CYCI >bai.v> >r — 



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17. QtJERCUa 111. I FEB! AN A, DC. Pro I xvi. ii. 101. 



Young branches and the under surfac of the leaves, even when adult, rutty - 

 tonientose. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, acute or 8ub->>btuse ; the upper 

 three-fourths coarsely serrate; the base rounded or sub-cuneat e j upper surface smooth 

 and shining, except the midrib and ner > which, when young, are laxly aerioeou> 



lower surface densely tomentoee; main nerves 9 to 12 pain, prominent beneath 



length of blade 5 to 7 in.; breadth 2 to 3 in.; petioles *5 in. to *75 in. stout. M 

 spikes unknown [Female spikes (fide Do Candolle) equal to the pctiolo, few- flowered] : 

 cupules thick, flat, patelliform; the edge incurved, 1 in. in diameter and only »15 in 



deep; lamellae about 9, conspicuously, densely, but minutely tomentoaa. '»&mi turbinate, 



mispheric, apiculate ; the base truncate, -75 in. in diameter and '4 in. high, minutely 

 and deciduously lepidote-tomentose. — Hook. fit. Fl. Br. hid. v. 605. 



Burmah; Moulmcin,— Ihlfer (No. 122), Brandts; on the Burma-Manipur faultier at 



Muku,— Watt (Nos. 5073 and 6G48); at elevations of from 2,"»00 to 3,000 feet 



A small tree, affecting dry exposed places. IMfers specimen, on which Gin doll 



founded this species, has only young fruit. Watt's specimens have ripe fruit (d 



) 



Wall 



d from these I have described it. The species is very closely allied to (J. mespilifoUo, 



but is distinguished from that by the permanently tomento>o under surfa. s of 



are 



the leaves, by the broad flat cupule and depressed glans. The mat. rials of both 



, however, very scanty, and the ampler materials which will doubtk * soon be forih- 



when the Burmese forests are better known may show that they are but forms 



of one plant 



Plate 25B.— Q. Ilelferiana, DC. 4, apex of a branch; 5 & G, ripe acorns; 7, cupule 



O 



seen from below; 8, glans,— all of natural 





18. Quercus velutiha, Lindl. in Wall. PL Aiiat. Bar. ii. 41. t. 1 ">0 



Youn<r branches deciduously fulvous-sericeous. Leave, membranous, oWonglanccolato, 



htly oblique, shortly but sharply acuminate, remotely serrate in the upper 



sometimes 



Wthbas actuate; both surfaces glabrous, shining; mam nerves »«•»!-- 



but prominent below, curving; length of blade 4 to 6 ,n., breadth 12 m. to 

 • p tiol about -4 in., minutely flocculent-tomentose. Male ,p*es pendulous^ «ltoy. 



' Pf 10 | e % a ' .u- i„„ „/♦„„ annual shoots i rachis sericeous; perianth 4-cleft 



thin 

 2 in. 



and in fascicles from the base of the annual shoots; racms s( ™= ,,___ ~~ , 



f Z 8 anthers sub-globnlar, sericeous. Female ,pike, under 2 in. long, sol.tan , 



stamens 8 «^^» ' A thick) not divari cating. Cupule,, when youn 



8 in. to 1 in. m 



conspicuously denticulate, broad 1 ^ o - ^ ^ 



depressed-turbinate -+£*£ ~ *V5* Ann . ,*..** Bat L 116; 



diameter and -o m. nig...- — • - • { k fil rl Ur j,„ t v . 606 



Chittagong Hill Tracts, - Dowhng, ImUt, Gamble 

 1 000 ieet,- Caleutta Bot. Gard. Colleetor, No,. 477, 545. 



' B^(PV^J-^ ]eaves of this are often n ear.y entire, and 

 *. ^paTof tht midlr^in many .eaves noccu,ent,omentosc 1*. the pet.ole. 



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