pas an: 



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Wallich, indeed, did issue, along with his fruiting specim ns of this, some loose mal 

 inflorescences. But as he also distributed under the same number I :783) flowe 



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peciraens of a plant notoriously different from this (Q. mixta, DC.), I think it sa r to 

 assume that some accident must have attended his distribution and to leav i these male 

 flowers undescribed. 



Plate 32A.— Q. Amherstiana, Wall. 1, branch with female spike; 2, two connate 



ripe fruits; 3, cupule; 4, glans; 5, spike with young fruits,— all of natural $m. 



24. Qiekcus acuminata, Roxb. FL Tnd, iii. 630. 



Young shoots puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, almost membranous, oblong 



date or ellipt 



shortly acuminate, entire; the be B acute; both surfac 



glabrous when old and almost concolorous ; main nerves 10 to 12 pair-, prominent below 

 length of blade 6 to 12 in., breadth 2 to 4 in. ; petiole about *5 in. stout. Mai 

 spikes* * *. Female spikes solitary, axillary, shorter than the leaves; flowers olitary 

 sessile; styles long, diverging. Cupule, when young, turbinate, enveloping all the glans 



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its apex ; the bracts elongate, hooked ; ripe cupule cup-shaped, embracing hal 

 the glans, minutely tomentose, *9 in. in diameter and *35 in. deep ; the bodies of the 

 bracts united, their apices free and slightly hooked. Gbms broadly ovoid, apieulate 



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crowned by the persistent styles, the base truncate, minutely scurfy. tomentose, •!> in. loi 

 and -8 in. in diameter— Wight Icon. 221, figs. 6— 9; DC. Prod., xvi. ii. 1*0; Miq. in 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat i. 109 ; Kurz. For. Flor. B. Burm. ii. 484 ; Hook. fil. FL Br. I ml. 

 v. 607.— Q. fenestrata, Roxb., var. acuminata, Wenzig in Jalirb. Bot. Gait. Berl. iv. 221. 



Chittagong Hill Tracts. 



Originally collected by Roxburgh, but by nobody from his time until 1885, when 

 specimens were sent to the Calcutta Herbarium by Mr. A. Dowling, of the Kornafulli 

 tea plantation. Excellent specimens have now, however, been obtained by a collector 

 sent out from the Calcutta Botanic Garden. The species is a very distinct one, and it 



does not, as has been suggested, much resemble Q. fenestrata, Roxb. Under his No. 



Wallich issued a plant which he considered to be Q. acuminata, Roxb. (Q. gla m, Herb 



Ham.) ; but I have never seen this, and I cannot say whether it is true Q. aenmi, I i 

 Roxburgh or not. An admirable coloured drawing of this species, made under Roxburgh's 

 own supervision, exists in the Calcutta Herbarium. 



Plate 32B.-Q. acuminata, Roxb. 1, branch with spike of young fruit; 2, spike of 

 fruit farther advanced; 3, ripe acorn,— of natural size. 



25. Quercus lappacea, Rvxb. FL ln<l. iii. KM 



Youns shoots fulvous- pu bescent ; in the second year fuscous-pubescent, team mem. 

 branous, oblong-lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, acuminate, entire; the base acute or sub. 

 acute, sometimes slightly unequal; main nerves 11 to 33 pairs; upper surface when 

 adult, glabrescent, except the midrib and sometimes the nerves which are fuscous- 

 Pubescent ; lower surface puberulous, especially on the nerves and midrib ; length of 

 blade 5 to 7 in., breadth 1-5 in. to 2 in.; petiole -25 in.; stipules linear, caducous 

 pubescent. Spikes simple, solitary, axillary, as long as the leaves, or termmial and 



