888 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
c. Natives of Nepal, 
§x. Lanatea. Woolly or downy-leaved Oaks. 
Sect. Char. Leaves oval-oblong or lanceolate, serrated or dentated, but not 
sinuated or lobed; woolly beneath. Trees evergreen, natives of Nepal ; 
and only half-hardy in the climate of London. They may be propagated 
by cuttings, which root without much difficulty; and the plants require the 
protection of a wall. 
2 39. Q. wana’ta Smith. The woolly-leaved Nepal Oak. 
Identification. Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 27. 
Synonymes. Q.lanugindsa D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 57.; Q. Banja Ham. MSS. ; ? Q. oblongata 
D. Don,\.c.; ? Q. incana Royle Illust. p. 341. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1633. from the tree at Kew. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves elliptic-oblong, sharply serrated, coriaceous ; densely 
woolly beneath. Fruit in axillary solitary spikes. Calyx scaly, without 
prickles. (Smith.) A large evergreen tree. Upper Nepal, on mountains. 
Height 60 ft. to 80 ft.; in England a half-hardy shrub. Introd. in 1818. 
Flowers greenish white; May. Acorns occasionally produced. 
In its native country this is a tree of 
vast dimensions, with a scaly bark, and 
rigid, brown, warty branches, clothed, 
when young, with dense white down ; 
but in England it has not yet been seen 
above 10 ft. high, and it requires to 
attain this height the protection of a 
wall. In the Hackney arboretum, and 
in that at Flitwick, plants of this spe- 
cies have stood out, without any pro- 
tection, in the open garden for several 
years, but they are annually killed down 
within a short distance of the ground ; nevertheless, in Messrs. Loddiges’s 
nursery, plants in pots have borne acorns. 
1633. Q. Janata. 
2 # 40. Q. annuLa‘ta Smith. The ring-cupped Oak. 
Identification. Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No, 22. 
Synonymes. @.Phullata Ham. MSS.,D Don Prod. 
Fl. Nep. p. 57.; ?Q. Kamrodpz? D. Don, l.c.; Q. 
glatica Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836; ?Q glatica Thunbd.; 
? Q. acuminata Hort. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1634. from a living specimen. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
pointed ; dentately serrated, except to- 
wards the base; somewhat glaucous and 
downy beneath. Fruit spiked. Nut 
oblong. Calyx furrowed concentrically. 
(Smith.) A large evergreen tree. Nepal, 
in various places. Height 50 ft. to 60 ft.; 
in England a half-hardy shrub. Intro- 
duced in 1822. 
Leaves evergreen, rigid, somewhat silky 
beneath, the young ones very silky. Stipules 
linear, hairy, longer than the footstalks, 
deciduous. Male flowers in pendulous, 
hairy, yellowish, shortish spikes, springing 
from the buds below the leaves. There are 
specimens of this tree in the Botanic Gar- 
den at Kew, which are found to be deci- 
dedly hardier than the plants of Q. lanata 
in the same garden. 1674. @. annulate. 
