228 SOME CHINESE CORYLACER. 
numerosis elevatis connexis 5-7 poll. longis 24-8 poll. latis petiolo 
fulvo-tomentoso pollicari, stipulis oblongis scariosis ferrugineo- 
ne ; oy : 
tomentosis 6 lin gis, spicis androgynis sprit ag basi squamis 
oblongis scariosis ferrugineis fultis circiter 2} longis, florib 
imis femineis reliquis masculis, stigmatibus Genghis divergentibus 
nigricantibus nitidis, hued pollicem latis, cupule nee 
squamis crassis lanceolatis dorso gibbosis atro-cinereis apice in 
_— gg omnino immersa vertice convexiuscula falvenkie 
tom 
ripas fl. Sui-kong, brachii australioris fl. North River, in 
. Kwang-si, 180 m. p. a Cantone, occasum yersus, m. Aprili 
1883, } florentem in collinis ad (apices montis Tan-ha-shan, cire. 
00 m. p. a goeteopel septentrionem versus, fructiferam invenit rev. 
B; enry ; in jugo Lo-fau-shan, m. Sept. 1883, fructiferam col- 
legit C. Ford. (Herb. propr. n, 22206 
This magnificent species is undoubtedly most closely allied to 
Q. cornea Lour., from which it differs much in foliage and indu- 
mentum, but resembles a good deal in fruit. This the writer has 
not been able to examine intern so as to give the result of a. 
poet comparison. The acorns are largely collected and sold for 
0 
Fully sensible of the great weight attaching to the opinion of 
Dr. Engelmann, who has so thoroughly studied the North American 
aks,* the writer yet ventures to express his conviction that 
Oersted } and Bentham} are right in pene. Q. iaees Hook. & 
-! in Pasania, rather than in maintaining for it a 
section, pieced gah founded by Alph. DeCandlle, and adopted by 
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Dr. Engelma 
es 3. Gueteaa SSatdes getiole, Sp. Nov. —Ramulis er 
e€rrim1 TTIM18 } ur 
ins. Hai-nan, d. 22 ee 1882, te rev. B. C. ‘Hen nry. Her 
propr. n. 222.09, 
Near the Penang Q. Wallichiana Lindl.§ 
$4, Quercus (Pasanta) synbalanos, sp. nov.— Ramulis ang 
latis glaberrimis nigricantibus, foliis coriaceis ellipticis integerrimis 
ee ae nee oe ee ee 
* Trans. Acad. Sec. St. Louis, iii. 372, sqq; Watson, Bot. California, # ii. 98. 
t Liebmann, Chénes de l’Amér. trop. 14; Recherches s. 1. class. d-Chénes, 
{ gts & Hook. f. Gen. plant. iii. 408. 
A diagnosis of this species, confounded by A. DeCandolle with the ber’ 
different Q. lamellosa Sm., was Peg and its position in the genus s indicated, 
Journ. Bot. 1870, 4, and 1874, 241 
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