. VSA.M \ 



I 



Var. Mamnh. 



Flower spikes slender, more than twice as long as the broadly -lane • c or ovah 

 lanceolate leaves; acorns cylindric-oblong, not turbinate 



Kamrup in Assam, — O. Mann; Munipur,— O, B. Clarke, Xos. 419 I and 420 

 De Candolle gives Nepal as a locality for this species on tho authority of Walli h 

 but I have seen no specimen from anywhere except the Khasia and Munipur Hills, 



This species certainly doe> not occur in Sikkini, and it is unlikely that it should occur 

 to the westward of that province. 



The plant to which the name dealba i was given by Walli- h [Cat. X *769) is Inn 

 Q. incana, Roxb. lloyle applied the name < dbata to his figure of ddaluta [lit. /. b 1 ) 

 probably by some mistake of his lit 1 1 * jrapher, for in his text (p. 316) the name / da/a 

 is correctly given. I cannot agree with Wenzig in r« garding this at a varioty <: 



feneslrata, Roxb 



Plate 40. — Q. dcalbata, Hook. fil. and Thorns. 1, branch with young Lnflore 

 2, branch with young fruit at various stages of maturity; 3, ripe- fruit; 



of 



Mannii ; 5, unripe acorns of the same, — all of natural size; 6 male flower: enlarge 



33. Quercus sriCATA, Smith in Ilecs 1 Encyc. 29. 11 



Young shoots sometimes pubcrulous; male inflorescence minutely toincntose : all otlu i 

 parts glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, shining, elliptic-oblong, oblong*lanoeolate or obovat. 

 oblong; the apex from sub-acute to obtusely acuminate; tho ed*. \ entire, gradually 

 narrowed to the acute, sometimes unequal, occasionally (in var. brevi-petioUta) minutely 

 cordate base; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs; length of blade 4 to 8 in., breadth 1 to 3 

 in.; petiole '2 in. to 1 in. Spikes in terminal panicles or fascicle!, a few bearing female 

 flowers, or solitary and axillary, about as long as the haves; the rachifl and male 

 flowers minutely tomentose. Male /lowers close together, bract* ■« late ; perianth I clef) 

 anthers 10 to 12. Female flowers in glomeruli of 3, or distinct. liipe J nit densely 

 crowded on a stout, erect rachis. Bipe cupules solitary, or 2 — 3 connafc saucer- sliaped, 

 embracing at most only the lower third of the glans, and tometimes less; the scah 

 ovate-lanceolate, adpressed, connate, pubescent when young, glabrous when adult. Cl«,, 

 ovoid-conic to depressed-globose, smooth when ripe.— Don. Prod, Fl. Nep. 56; Wall PL 

 As. Bar. i. 40. t. 46; Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. i. 848; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 106; In 

 Prod. xvi. ii. 85; Kurz For. Fl. Burmah ii. 486; Brandts For. Flora 481'; Gar Ind 

 Timb. 385; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 609; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot Cart. Bert it. -1; 



Wall. Cat. 2781 A and B; Oudem. Aanot. Cupul. Jav. 5, 6, /. i. L iv. fig. l.— Q. Arcuah 



Ham. MSS. in Spreng. Syst. iii. 857; Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 290.— ' , /r ana blia, Don. in 



Spreng. Syst. iii. 856; Prod. FL Nep. 57.— Q. squamata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 638; \Y 

 1c. 213.— <?. eleven*, Bl. in Batav. Verb. ix. 208; Bijdr. 518; Fl. Jav. Cupul. 21. t. 10 



Oudem. Annot. Cup. Javan. 5, 0, t. ii and iiL — <?• pyrifolia, Bat BL Mu Lugd. Bat 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 864.— Q. raccmosa, Jack in Mai. Miscj Keith, in Verb 



304 



Nat Gesch. Bot. 205.— (>. Arcuala, 11am., var. race, osa, Bl. in Mus. Bot i. 290 



On the lower slopes of the outer Himalaya from Eastern Nepal, through Bikkim and 



Bhotan, to the Naga and Khasia ranges; Chittagong, Burmah, the Malayan F 

 and Archipelago; at elevations of a few hundred " '\ ./[ , . 



Of Blume's species Q. pyrifolia, there is only a leafy twig in his herbarium at 



d fe 



Leiden which I quite agree with M. De Candolle in referring to Q. fjneata, Sm. 



