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wide, lanceolate, the margin, for the greater part of its length, sharply and deeply 
toothed, terminating in a long point, dark green above, light green beneath, a 
little twisted. The buds are round, downy, brown. 
Quercjus bambusifolia. —The habit of this tree is densely bushy, the branches 
erect and spreading, some becoming deflexed, slender, virgate. The young shoots 
QuercuS:— 7, salicifolia; 8, setifera. 
are angular, glabrous, and olive-coloured. The leaves are about 4 in. long, in. 
wide, exactly lanceolate, serrulate with apiculate teeth, dark shining green above, 
glaucous beneath, tapering at the base into a yellowish petiole about half an inch 
long. The leaf-buds are minute, ovoid, acute, with ovate glabrous scales. Of 
this Oak, Messrs. Veitch possess a fine specimen, some 12 ft. high, with elegant, 
somewhat drooping foliage, resembling that of a narrow-leaved Willow, but of a 
