. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . s covered withsmall glands. {Lindl. MSS.) A native of Tavoy,on the shore of Tenasserim ; and bearing fruitin October. Branches slender, cylindrica


. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . s covered withsmall glands. {Lindl. MSS.) A native of Tavoy,on the shore of Tenasserim ; and bearing fruitin October. Branches slender, cylindrical, denselymarked, with innumerable callous dots ; yellow,shining, and glabrous. Buds small, roundish,villous. Leaves about 4 in. long, approximatetowards the point of the branchlets. Inflores-cence not seen. Fruit axillary, solitary, almostsessile. {IVatl. Pi. As. Rar., t. 150.) Q. lamellosa Smith in Reess Cycl., No. 23.,Wall. PI. , t. 149, and omjig. ; Q. im-bricata Ha7n. MSS., D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. elliptic or ovate, serrated, flat, glabrous,acute, on long footstalks; obtuse at the base;glaucous beneath ; the veins continued to the ser-ratures; veinlets raised. Cups solitary, sessile,depressed, downy; composed of scales formingloosely imbricated, undulated, concentric layers,which surround the nut. Nut tomentose, bossed,depressed, shorter than the cup. {Lindl. MSS.) Anative of the mountains of Nepal; ripening its. CHAP. CV. corylace^e. quercus. 1935


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