84 ON SOME CHINESE SPECIES OF OAKS. 
the Shanghai "Bund which Mr. Oarrathers refers to his species, and 
aig study of this material leads m whether its 
iden h Q. serrata has been fully established. The 
cimen from the Leyden Herbarium, labelled by Blume, Q. serrata, 
the leaves of which correspond wit th Mr. Carruthers’ type in their 
acumination, but differ in being little, if at all, attenuate at the 
and clothed with hairs, which under the lens have a much more 
shiaeey appearance ¢ than those from Shunghar stamens generally 
4, but only 8 in some few flowers on the catkin. In Q. acutissima 
the male “ower: a are very shortly but distinctly pedicelled, the 
perigone lobes in the catkin examined are only 8 (there are 4 in @. 
serrata), ovate or triangular, not cut down more than two- thirds ee : 
the base; stamens usually 8, though 4 were found in one or two — 
cases. My specimens have no fruit, and the female flowers ar 
very young, but the styles show a differe nee from Q. serrata iD 
being not dilated, a Arto notched, at the apex. Stauntons 
plant, which served a s type, has no acorn, but only a cupule, the 
scales of which are adpressed more closely and for a much longer 
distance upwards than in any of Q. serrata which I have examined. 
On the whole, it seems to me that the question of merging — 
Q. acutissima in Q. serrata can only be decided by the study of 
fuller materials, which should be ‘eanily Sater aga as the former 
tree is not uncommon in the Shanghai 
GLAUCA ab. —The first record 27) ne species in China 
was made in 1875, by Dr. Hance,* who had received it from the 
provinces of Fokien and Chekiang. I have a specimen, gatheree 
by my i i ian. 
and are be BOER CRANIRE mucronate, and the under piled of ‘all 
is velvety, with prominent parallel costules. They match @ 
Japanese specimen at cri hath from the Leyden Herbarium. 
There is also at Kew a men gathered by Mr. Maries in the 
Lushan Hills Mere se hie: is probably one of Blume’s varieties 
of this specie 
PE AR Alta de ced We OT YET mere 
* Journ, Bot. 1875, p. 363. 
