1298 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



QUERCUS INCANA 



Quercus incana, Roxburgh, Hort. Bengal, 104 (1813), and Fl. India, iii. 642 (1832) ; Hooker, Fl. 



Br. India, v. 603 (1888); Gamble, Man. Indian Timbers, 675 (1902); Brandis, Indian Trees, 



626 (1906). 

 Quercus dealbata, Wallich, List, 2769 (1828-49). 

 Quercus lanata, Don, var. incana, Wenzig, in/anrb. bot. Gart. Berl. iv. pt. i. 222 (1886). 



A tree, attaining 80 ft. in height and 1 2 ft. in girth. Young branchlets white 

 tomentose. Leaves (Plate 335, Fig. 18) coriaceous, persistent two years, 3 to 6 

 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, rounded or taper- 

 ing at the base ; with ten to fifteen pairs of lateral nerves, all but the lowest one to 

 three pairs ending in a mucronate triangular serration ; upper surface glabrous ; 

 lower surface densely covered with white tomentum ; petiole \ to \ in. long, white 

 tomentose. 



Fruit ripening in the second year, solitary or clustered on very short tomentose 

 stalks ; acorn ovoid-conic, about an inch long, tomentose with a short cylindrical 

 umbo, enclosed for half its length in a hemispherical cupule, \ in. in diameter, 

 covered with closely appressed tomentose triangular scales. 



This species is a native of the north-western Himalayas at altitudes between 

 4000 and 8000 ft. 



The only specimen we have seen in cultivation is growing in the temperate 

 house at Kew. Mr. Gamble has young plants at East Liss, Hants, which are kept 

 alive with difficulty out-of-doors in winter. This oak has not, however, been tried 

 in the south-west of England or in Ireland, where it would probably be hardy and 

 worth cultivating on account of its handsome foliage. (A. H.) 



QUERCUS PHILLYR/EOIDES 



Quercus phillyrceoides, A. Gray, in Mem. Amer. Acad. vi. 406 (1859); Masters, in Gard. Chron. i. 



632 (1874); Franchet et Savatier, Enum. PL Jap. i. 446 (1875); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. 



Japon, text 58, t. 31, figs. 1-12 (1900). 

 Quercus Ilex, Linnaeus, var. phillyrceoides, Franchet, in Journ. de Bot., 1899, p. 152 ; Skan, m/ourn. 



Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxvi. 516 (1899). 



A small tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, or a large shrub. Young branchlets densely 

 covered with minute stellate pubescence, retained in part in the second year. 

 Leaves (Plate 339, Fig. 66) coriaceous, persistent two years, i\ to 2 in. long, f 

 to 1 in. broad, oval or obovate-oblong, rounded or acute at the apex, rounded or 

 sub-cordate at the base ; lateral nerves inconspicuous, about eight pairs, dividing 

 and looping before reaching the margin ; occasionally entire, but usually with four 





