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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Q. Ednja Ham. MSS. ; ? Q. oblongata 



C. Natives of Nepal. 



x. Lanatce. Woolly or downy-Jeaved Oaks. 



Sect. Char. Leaves oval-oblong or lanceolate, serrated or dentatecl, but not 

 sinuated or lobed ; woolly beneath. Trees evergreen, natives of Nepal ; 

 and only half-hardy in the climate of London. They may be propagated 

 by cuttings, which root without much difficulty; and the plants require the 

 protection of a wall. 



1 39. Q. I.ANA'TA Smith. The woo\\y-leaved Nepal Oak. 



Identification. Smith in Rees's Cycl., No. 27. 

 Synonymes. Q. lanuginbsa D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 57. ; 



D. Don, 1. c. ; ? Q. incana Royle Illust. p. 341. 

 Engraving. Our Jig. 1633. from the tree at Kew. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves elliptic-oblong, sharply serrated, coriaceous ; densely 

 woolly beneath. Fruit in axillary solitary spikes. Calyx scaly, without 

 prickles. (Smith.} A large evergreen tree. Upper Nepal, on mountains. 

 Height 60 ft. to 80 ft. ; in England a half-hardy shrub. Introd. in 1818. 

 Flowers greenish white ; May. Acorns occasionally produced. 

 In its native country this is a tree of 



vast dimensions, with a scaly bark, and 



rigid, brown, warty branches, clothed, 



when young, with dense white down ; 



but in England it has not yet been seen 



above 10 ft. high, and it requires to 



attain this height the protection of a 



wall. In the Hackney arboretum, and 



in that at Flitwick, plants of this spe- 



cies have stood out, without any pro- 



tection, in the open garden for several 



years, but they are annually killed down 



within a short distance of the ground ; nevertheless, in Messrs Loddiges's 



nursery, plants in pots have borne acorns. 



i * 40. Q. ANNULA'TA Smith. The ring-cupped Oak. 



Identification. Smith in Rees's Cycl., No. 22. 

 Synonymes. Q.Phullata Ham. MSS., D Don Prod. 



Fl. Nep. p. 57. ; ? Q. Kamro6p?> D. Don, 1. c. ; . 



glauca Lodd. Cat. td. 1836 ; ? . glauca Thunb. ; 



? Q. acuminata Hort. 

 Engraving. Our Jig. 1634. from a living specimen. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed ; dentately serrated, except to- 

 wards the base ; somewhat glaucous and 

 downy beneath. Fruit spiked. Nut 

 oblong. Calyx furrowed concentrically. 

 (Smith.) A large evergreen tree. Nepal, 

 in various places. Height 50ft. to 60 ft.; 

 in England a half-hardy shrub. Intro- 

 duced in 1822. 



Leaves evergreen, rigid, somewhat silky 

 beneath, the young ones very silky. Stipules 

 linear, hairy, longer than the footstalks, 

 deciduous. Male flowers in pendulous, 

 hairy, yellowish, shortish spikes, springing 

 from the buds below the leaves. There are 

 specimens of this tree in the Botanic Gar- 

 den at Kew, which are found to be deci- 

 dedly hardier than the plants of Q. lanata 

 in the same garden. 



