Querc?is.] amentace.e. 321 



Abundant in Wangnachung wood, on the east side of the Happy Valley, Cha7npion, but 

 not seen in any other collection. Although I have not seen the fruit, I have little doubt'that 

 this plant belongs to the section Castaneopsis. The inflorescence and flowers are prcciselv 

 those of Q. cusjy'ulata, Thiinb., but in that species the leaves are always more or less glaucous 

 or lepidote underneath. I know not on wliat grounds Seeinann refers the Q. Ei/rei%o Cns- 

 timea chiuensis, Spreng., with which it appears to me to have no connection in foliage, in- 

 florescence, or flowers. 



3. Q. salicinay Blume ; Seem. Bot. Her. 415, ^. 91. A tree of 40 ft., 

 the very young shoots silky-haiiy. Leaves nearly sessile, lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, entire or rarely slightly toothed, 2 to 3 m. long and seldom 

 \ in. wide, glabrous and green on both sides. Male spikes axillary, very 

 slender and pendulous, 1 to 1^ in. long, more or less rusty-tomentose. 

 Stamens 6 to 8. Female spikes short and erect. Styles 3 or 4, verv short, 

 divergent, with broad almost peltate stigmas. Fruiting involucre cup-shaped, 

 7 or 8 lines diameter, tomentose, with 5 or 6 concentric entire zones outside, 

 velvety inside. Nut half-exserted, broadly ovoid, slightly tomentose. Coty- 

 ledons entire. 



In the Happy Valley woods, Champion, Hance, Seeynmin, Wright, Not seen from else- 

 where. 



4. Q. Championi, Benth. in Kew Journ. Bot. vi. 113 ; Seem. Bot. Her. 

 ^.90. A tree, with more or less of a brown, scurfy tomentnm on the young 

 branches, under side of the leaves, and inflorescence. Leaves stalked, obovate 

 or oblong, obtuse, entire, 3 or 4 in. long, glabrous above when full-grown. 

 Male spikes clustered at the base of the young shoots, or solitary in the axils 

 of the nascent leaves, 2 or 3 in. long, pendulous when fully out. Stamens 6 

 to 8. Anthers hirsute. Female spikes short and erect. Styles 3, short, with 

 broad stigmas. Fndting involucre cup-shaped, tomentose outside, with 3 to 

 5 concentric zones, silky inside. 



In the Happy Valley woods, on Victoria Peak, etc.. Champion and others. Not known 

 out of the island. 



5. Q. thalassica, Hance in Kew Journ. Bot. i. 176 (1849). A tree of 

 20 to 30 ft. or more, the young branches tomentose. Leaves stalked, from 

 narrow-oblong to ovate-elliptical, acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, entire or irregu- 

 larly toothed towards the top, glabrous and shining above, glaucous or lepi- 

 dote underneath, the primaiy vehis alone prominent. Spikes stiff, erect, to- 

 mentose, \^ to 4 in. long, simple, and nearly solitary, or tlie males paniculate. 

 Stamens about 8. Fruiting spikes about 4 in. long, the fruits clustered in 

 the upper half. Cups short, 4 or 5 lines diameter. Nut ovoid, glabrous 

 and shining, about \ in. long. — Q. reversa, Lindl. ? (1850) ; Benth. in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 112; Seem. Bot. Her. t. 88. Q. Sleboldiana, Blum. Mus. 

 Bot. 290. 



In the Happy Valley woods, Champion, Hance, Scemann. On the Chinese continent 

 and in Japan. Hauce's specimens agree perfectly with the Japanese ones distributed as 

 §. acuta, and referred to by Elume under his Q. Sie/joldiana. Champion's liavc the haves 

 more acuminate and whiter underneath, and the spikes shorter and more dense. Liudley's 

 plant difi"eis slightly in the obovoid acorns which suggested his name, but all these arc jiro- 

 bably forms of one species. The Khasia plant referred here by Seemann differs in several 

 respects, and especially in the much more prominent scales of the acorn-cups, which are almost 

 nmricate. 



6. Q, Harlandiy Hance in Tf'aip. Ann. 382 ; Seem. But. Htr. t. 89. 



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