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CVII. FAGACEiE 



[Qiiercus 



B* Half the mature nut enclosed in the cup. 



42. Q. Brandisiana, Kurz ; King Ann. II. t. 25 A. Shan hills, Upper Burma. Hills 

 east of Toungoo, in hill Eng forest. Donat range 2-5,000 ft., Tenasserim. A 



Pig. 193. — Quercus semiserrata, Eoxb. J. 



middle-sized evergreen tree, young shoots thinly pubescent, 1. rigidly coriaceous, 

 glabrous when mature, from elliptic to obovate, undulate, or with a few shallow 

 serratures, blade 4-7, pet. 1-lJ in. long, see. n. straight, 10--12 pair, midrib, sec. n. 

 and often tert. n. prominent on the under and impressed on the upperside. Fr. on 

 spikes 2-3 in. long, cup softly velvety within and without, shallow, J-| in. across, nut 

 nearly globose, apiculate. 13. Q. velutiaa, Lindl. Ohittagong hill tracts. Pegu, fre- 

 queUt in Eng forest. A large tree, young shoots rusty -tomentose, 1. serrulate near 

 apex,rnearly glabrous, thin, lanceolate, blade 5-8, pet. 4 in., sec. n. slender curved, 10- 

 14 pair. Cup densely tomentose, IJ in. across, lamellae crenate, nut depressed, velvety. 

 14. Q. xanthoclada, Brake in Journal de Botanique 1890, 149, t. iii. ^g, 1. Wuntho 

 district, Upper Burma, 1,500 ft. (Dowaing, Burm,).— Tonkin. A large tree, branchlets, 

 petioles and axillary buds tawny-tomentose. L. coriaceous, minutely serrate near 

 the apes, elliptic, blade 4-^, pet. slender 1 in. long, upperside glabrous, underside 

 glaucous with scattered thin hairs, sec. n. lO-lS pair. Cup densely fulvous-velvety, 

 l-lj in. across. 15. Q. Helferiana, A. DO — King Ann. II. t. 25 B. Manipur. Buby 

 Mines and other hills of Upper Burma east of the Irawadi, also hills east of foungoo 

 and on headwaters of Tunzalin 3-5,000 ft. A large tree, stunted in exposed situa- 

 tions, branchlets and underside of leaves densely tawny-tomentose, 1. coriaceous, 

 glabrous above, except midrib, sec. n. 10-14 pair, impressed above, prominent be- 

 neath. Er. on spikes 2 in. long, peduncle stout, cup almost flat, the edge incurved^ 

 1 in. across, lamellae 8, very regular, denticulate, nut velvety, depressed, hemi- 

 spheric. This might perhaps be included under A. 



0. More than half the nut enclosed in the cup. 



