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Quercus. } AMENTACER. 485 
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Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fr. March. 
6. Q. polystachya, Wall.—An evergreen tree, the younger 
branchlets minutely puberulous ; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 
inflorescence greyish puberulous, panicled at the end of the branches, 
€ bracts short, ovate, acute; perianth velvety outside ; nuts 
robust fruiting rachis, explanate-concave, greyish velvety (especially 
outside), free or rarely the one or other of the abortive fruits adnate 
to their base, the scales densely imbricate, small, broad, mucronate, 
‘appressed and appearing rather indistinct. 
Has.—Ava hills,—Fl, Fr. Nov. 
<< 4& Bancana, Scheff—An evergreen (?) tree (25—380+ 
10—15 +133) » the trunk usually crooked, the young branchlets 
indistinctly and minutely appressed puberulous ; leaves ovate to 
‘mapressed, pale ; flowers minute, sessile, forming shorter or longer 
Puberous spikes, often arranged into greyish puberous larger or 
Smaller panicles at the end of the branchlets ; male flowers globular, 
anys line across, puberulous ; perianth of the female flowers 
.Y & line in diameter, appressed-scaly, puberulous and often 
Sticky ; ovary puberulous, terminating into 3 strong tawny-pubes- 
cent styles, 3 
