Querciis] 



CVII. FAGACEiE 



631 



beneatli anastomosing near the edge. Cup shallow, edge thin, undulating, mucli wider 

 than nut, bracts distinct. Nut nearly globose, | in. diam. 



B. More than half the mature nut enclosed in the cup. 



26. Q. pachyphylla, Kiirz ; King Ann. ii. t. 38. Vern. Sungre Katus, 

 Nep. 



A large tree, 1. elliptic-lanceolate, long-acuminate, glabrous above, underside 

 pale, with minute stellate hairs, midrib and nerves glabrous, blade 5-8, pet. 

 i- in., sec. n. 8-10 pair, impressed above, arching and anastomosing under the 

 margin. Spikes sometimes androgynous. Cups l|-2 in. across, always con- 



FiG. 195.— Quercus j^achyphylla, Kurz. ^. 



fluent, forming large irregularly shaped masses, nuts glabrous shining, nearly 

 globose, almost entirely included. Var. frutlcosa^ Manipur, a shrub or small 

 tree, 1. smaller, upper portion of nuts free. 



Sikkim, 6-10,000 ft. common on the Singalila range. Manipur 8,000-9,500 ft. 27. 

 <J magnifica, sp. nova. Kachin hills east of Bhamo. Southern Shan States 5,200 ft., 



upperside shining, underside dull, sec. n. 10-12 pair, prominent. X^^r. on stout woody 

 spikes 3-7 in. long, clustered, but cups hardly confluent, cups enclosing | of the nut, 

 leaving a circular mouth open, walls woody, J in. thick, bracts thick, hard, triangular, 

 acuminate. Nut globose, lower half rough, ujjper half polished, pericarp woody, in 

 the upper half J, in the lower half J in. thick. Cotyledons thick fleshy, plano-convex. 

 Several other species have an unusually thick pericarp : Q. Mex and Fordiana^ Hemsl,, 

 of China, and Q. cornea, Lour., of China and Tonkin. These 3 species have lobed coty- 

 ledons, like the Walnut. The acorns mentioned under Q, Jenkinsiana, Benth., in Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. v. 618 also have a very thick-walled nut. They however belong to Sect, v., 

 the nut is entirely included in an ovoid involucre 2 in. long, tips of bracts large, 

 pyramidal. Q. pulchra, King Ann. ii, t. 81, Borneo, differs from 27 by the flat, not 

 shining top of the nut; Q. spicata, Smith, by smaller confluent cups, and the nut 

 adhering to the cup with its circular base only, pericarp ^V ii^- thick •, Q, pachyphylla,, 

 Kurz, has acorns as large but they are confluent, the base only of the nut Is rough, 

 while the greater part is polished, the pericarp in this portion being | in. thick. 



