Quercus] 



CVII. FAGACE.E 



631 



beneath anastomosing near the edge. Cup shallow, edge thin, undulating, much wider 

 than nut, bracts distinct. Xut -nearly globose, J in. diam. 



B. More than half the mature nut enclosed in the cup. 



2G. Q. pachyphylla, Kurz ; King Ann. ii. t. 38. Vera. Sungre KatHs, 

 Xep. 



A large tree, 1. elliptic-lanceolate, loug-aciimiuate, glabrous above, underside 

 pale, with minute stellate hairs, midrib and nerves glabrous, blade 5-8, pet. 

 J in., sec. n. 8-10 pair, impressed above, arching and anastomosing under the 

 margin. Spikes sometimes androgynous. Cups 1A-2 in. across, always con- 



Fig. L95. — Quercus pachyphylla, Kurz. J. 



fluent, forming large irregularly shaped masses, nuts glabrous shining, nearly 

 globose, almost entirely included. Var. friitii-nsa, Manipur, a shrub or small 

 tree, 1. smaller, upper portion of nuts free. 



Sikkim, 6-10,000 ft. common on the Singalila range. Mnnipur S,i'n"hi-!i.." ft. 27. 



Q mapniflca, sp. nova. Cochin hills east of Bhamo. Southern Shan States ."•.Jon ft., 

 in evergreen forest {Malman pau-wau, Shan. Montague Sill, Oct. 1908). A targe tree, 



1. entire, glabrous, rigidly corio as, elongate-elliptic, blade 6-9, pet. 1 in. long, 



upperside shining, underside dull, sec. n. 10-12 pair, prominent. Fr. on stout woody 

 spikes '■'■ 7 in. long, clustered, but cups hardly outlm-ni, cups i-m- luring § of tin- nut, 

 leaving o circular mouth open, trails woody, | in. t lii<k, bracts thick, hard, t riangular, 

 acuminate. Nut globose, lower half rough, upper half polished, pericarp woody, in 

 the upper half ,i. in the lower half J in. thick. Cotj ledons t luck fleshy, plano-convex. 



Several other si ies have an unusually thick pericarp: ','. Rax and Foraiana, Hemsl., 



of China, and ','• cornea, Lour., "f china and Tonkin. Tl pecies have lobed coty- 



ledons, lik-' the Walnut. The acorns mentioned under ',' Jenktnriana, Benth., in PI. 

 Brit, I ii-l. v, 618 also have a very t hick-walled nut, They however belong to Sect, v., 

 the nut Is entirely included in an ovoid involucre - in. long, tips of bracts large, 

 pyramidal, ','. pulehra, King Ann. ii. t. 81, Borneo, differs from 27 by the flat, not 

 shining top of the nut; ','. tpicata, Smith, by smaller confluent cups, and the nut 

 adhering to the cup with its circular base only, pericarp ; , in. thick ; Q. pachyphylla, 

 Kurz, has acorns as large but thej are confluent, the base onlj of the nut is rough, 

 while Hi" lit i- polished, the pericarp In 'In- portion being 1 in. t hick. 



