum rufous 6. Q. lanuginosa 



j) 



jiale grey 7. Q. incana. 



1. Quercus semecarpifolia, Smith in Bees' Eneyc. 29, No. 20. 



Young branches puberulous. Leaves shortly petiolate, coriaceous, varying from elliptic 

 or oblong to obovate-elliptic ; the apex obtuse, rarely pungent-cuspidate ; the base more 

 or less subcordate or rounded ; the edges entire, undulate, or spinescent-dentate ; length 

 of blade from 2 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*25 to 25 in. ; upper surface glabrous; lower minutely 

 rufescent-tomentose, often sub-glabrous when old; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, prominent on the 

 lower surface, conspicuously bifurcate far short of the margin ; petioles '25 in. long or 

 shorter; stipules linear-oblong, scarious with pilose midrib, *o in. long, fugaceous. Male 

 spikes sub-pendulous, crowded ; the rachis pubescent ; bracteoles short, broadly ovate 



Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, Vol. II 



