3 2 CrcLOBALANOPSIS.
A species allied to Q. mespilifoUa and Edferiana, and moro distantly to semisermta.
PLATE 2òk.— Q. Brandisiana, Kurz. 1, twig with young female spikes; 2, spike of
half-ripe aconis ; 3, nearly ripe acora : of natural size.
15. QUEECDS LINEATA, Bl. Bijdr. 523 {not of Miq.).
Young branches puberulous (tomentose in var. 4), lenticellatc. Young leaves densely
adpressed fulvous-sericeous, adult thinly coriaceous, from lancenlate to ovate or oblonglanceolate,
abruptly and shortly caudate-acuminate, entire or undulate towards the apes
(serrate in some of the vai-ieties); upper surface smooth, shining; lower glaucous,
puberulous or minutely tomentose; main nerves 13 to 17 pairs, leaving the midrib at an
acute angle and running nearly straight to the mai-gin, slightly prominent on the ui>per,
bold and prominent on the lower surface; length of blade 3 to 4'o in., breadth 1-25 to
I'D in.; petiole '3 in. to '5 in. 3iale spikes in small clusters, shorter than the leaves,
fulvous, sericeous; flowers glomerulate; perianth of 4 pieces; stamens 4; anthers broad.
Female spikes on different trees, solitary, axillary, shorter than the leaves, few-ilowered,
sericeous; flowers solitary; stigmas sub-capitate. Tounff cuptdes sessile, obovoid; the apex
truncate, densely fulvous-tomentose; lamellie from 5 to 7, broad; their edges (especially
those of the lower two) denticulate or crenate. Jiipe ciipule cup-shaped or saucer-shaped,
from -6 in. to 1-2 in. in diameter. Bipe glans hemispheric, more or less depressed,
apiculate, smooth, shining; the base trancate, from -o in. to 1 in. in diameter.— Blume Fl.
Jav. Caput 32. t. 19; Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 302; 3Iiq. Fl. Lid. Bat. i. 855; Ann. Mus. Liigd.
Bat. i, 114; DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 98; Eook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 605; Wcjizig in Jahrb. JBot.
Gart. Berl. iv. 232.-6. pohjneura, Miq. PI. Jungh. i. 11.—o x y r h j n c h a , Miq. Fl. Ind.
Bat. Suppl. i. 347; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 113.
Blume described and figured his Q. lineata, and Miquel his two species polyneura and
oxyrhjncha, without having seen either male spikes or ripe fruit, and no specimens with
these parts are to be found in the collections at Leiden and Utrecht, where the types
of Blume'a and Miquel's species are deposited. Blume describes the leaves of lineata as
serrulatis integerrimisve" and in his plate he figures an entire-leaved form with young
fruit attached, and a form with leaves serrulate towards the apex (fig. 1), but without
fruit. He does not, however, refer to this fig. 1 in his text, and his specimens at
Leiden have all entire leaves. I believe that this fig. 1 in reality belongs to his Q.
tvrUnaia which be figures on the preceding plate, and which I reduce as a variety of
lineata. But although Blume's description and type specimens aro so far incomplete, a
comparison of them with the descriptions and type specimens reduced bL4ow convinces
me that Dr. "Wenzig (I.e.) is right in regarding them as only varieties of Q. lineata, Bl.
I have made a careful examination of the extensive suite of specimens brought together
in the Calcutta Herbarium, and a comparison of these with the materials at Kew, the
British Museum, Utrecht, Geneva, and Florence not only confirms me in this opinion,
but leads me to believe that Q. glauca and Q. lineata with their varieties are really but
forms of one widely-distributed species which is found from Japan to Java, and runs
westward along the Himalaya as far as Hazara. To unite these two would, however,
cause much unsettlement of nomenclature, which it is perhaps for the present desu-able to
avoid. The only character on which reliance may be placed in separating glauca from
lineata is in my opinion the shape of' the glans. In glauca this is narrowly cylindric or
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ovoid-conic, much longer than broad; whereas in lineata it is hemispheric, usually depressed,
and often broader than long. The species described as Q. lineata by Miquel (Fl. Jungh.
10) is, as he himself pointed out {Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 117), Q, Junghuknii, Miq.='
Q. aeuminatissima, DC. I do not see why Q. Philippmsis, DC,, {Cuming, No. 809) should
not be reduced here. And I think Q. Kamroopii, Don. [Prod. Fl. JSiep. 57), is probably
one of the forms of this.
The varieties are as follow:—
VAR. 1. TYPICAL LINEATA, Z.C.
Leaves entire.
Western Java, at altitudes of 5,000 to 6,000 iQ&t,—Blume, Teysmann, Junghvlm.
VAR. 2. MERKUSII, Wenzig in Jahrh. Bot, Gart. Beri. iv. 232 fescl. syn. Horsfieldii,
Miq.). Leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrulate towai-ds the acuminate
apex; c-upule turbinate.-Q. turlinata, Bl. (not of Roxb. or Liebm.)
Bijdr. 523; Fl. Jav. Cupul. 31. t. 18; Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 302; Miq.
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 856 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 114 fexcl. syn. Eorsfieldii,
Miq.); DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 98.—M e r k u s i i ^ Endl. Gen. PI. Suppl. 4.
pt. 2. 28.
Java, Bangka ; at high elevations.
This differs from typical lineata chiefly in its serrate 1
VAR. 3. OSYODON, Wenzig I.e. 232.
oblong-lanceolate, strongly spinose-serrate except at the base; under surface
glaucous; ripe cupules hemispheric, thin; 7 in. in diameter and -4 in. deep; lamella
about 7, sub-entii-e, minutely tomentose. Glans hemispheric, the base truncate, smooth,
•6 in. in diameter and the same in height .—o x y o d o n , Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat.
i. 114; DC. Prod. I.e. fl8.
Khasia, at elevations of 3,000 to 5,000 feet,—(Jrz^^A, No. 4457 [Kew Dist.), Booker,
Mann, Clarke, No. 40358; Naga Hills,—PrajK. '
VAS. 4. LOBBI, Wenzig I.e. 232.
Young branches, young cupules, and under surfaces of the leaves (even when adult)
minutely fulvous-tomentose; secondary nerves transverse, very prominent; otherwise as
in var. oxyodon.
Khasia Hills, at elevations of about 5,000 Hooker, Mann, and others. I'his
variety is confined to the Khasia Hills.
VAK. 5. GiiiFFiTHir, King in Hook fil Fl. B. Ind. Lo.
Leaves sub-entire, much acuminate; otherwise as in oxrjodon.
Khasia -Griffith, Kos. 4454, 4480, 4485; Mann, No. 593 : at elevations of 3,000
lect. '
VÌE. 6. TAOMBOBIAM, Wenàg le. 232,
Leaves ovate-hnceolate ; serrnlalo in the upper Lalf, usually glaucous beneath; rips
cupulo saucer-shaped; the lamellaj minutely tomentose, much crenate, 1 to 1-2 in. m
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