Quercus. | AMENTACER. 489 
down, the nerves straight, impressed on the upper side, strong, but 
thin on the under side, and, like the transverse veination, very con- 
spicuous ; fruiting peduncle about an inch long and few-fruited, or 
rarely up to 24 in. long, tawny-tomentose; nuts while unripe 
depressed, and more or less enclosed, minutely appressed-puberulous, 
in ripening exserted, ovoid, glabrous; cups greyish velvety, con- 
cave, about 4 in. in diameter, consisting of about 5-6 erose, con- 
centric, lamellate rings. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the hill Eng forests and drier hill forests of Marta- 
ban, at 1,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation.—Fr. March-April.—1.—SS.—Metam. 
Remarks.—Sapwood whitish. 
16. Q. xylocarpa, Kz.—Fruits only known, which are connate, 
by 2-3 into irregularly obovoid clusters 1-2 in. in diameter. Nuts 
only at the apex free, the rest adnate to the woody corky involucre, 
depressed-globular, smooth ; cups or involucres while young entirely 
enclosing the nut, finally opening circularly and exposing the apex 
of the nut, strongly and irregularly woody-muricate, glabrous, the 
tubercles (resp. scales) shortly conical, bluntish, about a line long, 
becoming smaller and obsolete towar in. 
Has.—Arracan, Yomah, east of Akyab, at 4,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation. 
JUGLANDACEL. 
Flowers unisexual, the males in axillary spikes or catkins, the 
females solitary or in terminal or axillary spikes or clusters. Males: 
perianth simple, irregularly 2-6-cleft, adnate to the entire or 
cut scale-like bracts. Stamens indefinite, sometimes 3 or more, in 
»), with a solitary, erect or pendulous ovule in each cell ; style 
short ; stigmas usually 2, rarely 4. Fruit a drupe, with a fleshy or 
A small order, of which only a few species occur also in Burma. 
The timber of all the members of this family is valuable. The bark 
