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CYCLOBALANOPSIS. 



A species allied to Q. mespilifolia and Helferiana, and more distantly to semiserrata. 



Plate 25k.— Q. Brandisiana, Kurz. 1, twig with young female spikes; 2, spike of 



half- ripe acorns ; 3, nearly ripe acorn : of natural size. 



15. Quercus lineata, Bl. Bij'dr. 523 {not of Miq.) 



Young branches puberulous (tomentose in var. 4), lenticellate. Young leaves densely 

 aclpressed fulvous-sericeous, adult thinly coriaceous, from lanceolate to ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, abruptly and shortly caudate-acuminate, entire or undulate towards the apex 

 (serrate in some of the varieties); upper surface smooth, shining; lower glaucous, 

 puberulous or minutely tomentose; main nerves 13 to 17 pairs, leaving the midrib at an 

 acute angle and running nearly straight to the margin, slightly prominent on the upper, 

 bold and prominent on the lower surface; length of blade 3 to 4*5 in., breadth 1*25 to 

 1-5 in.; petiole *3 in. to *5 in. Male spikes in small clusters, shorter than the leaves, 

 fulvous, sericeous ; flowers glomerulate ; perianth of 4 pieces ; stamens 4 ; anthers broad. 

 Female spikes on different trees, solitary, axillary, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered, 

 sericeous ; flowers solitary ; stigmas sub-capitate. Young cupides sessile, obovoid ; the apex 

 truncate, densely f ulvous- tomentose ; lamellae from 5 to 7, broad; their edges (especially 

 those of the lower two) denticulate or crenate. Ripe cupule cup-shaped or saucer-shaped, 

 from *6 in. to 1*2 in. in diameter. Ripe plans hemispheric, more or less depressed, 

 apiculate, smooth, shining; the base truncate, from *5 in. to 1 in. in diameter. — Blume Fl. 

 Jav. Caput 32. £19; Mus. Lugd. Bat i. 302; Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 855; Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. i. 114; DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 98; Hook. fit. FL Br. Ind. v. 605; Wenzig in Jakrb. Bot. 



Cart. Berl. iv. 232. — Q. polyneura, Miq. PI. Jungh. i. 11. — Q. oxyrhyncha, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. i. 347; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 113. 



Blume described and figured his Q. lineata, and Miquel his two species polyneura and 

 ozyrhyncha, without having seen either male spikes or ripe fruit, and no specimens with 

 these parts are to be found in the collections at Leiden and Utrecht, where the types 

 of Blume 's and Miquel's species are deposited. Blume describes the leaves of lineata as 

 " serrulatis integ errimisv e " and in his plate he figures an entire-leaved form with young 

 fruit attached, and a form with leaves serrulate towards the apex (fig. 1), but without 



fruit. He does not, however, refer to this fig. I in his text, and his specimens at 

 Leiden have all entire leaves. I believe that this fig. 1 in reality belongs to his Q. 

 turbinata which he figures on the preceding plate, and which I reduce as a variety of 

 lineata. But although Blume's description and type specimens are so far incomplete, a 

 comparison of them with the descriptions and type specimens reduced below convinces 



me that Dr. Wenzig (I.e.) is right in regarding them as only varieties of Q. lineata. Bl 



I have made a careful examination of the extensive suite of specimens brought togeth 



in the Calcutta Herbarium, and a comparison of these with the materials at Kew, the 

 British Museum, Utrecht, Geneva, and Florence not only confirms me in this opinion 



but leads me to believe that Q. glauca and Q. lineata with their varieties are really but 

 forms of one widely-distributed species which is found from Japan to Java, and runs 

 westward along the Himalaya as far as Hazara. To unite these two would, however, 



much unsettlement of nomenclature, which it is perhaps for the present desirable to 



id. The only character on which reliance may be placed in separating glauca fi 

 ata is in my opinion the shape of the glans. In glauca this is narrowly cylindric or 



