FAGACEAE. — QUERCUS 229 



Calcutta, II. 33, t. 26, fig. 3 (1889). — Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 517 

 (1899). — Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 293 (pro parte) (1900). 



Quercus glauca, var. lineata Franchet in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 159 (1899). 



Quercus lineata, var. grandifolia Skan in Jour. Ldnn. Soc. XXVI. 517 (1899). 



Quercus lineata, var. macrophylla Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 294 (1900). 



Cyclobalanopsis lineata, var. oxyodon Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 654 

 (1912). 



Cyclobalanopsis lineata, var. grandifiora Schottky, 1. c. (1912). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, woods, alt. 1100 m., 

 October 1907 (No. 544; tree 6-10 m. tall); same locality, May and Oc- 

 tober 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 647, Seed No. 800); without locality, 

 A. Henry (No. 5QS2^). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan Hsien, A. 

 Henry (Nos. 5632, 5632% 5632^ 5632 , 5277=^). 



INDIA. Assam : Khasia, alt. 5000 ft., Hooker f. & Thomson (in Herb. Gray, 

 co-type). 



In western Hupeh and in eastern Szech'uan this is a common tree in woods be- 

 tween 600 and 1200 m. above the sea level. It is a low-growing tree with wide- 

 spreading branches which form a broad, flattened crown. The leaves persist through 

 the winter, but fall as the new leaves unfold in the spring. The winter-buds are 

 angular and are composed of many pale gray chaff-like, acute or mucronate scales. 

 The fruit is annual, spicate and clustered near the ends of the branchlets. The 

 cup is sessile and saucer-shaped and the gray concentric rings are somewhat irreg- 

 ular, not closely appressed, and are crenulate. The acorn is subglobose to ovoid and 

 is broad or broader than high. On the co-type the blade of the leaf is from 10 to 12 

 cm. long and the petiole is from 2 to 2.5 cm. in length; and on the numerous 

 Chinese specimens the blade varies in length from 12 to 21 cm. and the petiole 

 from 2 to 5 cm. The lateral veins are deeply or only slightly impressed on the 

 upper surface of the leaf. 



Wenzig united this species with Q. lineata Blume, and his view has been generally 

 accepted; to us, however, it is untenable. We have before us a co-type of Blume's 

 species and consider it distinct from Hooker f. & Thomson's Khasia plant, with 

 which the Chinese plant agrees exactly. In the Java plant the leaves arc narrower 

 and uniformly smaller, quite entire or with a few shallow, minutely pointed teeth 

 near the apex of the leaf; the winter-buds are small, ovoid and covered with few 

 brown obtuse scales. The cup is nearly urn-shaped, distinctly higher than broad, 

 and the concentric rings are very regular, quite entire or slightly crenulate, and 

 the whole cup is covered with a yellowish villose tomentum ; the fruit is subterminal 

 and, as the co-type clearly shows, ripens in the second season. 



It is probable that the specimens collected by von Rosthorn which von Seemen 

 (in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 294 [1900]) refers to Q. lamellosa Smith belong to Q. oxyodon. 



Quercus oxyodon, var. Fargesii Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Quercus Fargesii Franchet in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 158 (1899). 



Quercus lineata, var. Fargesii Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 517 (1899). 



Quercus lineata, var. oxyodon Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 293 (pro parte) 



(non Wenzig) (1900). 

 Cyclobalanopsis lineata, var. Fargesii Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 654 



(1912). 



