PLATE XX. 
QUERCUS LAMELLOSA, wai. 
Nat. Ord. CupuLirera. 
Arbor excelsa, trunco 3—5 ped. diametro stricto erecto superne ramoso, coma oblonga, ramis mediocribus, ramulis velutino- 
tomentosis, foliis amplis coriaceis breve petiolatis elliptico-ovatis lanccolatisve acuminatis grosse argute subspinuloso- 
serratis multinerviis superne lete viridibus subtus argenteis glaucisve, inflorescentia mascula ignota decidua, 
foeminea brevi pauciflora spicata, stigmatibus 8 capitatis vix exsertis, involucris maximis subglobosis crassis coriaceis 
-lamellosis lamellis concentricis 10-16 sericeis marginibus fimbriato-ciliatis, superioribus 
incurvis glandem arcte 
cingentibus, glande late ovato-oblonga apice sericea, embryone striato. - 
Has. In Himalaya centrali et orientali temperata, alt. 5-8000 ped.: Nipal, Sikkim, et Bhotan. 77. vere ; fr. Nov. 
The present is one of the commonest trees about Dorjiling, and is certainly by far the noblest species of 
Oak known, whether for the size of the foliage or acorns, their texture and colour, or the imposing appear- 
ance of the tree, which has a tall, straight, solid trunk, forty to sixty feet high, and an oblong crown as 
much above it. The leaves are hardly persistent during the winter, though the tree is at no time destitute 
of foliage: the wood is indifferent. As with our common European forest trees, the fruit is produced. in 
much greater abundance in some seasons than at others ; in the winter of 1848-49 it was so abundant that 
it was dangerous to ride along the roads near Dorjiling, the hard rownd acorns causing the horses to 
stumble. Most of these decayed where they fell, nor did any that I 
cotyledons are very fleshy, 
sent to England germinate, for the 
and the plumule sprouts as soon as the acorns are exposed to the heat of the 
plains. This is, indeed, the case with most of the Indian Oaks, of which there are about thirty species, 
very few of which have been introduced into this country. 
Puate XX. Fig. 1. Young acorns. 2. An old acorn, cut vertically. 8. Gland. 4. Seed. 
cotyledons :—all of the natural size. 
5. Transverse section of 
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pe. 
