1922

ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

Nut oblong. Calyx furrowed concen-trically. ( Smith and Don.) “ Gathered byDr, Buchanan (who afterwards took thename of Hamilton), at various places inUpper Nepal, bearing fruit, in December,

1802. A very large tree, whose wood isexcellent. The branches, 2 or 3 together,smooth. Leaves evergreen, rigid, exactlylike those of Q. glauca TDmb., but some-what silky beneath, and less glaucous;the young ones very silky. Stipules linear, hairy, longer than the footstalks,deciduous. Male flowers in pendulous,hairy, yellowish, shortish spikes, spring-ing from the buds below the leaves,whose scales are imbricated in 5 rows.

Female, from 3 to 6, in solitary, axil-lary, upright, stalked, smooth spikes,about the length of the footstalks. Calyxof the female flowers globose, smallerthan hempseed; composed of severalconcentric imbricated layers, of whichthe outermost is smooth and notched, the rest downy and entire. Germenglobose. Style very short and thick. Stigmas 3, obtuse. Acorns quite sessileon the common flower stalk. Cup rather smaller than that of our Britishoaks; entire and even at the edge; composed of 7 or 8 concentric, annular,imbricated, crenate scales, externally silky. Nut ovate, acute, smooth, andeven, twice as long as the cup. The Parbutties call this tree Phullaat; theNawars, Gushi , or Paca stringali. .We find great reason to think it may be, asDr. Buchanan suspected, the same species with Thunberg’s Q. glauca. Theleaves of his specimen show a slight degree of pubescence about the veins,but have not the minute silkiness of ours.” ( Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia.)Professor Don has given us the same information respecting Q. Kamrodpii(which he is now disposed to refer to Q. annulata) as he did respecting thereferring of Q. oblongata to Q. lanata. In both cases, his specimens wereimperfect. He had named Q. Kamrodpii in honour of “ Kamroop, or, moreproperly, Kamrup, a Brahmin, and a zealous collector for Dr. Wallich inGurwhal, or Garnwhal, a country situated to the north-west of Nepal .”There are plants of this species 10 ft. high, against a wall in the Horticul-tural Society’s Gardens, and also in the front of a stove at Kew; and,under the name of Q. glauca, at Messrs. Loddiges’s. Mr. Smith of Kewinforms us that it is decidedly hardier than Q. lanata.

App. i. Oaks in British Gardens, not referable, with certainty,to any of the above Sections.if 40. Q. Tu'rner/ Willd. Turner’s Oak.

Identification. Willd. En urn., 975.; Baumz., p. 339.

Synonymies. Q. hybrids ffort.; Chene de Turner, Fr. ,* Turnersche 'Eiche, 'Ger.

Engravings. Willd. Baumz., t. 3. f. 2. ; and our/%. 1806., from a specimen taken from the tree nithe Horticultural Society’s Garden.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves oblong, mucronate, dentate; glabrous on both sides;somewhat wedge-shaped at the base. Branchlets hairy. (Willd.) A tree,growing to the height of 40 ft. or 50 ft. in 40 years, and retaining its foliagetill April or May, like the new Lucombe oaks. It is stated in Willdenow sBaumzucht to be a native of Thibet ; but we have ascertained from Messrs.Loddiges that it is a hybrid, which was raised about 1795, or before, byMr. Spencer Turner, in the Holloway Down Nursery, Essex, which wasfounded by him about 1787, and which now no longer exists; and that. theplant at Berlin, which is kept in the conservatory there, was sent to Will-