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NEW JAPANESE EVERGREEN OAKS. 
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green stripes round the nerves, glaucous beneath ; petiole long; the buds sharp 
and green.— Q. glauca Kvrikasi nigra , the branches brown with white stripes ; the 
leaves 3 to 5 in. long, 2 in. wide, ovate, sharply toothed from the middle to the 
apex, light green above, slightly downy beneath, the young leaves of a shining 
copper-colour. The following varieties are also known :— Q. glauca stenophylla , 
with leaves narrower than in the type; and Q. glauca fasciata , in which the 
leaves are striped with white. 
Quercus gilva, of Blume.—This species is of a loose habit, many-branclied, the 
young shoots hairy. The leaves are 5 in. long, l£in. wide, lanceolate-oblong, 
the margins for nearly two-thirds of their length sharply and deeply toothed, the 
base acute, of a dark green colour and glabrous above, glaucous beneath ; and the 
petiole is browmish. 
Quercus acuta albo-nervis, of Siebold.—In this the habit is bushy; the 
branches thick and short, of a brownish colour ; and the leaves from 4 in. to G in. 
long, 1 in, to 1|- in, wide, elliptic lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, the margin 
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