104 CHINESE ECONOMIC TREES 



Quercus phillyraeoides Gray. 



Evergreen shrub or tree up to 8 m. tall. Leaves coriaceous oval to 

 oblong-ovate, crenately serrate above the middle, occasionally entire; 

 dark green, glabrous, 2-4 cm. long. Fruit ripening in 2 years, short 

 peduncled; acorn oblong-elliptic; cup small, with short, closely 

 appressed scales. 



Hupeh, Szechuan and Fukien, Japan. Usually occurs as a dense 

 bush. 



Quercus myrsinaefolia Blume. 



Evergreen tree to 16 m. tall. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, cuneate at the base, serrate, lustrous green above; glaucous 

 and glabrous beneath, 8-13 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide. Fruit spicate; 

 acorn oblong-ovoid 1.2-2 cm. long; cup glabrous with 6 concentric rings,' 

 embracing 1/3 of the nut. 



Hupeh, Szechuan, Yunnan, Hongkong and Japan. 



Quercus spinosa David. 



Evergreen shrub, occasionally small tree up to 10 m. tall with 

 pendent branchlets. Young leaves densely tomentose or nearly glabrous, 

 always glabrous at maturity except on the lower half of the midrib, 

 beneath which is clothed with dense gray hairs. Leaves dark green 

 densely bullate, usually entire, occasionally coarsely spiny-dentate. 

 Fruit pedunculate, maturing in 2 seasons. 



Hupeh and Yunnan. 



Quercus spathulata Seemen. 



Evergreen trees up to 13 m. tall. Leaves coriaceous, usually 

 quite entire, shiny green above, glabrous or clothed with short curly 

 pubescence beneath. Fruit ripens the 2nd year, short-stalked; cup 

 mossy, with linear, recurved scales. 



Hupeh and Szechuan. 



Scattered over a wide area. 



Quercus engleriana Seemen. 



Evergreen tree of medium size, not over 10 m. tall. Branchlets 

 brown, tomentose when young, finally glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong, 



