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LEPIDOBALANUS. 



Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 603.— #. lanata, Sm. in Wall. Cat. 2772 A and B; Rees' Encyc. 29. 27; 



Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 221 (excl. var. incana). — Q. Ban/a, Ham. MSS. 



Nepal, — Buchanan-Hamilton, Wallich, Scully; Kumaon, at Nynee Tal, 7,030 feet, 

 Thomson^ King, Reid ; Bhotan. (Kew Distrib. 4450) the ascent to Chupcha at 7,500 feet, 

 Griffith; Hills towards Bhotan, — G. Mann. 



This is a distinct and handsome species, and is by far the rarest of the Himalayan 



oaks. Its distribution appears to be very local, and good specimens of it have found their 

 way into very few collections. In fact I have been able to find ripe fruit of it only in 

 the British Museum and in specimens recently sent from Kumaon by Mr. Reid. Nobody 

 who has ever seen the two growing would think of uniting this with Q. incana, Roxb. ; 

 and even leaf specimens of this can be distinguished in the Herbarium by their plentiful 

 rufous tomentum, the vestiture of incana being more scanty and of a pale grey colour. 



Plate 19. — Q. lanuginosa, Don. 1, branch with male spikes; 2. branch with spike of 



young fruit ; 3, cluster of young fruit; 4, cupule of ripe fruit, — of natural size; 5, male 

 flowers ; 6, female flowers : enlarged three diameters ; 7, male flower ; 8, female flower ; 9, scales 

 of cupule : enlarged six diameters. 



7. Quercus incana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 113. 



Young shoots and leaves hoary-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or oblong 

 acute or acuminate; the edges in the upper three-fourths sharply, but rather remotely 



mucronate-serrate ; the base rounded 



upper surface glabrous ; lower densely 



covered with minute, white, stellate tomentum ; nerves 10 to 14 pairs, running almost straight 

 from the midrib into the marginal teeth ; length of blade 3 to 5, or rarely 6 in., breadth 

 1*5 in. to 2 in.; petiole about *5 in ; stipules linear, scarious, about *5 in. long. Male 

 spikes slender, more or less hoary ; bracteoles broadly ovate ; male perianth with 4 to 5 

 short, obtuse lobes, pilose externally; stamens 3 to 5 ; anthers glabrous, apiculate. Female 

 inflorescence few-flowered, axillary, sessile; styles linear-clavate. Acorns solitary or in pairs, 

 sessile or sub-sessile; cupule campanulate, embracing the entire glans when young, covering 

 only half of it when adult, about *5 in. in depth and breadth; the scales woody, sub- 

 adpressed ; the lower rows broadly ovate with thickened bases and blunt apices ; the 

 upper rows with thin sub-acute apices ; all more or less rough externally and hoary ; 

 ans ovoid, at first tomentose, afterwards glabrous. — Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 642 ; DC. Prod. 

 xvi. ii. 51; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd, Bat. i. Ill; Brandis For. Flora 482; Wall. Cat. 2770; 

 Gamble Ind. Timb. 384: Hook. FL Br. Ind. v. 602.— Q. dealbata, Wall. Cat. 2769. 



. oblongata, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 57. — Q. lanata, Sm. in Rees' Encyc. 29. No. 27. 

 lanata, Don. var. incana. Wenzig I.e. 222. 



The outer ranges of the Himalaya from the Indus to Nepal, at elevations of from 3,0(>0 

 8,000 feet; Shan States, Upper Burmah, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, — General H. Collett. 



A deciduous tree, usually about 30, but sometimes 50 or 60 feet high ; distinguishable 



from the preceding species by its hoary leaves. Wenzig regards Q 



iety of 



Q. lanuginosa, Don., which he believes to be the tree described by Smith in Bees' Encyclopedia 



under the name of Q. lanata. Until the present year (1888) this species was believed 

 to be confined to the North-Western Himalaya. But General Collett's specimens from the 

 Shan Hills show that its distribution must be greatly wider 



Plate 20.— Q. incana, Roxb. 1, branch with male spikes ; 2, with ripe fruit,— of 

 3, young fruit ; 4, male flower : 5, cupule : enlarged. 



