486 AMENTACE, [ Quercus. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the hill Eng forests and the drier hill-forests of 
the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo, at 3,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. 
March.—l.—SS.—Lat. Metam. 
8. Q. Thomsoni, Miq.—An evergreen middling-sized tree, all 
parts glabrous ; leaves from ovate-oblong and oblong to lanceolate, 
acuminate at both ends, on a petiole hardly 4-2 in. long, 4-6 in. 
long, entire, glossy above, beneath pale-coloured, the nerves thin, 
with rather an obsolete transverse net-veination ; inflorescence 
minutely greyish puberulous, the bracts minute ; perianth whitish- 
tomentose ; nuts up to 10 ln. in diameter, obovate-globular to 
greyish pubescence, the cups solitary or the abortive ones more or 
Tess adnate to the fertile ones, 5-8 lin. im diameter, expanded- 
coneave, the sterile ones while young brown and sticky-glossy, with 
the numerous imbricate scales adnate, the fertile ones grey1s 
velvety, with the broad small acute scales adnate or sometimes 
almost concentrically zonate. 
Has.—Chittagong. 
spicata, Sm.; Brand. For. Fl. 489.—Thit-kya.—An evel 
9. Q, spicata, | 
green tree (30—60 +10—30+4-—5), all parts glabrous ; leaves — 
very variable, from oblong and elliptieally oblong to obovate-oblong : 
and even lanceolate, often narrowed towards the obtuse or acute - 
ile with @ 
rounded or cordate base, 6 (in young shoots) 10-12 in. long, | 
long, glabrous, deciduous bract ; fruits more or less densely ae 3 a 
along the strong straight rachis and more frequently united PY 
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5 into clusters, rarely free or only the abortive cu adnate 4 
f 2 d the free. 
base of the fertile one ; nut variable in size, exserte from 
cups, half-immersed in the connate ones, ovoid, smooth, the cups 
5-8 lin. across, greyish-velvety, with thick, ovate-acute, imbric¢ 
scales which either turn more robust in a mature 
(especially in the connate ones) confluent so as to fo 
scaly rings. 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill-forests from Martaban down to Tenasserim 5 | : 
also Chittagong.—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. the following year.—1.—SS.=Metam- 
10. Q, Lindleyana, Wall.—An evergreen tree, the brant 3 
80 ie 
_ yelyety-tomentose; leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse and somew. | 
unequal at the narrowed base, on a strong shortly pubescent petio 
4-5 lin, long, acute or very shortly and abruptly acuminate, 
8 in. long, entire or waved towards the apex, thin-coriaceous, 
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