Quercus] CVII. FAGACE.E 627 



in. long, slender, sec. n. straight 10-20 pair, each nerve terminating in a 

 sharp serrature, up to \ in. long. Fr. on the previous year's wood, nearly 

 sessile, cnp 1| in. diam., scales spreading, hoary, up to J in. long, nut shin- 

 ing, globose to cylindric, f-1 in. diam. 



Himalaya, from Kumaon eastwards, 3-8,000 ft. Khasi bills. Manipiir. Shan hills, 

 Upper Burma. Fl. March-May. — China. Japan. Korea. One of the species of Oak 

 on which the Yamamai silkworm in Japan is raised. 7. Q. dilatata, Lindlev; Rovle 

 111. t. 84 fig. 2: King Ann ii. t. 15: Collett Simla Fl. 474 fig. 153. Vein. Barungi, 

 Haz. : Morn, Punj. Hiud. : TUotij. Garhw. Kuram valley. 7-8.500 ft. X. AY. Himalaya, 

 5-9,000 ft., in the zone below that of Q. semecarpifolia, often associated with the Hima- 

 layan Spruce and Silver fir. In Kunawar as far as Jani. — Afghanistan. A large 

 tree, nearly evergreen, bark dark, peeling off in longitudinal scales. Compound 

 med. rays, similar to Corylua. Youngest shoots nearly glabrous. L. glat>rous r 

 shining, coriaceous, entire or with sharp spineseent teeth, blade 2-3, pet. J in, 

 $ catkins fascicled. ? spikes short. Fr. mostly solitary, nearly sessile, the- 

 lower half enclosed in the cup A in. across, scales closely appressed. Fl. April, 

 May, fr. C. S.. 16-18 months after fl. 8. Q. calathiformis, Skan in Journ. Linn, 

 Soc. xxvi. 508. Vern. Xaba. Burm. Ruby Mines district. Upper Burma, 4-5.000 ft. — 

 Yunnan 4-6.000 ft. A shrub or small tree, branchlets ridged and furrowed with a few 

 minute stellate hairs. L. thinly coriaceous, obtusely serrate or crenate, elongate- 

 elliptic, blade 4-8. pet. J in., upperside shining, underside pale, sec. n. slightly arching. 

 15-20 pair, i spikes from the axils of the uppermost 1., often branching, 2-9 in. long, 

 rachis ribbed, glabrous, with a few very minute stellate hairs. 6-8 fl. in compact 

 oblong clusters, in the axils of small bracts. Stamens glabrous, surrounding a hairy 

 pistillode. Acorns sessile, solitary on spikes 4-6 in. long, cup pubescent hemispheric, 

 J in. across, nut ovoid-cylindric j in. long. Differs from the other species of Lepido- 

 oalamu by the rachis of the 6 spikes being ribbed, nearly glabrous, not softly hairy, 

 and by the rudimentary ovary. 



Sect. ii. Cyclobalannpxix. Male spikes as in i. Cup hemispheric or cam- 

 panulate, bracts connate into concentric belts I lamellae). L. more or less serrate. 

 A. Mature nut exserted, less than half enclosed in the cup. 



9. Q. semiserrata, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 211; King Ann. ii. t. 22. 

 Thitcha, Lower; Zagat, Upper Burma. 



A middle-sized evergreen tree, youngest shoots and 1. clothed with soft 

 deciduous tomentum. L. coriaceous, glabrous when mature, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 upper portion serrate, lower entire, blade 5-10, pet. 1 in. long, see. n. straight, 

 faintly anastomosing close under the edge. Fr. on short thick stalks, solitary 

 or in pairs, cup 1| in. across, belts 5-8, thick, velvety, enclosing one-third of 

 the nut, which is cylindric-ovoid, 1| in. long. 



Assam. Gaxo and Khasi hills. Cachar. Manipur. Burma. Upper and Lower, 

 "fu-u in Kng forest. Fl. H. S. Var. Mannii. Assam. Khasi hills. L. with a long 

 cuneate base, cup with tl Ige densely velvety ami turned over. 



10. Q. glauca, Thnnb. 1784^ ; King Aim. ii. t. 23 ; Collett Simla Fl. 475 

 Eg. 155.— Syn. U- annulata, Smith 1819); Brandis F. Fl. t. 05. Vem. 

 lutein, Eaz. : Banni, Hind. ; Phandt, Kum. : Phalat, ISTep. 



A large evergreen tree, leaf-buds usually 4-sided, youngest shoots silky. 

 I., thinly coriaceous, on the underside glaucous and often minurely pubescent 

 with appressed hairs, upperside and petiole glabrous, blade 3 6 in., upper half 

 sharply serrate, base entire, sec. q, L2 -is pair, straight, excurrent into the serra- 

 tores, tert. n. Blender, parallel, pet. slender. .'.-J in. long. Bracts of tJ catkins 

 long, early deciduous. Fr. sessile, on axillary, short, often only l-fmited 

 spikes, cups hemispheric, belts thin, thinly silky, crenate. often divided into 

 broad truncate teeth, nut ovoid, apicolate, shining, J-jj in. long. 



Valleys of the outer Himalaya, ascending to 6,000 ft. Coppice woods of this and 

 of ','. incana, with standards of Albittia ttipulata in the ECangro valley. Khasi bills, 

 PL March June. Pr. 15 17 months after tl. China. Closely allied: 11. Q. lineata. 

 Bl. (1825); King Ann. ii. tt. 26, 27. Eastern Himalaya from Nepal eastwards 6 9,000 

 common near Darjeeling. Khasi nii'l Nags hills. Arakan. Hills of Upper Burma. — 

 Mai. Archip. China I., often tomentose beneath, Bee. n. 15 20 po r. Nui hemi- 

 spheric, of ten broader than long. The folL Indian varieties of Q. lintata : !*->l 

 by King in Ann. ii. 88: Oxyodon, Lobbi, Orijffithii, Thovuoniana, Billdebrandi. 



