1936 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



above, and yellowish beneath. The Mowers are disposed In two ov three cottony spikes at the ter- 

 mination m the branches. 



cesttrsM Lour. Coch., 8. p. 578., Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 487., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 153., Smith in 

 Rees'a CycL, No. 10. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, pointed, Incurved, entire. Calyx lax, very short, 

 furrowed concentrically. [WML) A large tree, a native of the lofty forests of Cochin-China ; with 

 ascending branches, and comparatively few leaves, which are stalked, and smooth on both sides. 

 [he acorns are obtong.ovate, and borne on peduncles; the nuts are smooth, red, pointed; and the cups 

 ■hod and l.i\, marked externally with several parallel circular furrows. 



O ackta Thunb, Jap., 17&, Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 429., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 154., Smith in Ilces's 

 CycL, No. 17., has the leaves oblong, entire, and terminating in a sharp cuspidate point j rounded 

 .it the base ; glabrous above, but downy beneath when young. The branches of this oak are knotty, 

 smooth, except near their extremities, which are downy. The under sides of the leaves are, also, 

 COl ered with a ferruginous down, when young, as are the" spikes Of flowers. A native of Japan. 



rail Thunb. Jap, 176.. Willd. Sp. PL, 1. p. 431.. N. Du Ham., 7. p. 155., Smith in Kecs's 

 CycL, No 25., has the leaves oblong, serrated, velvety, and downy beneath, when young, with parallel 

 veins. The trunk of this oak is divided into alternate, and rather knotty, branches, which are of a 

 rej lb colour, with white spots. Found on the mountains of Japan. 



•o-j Thunb. Jap., 175., Banks Ic, Kaempf, t. 17., Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 427., N. Du Ham., 7. 

 p. L59., Recall CycL, No. SI. ; Kas do Ki, Kcempf. Amcen., p. 816. ; has the leaves obovate, pointed, 

 serrated towards the extremity, and glaucous beneath. The nuts are roundish and pointed; and 

 the calyx, which is shallow, Is marked with concentric lines. Ka?inpfer calls this oak an " ilex, with 

 short thick acorns, of which there are two kinds." Thunberg found it near Nagasaki, in Japan. He 

 describes it as ■ very large tree, with spreading branches, somewhat resembling the ilex, or cork tree ; 

 but with very large, broad, pointed leaves, smooth above, and very glaucous or mealy, and feather- 

 nerved beneath. Smith supposes it to he the same as his Q.annulata, Q. Phullhta Don. (See p. 1922.) 



O. cuspniata Thunb. Jap., 176., Willd. Sp. PL, p. 430., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 159., Smith in Rees's 

 CycL, No. 24. ; Sni, vulgb Ssi no Ki, Kmmpf. Amcen., 816. Leaves ovate, pointed, serrated, smooth. 

 Calyx prickly. {Thunb.) Kamipfer calls tills " Fagus folio /'"raxini," a beech, or beech-like oak, with 

 the leaves of an ash : but Thunberg describes it as only differing from Q. coceffera in its leaves being 

 cuspidate, and their teeth not spiny. The leaves are small, and very glabrous; and the acorns, 

 which are as large as a common walnut, have bristly cups. A native of Japan. 



Q. dcnt&ta Thunb. Jap , 177., Willi Sp. PI., 4. p. 452., N. Du Ham., 7. p. 180., Rees's CycL, 

 No. 26. ; Koku, Ka»/pf. Avian., 816. Leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, deeply toothed ; downy beneath. 

 [Tktmb.) A tree, with thick, erect, furrowed, knotty branches ; cottony at the summit of the tree. 

 The leaves are produced in tufts at the extremity of the branches, on very short petioles: they are 

 soft to the touch, very lax and pliable, velvety on the upper surface, and covered with a very white 

 cottony down beneath. Ka?mpfer calls this tree the white ilex, and says that the wood is also 

 white. Thunberg states that it is a native of the Ii ills of Japan. 



The oaks of China have been enumerated, as far as they are known, in p. 177. The following have 

 been d escr i bed : — 



o. c/iincrisis Punge Mem. Acad. Scicn. Petersb., 2. p. 135. Leaves ovate-oblong, elongated, acumi- 

 nated, mucronato-serrate ; hoary beneath. Cups axillary, twin. Scales lanceolate, hoary ; exterior 

 ones squarrose, lunger than the globose nut. A tree, a native of mountainous places in China; flower- 

 ing in April, and ripening its fruit the following year. It has exactly the habit and leaves of 

 Cutanea v.'sca, and is probably the C. chiiu'nsis of Sprengel, with 1-seedcd fruit. C. vesca is a very 

 common tree in the north of China, with fruit always 2 — 3-seeded, and very like thoseof Europe; and 

 the Chinese deny that there is any other species. 



Q. uhuvuta Punge Mem. Acad. Scien. Petersb., 2. p. 136. Leaves obovate, nearly sessile, thickly 

 Miniated ; lobes round, quite entire, covered with rough dots above; tomentose beneath, as are the 

 young branches. Fruit terminal, aggregate, sessile. Outer scales of the cup ovate-oblong, blunt, 

 silky ; inner ones elongated, linear, acute, bent back, longer than the roundish nut. A tree, a native 

 of mountainous places near Pekin ; flowering in March and April. 15 unge observed a third species, 

 on the mountains in Pan-Schan, very similar to Q. moiigolica Fisch. (see p. 1932); but nothing 

 < crt un.caii be determined respecting it, from the imperfection of the specimens. 



A pp. vii. Oaks of Java, Sumatra, and the Molucca Isles, not yet 



introduced, 



Q. nmddica Plume Fl. Jav., t. 2. and 3. ; and our fl^s. 1833. and 1834. The Sunda Oak. Leaves 

 • lliptic, acuminate; narrowed towards the base ; glabrous above, somewhat glaucous beneath ; veins 



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•rRb. don < '■ n solitary, a tree, attaining the height of SO ft. and upwards, with 



l-ark It [uenf in Mm woods of Western Java, Hi low grounds, and on tin 



