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[Quercus 



B. Half the mature nut enclosed in the cup. 



12. Q. Brandisiana, Kurz ; King Ann. II. t. 25 A. Shan hills, Upper Burma. 

 east of Toungoo, in hill Eng forest. Donat range 2-5,000 ft., 



Hills 

 Tenasserim. A 



Fig. 193. — Quercus semiserrata, Boxb. \. 



middle-sized evergreen tree, young shoots thinly pubescent, 1. rigidly coriaceous, 

 glabrous when mature, from elliptic to obovate, undulate, or with a few shallow 

 serratures, blade 4-7, pet. 1-1J in. long, sec. n. straight, 10-12 pair, midrib, sec. n. 

 and often tert. n. prominent on the under and impressed on the upperside. Fr. on 

 spikes 2-3 in. long, cup softly velvety within and without, shallow, J-| in. across, nut 

 nearly globose, apiculate. 13. Q. velutina, Lindl. Chittagong hill tracts. Pegu, fre- 

 quent in Eng forest. A large tree, young shoots rusty -tomentose, 1. 'serrulate near 

 apex,?nearly glabrous, thin, lanceolate, blade 5-8, pet. \ in., sec. n. slender curved, 10- 

 14 pair. Cup densely tomentose, 1J in. across, lamellae crenate, nut depressed, velvety. 

 14. Q. xanthoclada, Drake in Journal de Botanique 1890, 149, t. iii. fig. 1. Wuntho 

 district, Upper Burma, 1,500 ft. {Dowaing, Burm.). — Tonkin. A large tree, branchlets, 

 petioles and axillary buds tawny-tomentose. L. coriaceous, minutely serrate near 

 the apex, elliptic, blade 4-6, pet. slender 1 in. long, upperside glabrous, underside 

 glaucous with scattered thin hairs, sec. n. 10-12 pair. Cup densely fulvous-velvety, 

 1-1J in. across. 15. Q. Helferiana, A. DC. — King Ann. II. t. 25 B. Manipur. Euby 

 Mines and other hills of Upper Burma east of the Irawadi, also hills east of Toungoo 

 and on headwaters of Yunzalin 3-5,000 ft. A large tree, stunted in exposed situa- 

 tions, branchlets and underside of leaves densely tawny-tomentose, 1. coriaceous, 

 glabrous above, except midrib, sec. n. 10-14 pair, impressed above, prominent be- 

 neath. Fr. on spikes 2 in. long, peduncle stout, cup almost flat, the edge incurved, 

 1 in. across, lamellje 8, very regular, denticulate, nut velvety, depressed, hemi- 

 spheric. This might perhaps be included under A. 



C. More than half the nut enclosed in the cup. 



