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CYCLO BALANOPSIS. 





Specimens of this in flower and young fruit were collected by Messrs. Gamble and 

 Lister some years a°ro at Kasalong and Rangatnattia in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, 



d in the Calcutta Herbarium they were referred doubtfully to Q. semiserrata, Roxb 

 The receipt during the past year from Mr. Dowling, of Kornafuli (Chittagong), of 

 a large suite of fruiting specimens at all stages of development makes it clear that thi 

 is a well-marked and distinct species. The leaves of this, although rather like those of 

 semiserrata, Roxb., have a thinner texture, with finer and more curving nerves. This 

 species is, however, better distinguished from semiserrata by its flocculent petioles, golden 

 and persistently tomentose cupules with much serrated lamellae, and by its flattened 

 lepidote-tomentose glans half enclosed in the cupule. 



Plate 29A.— Q. velutina, Lindl. 1, branch with ripe fruit ; 2, young fruit; 3, male spikes 



with old leaf, — all of natural size. 



19. Quercus lamellosa, Smith in Bees' Cycl 29. No. 23. 



Young parts flocculently fulvous-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or elliptic ; the 

 apex acute or acuminate ; the base acute, rarely obtuse, remotely and sharply serrate in 

 the upper three-fourths; upper surface glabrous, lower glaucous, minutely puberulous on 

 the nerves when young; main nerves 12 to 20 pairs, very bold and prominent below; 

 the secondary nerves transverse, distinct; length of blade 7 to 9 or even 12 in., breadth 

 2 '5 to 4'5 in. ; petiole 1*25 in. to 1*75 in. Male spikes solitary, axillary, much shorter 

 than the leaves ; the rachis fulvous-tomentose ; flowers sub-glomerulate. Female spikes (on 

 different trees) very short, axillary, 3 to 4-flowered. Cupules very large, embracing two 

 thirds of the glans, sessile, obovoid-truncate, and with few lamellae when young, turbinate 

 when adult; 2 in. to 2 5 in. in diameter and 1 in. to 1*5 in. deep; lamellae about 10, 

 thin, broad, minutely tomentose, finely serrate, their edges erose or sub-entire. Glans 

 turbinate when ripe, apiculate, almost covered by the cupule ; the exposed part tomentose 

 when young, afterwards smooth; 1*5 in. in diameter and 1*25 in. deep. — Wall. Cat. 

 2777; Lindl. in Wall. PL As. Rarior. ii. 41. t. 149; Hook, fl. et Cathc. III. Him. PI. t. 



20; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 114; DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 101 (excl. syn. Q. Waliichiam); 



Brandis For. Flor. 488; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Cart. Berl. iv. 236.; Gamble Ind. Timb. 387 



Hook. fit. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 606.— $. imbricata, Ham. Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 57.— Q. pauci- 



lamellosa, DC. Prod. I.e. 101. — ^. lamellata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 641; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 858; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 115. 



Eastern Himalaya from Nepal to Bhotan at elevations of 5,000 to 8,000 feet • 

 Kaga Hills, — Watt, Clarke, Prain ; Duffla Hills, — Lister. 



A magnificent tree, from 80 to 120 feet high. In the size of its acorns and leaves 

 this rivals the tropical Malayan species cyclophora, from which, however, it is perfectly 

 distinct. I have little doubt that Roxburgh's species Q, lamellata falls here. Roxburgh's 

 description is too brief for identification, but his figure of the acorn in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium, named by his own hand, can belong to nothing else. By an error quite 

 surprising in so accurate a writer, he attributes the species to Penang— an impossible 

 habitat for so truly temperate a tree. M. De Candolle's species pauci- lamellosa is, I am 

 convinced, founded on specimens of this with immature fruit. 



male 



Plate 30. — Q. lamellosa, Sm. 1, leaves and ripe acorn; 2, young acorns; 3 

 florescence,— all of natural size. 



