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QUERCUS GLANDULIFERA 



Quercus glandulifera, Blume, in Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 295 (1850); Skan, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 {Bot.), xxvi. 514 (1899); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. Japon, text 50, t. 26, figs. 13-24 (1900). 



A small tree, rarely attaining 50 ft. in height. Young branchlets slender, 

 covered with quickly deciduous appressed pubescence. Buds ovoid, \ in. long, with 

 ciliate glabrous scales. Leaves (Plate 335, Fig. 27) deciduous in autumn, 3 to 5 in. 

 long, 1 to 2 in. broad, membranous, obovate or elliptical, acuminate at the apex, 

 usually cuneate at the base ; with eight to eleven pairs of lateral nerves, all but the 

 lowest pair ending in a serration, tipped with a short glandular cartilaginous mucro ; 

 upper surface dark green, shining, with deciduous appressed silky pubescence ; lower 

 surface pale green, with similar but persistent pubescence ; petiole \ to \ in long, 

 appressed, pubescent. 



Fruit, ripening in the first year, solitary or clustered, on a glabrescent short 

 peduncle ; acorn \ in. long, surrounded at the base by a shallow cupule, \ in. broad, 

 covered with lanceolate pubescent scales. 



This species is widely spread throughout China, Korea, and Japan. There are 

 four small trees at Kew, about 10 ft. high, which were obtained from the Arnold 

 Arboretum in 1893 i an d a small specimen is also growing at Aldenham. 



(A. H.) 



QUERCUS GROSSESERRATA 



Quercus grosseserrata, Blume, in Mus. Lugd. Bot. i. 306 (1850); Sargent, Forest Flora of Japan, 67 



(1894); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. Japon, text 53, t. 27, figs. 16-28 (1900). 

 Quercus crispula, 1 Blume, var. grosseserrata, Miquel, in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 104 (1863). 



A tree, attaining 100 ft. in height and 12 ft. in girth. Branchlets and buds 

 glabrous. Leaves (Plate 337, Fig. 49) deciduous in autumn, sub-sessile, mem- 

 branous, 4 to 6 in. long, 3 to 3J in. broad, obovate, acuminate at the apex, tapering 

 to a narrow auricled truncate base, with twelve to fifteen pairs of regular triangular 

 non-mucronate teeth ; upper surface dull, dark green, glabrous except for long hairs 

 on the midrib ; lower surface paler, glabrous, with long hairs on the midrib and 

 lateral nerves, each of which except the lower one or two pairs ends in the apex 

 of a tooth ; petiole ^ in., glabrous. 



Fruit ripening in the first year, clustered at the ends of the branchlets, solitary 

 or two to three on short peduncles ; cupule hemispheric, about \ in. in diameter, 

 with appressed grey tomentose ovate scales, enclosing about one-third of the ovoid 

 acorn, which falls out of the cupule when ripe. (A. H.) 



1 Quercus crispula, Blume, in Mus. Lugd. Bot. i. 298 (1850), according to Sargent, is indistinguishable in foliage : but is 

 said by Miyabe to have different fruit, the cupule being deeper and enclosing half the cylindrical acorn, cupule and acorn 

 falling together when ripe. Shirasawa only mentions and describes one species, Q. grosseserrata. 



