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Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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626 CYII. FAGACEiE (Quercus on tlie upper Yunzalin at about 3,000 ft. PL Oct.-Marcli. AVood similar to that of Quercus sessiliflora. Bemai-kable galls on the branches, consisting of densely packed subulate scales, up to 1^ in. long. Yar. ohionga, Khasi and Naga hills, has nearly entire 1. Q. aliena, Blume, of Japan and several other sp. of Japan and China will probably eventually be united with this sp. 4. Q. incana, Eoxb.; King Ann. ii. t. 20; CoUett Simla M. 475, fig. 154. Vern. Ehin, Haz.; Shlddar, Kashm.; Ban^ Banj^ Hind. A middle-sized or large evergreen gregarious tree, foliage grey, brancliletSy petioles and underside of 1. white-tomentose. L. coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate^ serrate, teeth sharp, mucronate, base acute, blade 3-6, pet. h in., stipules linear, scarious, \ in. long, early caducous. Catkins hairy, bracts obtuse, scarious, perianth of 4-5 short unequal segments, anthers glabrous. Fr. mostly solitary, ripe nuts ovoid-conical, 1 in. long, half enclosed in the rough woody cup. Outer North-West Himalaya, eastwards as far as Nepal, 4-8,000 ft., occasionally lower (Mothronwala swamp, in the Dun 1,900 ft.). Generally associated with JRhododendron. arhoretim and Andromeda, The Beodar, often self-sown, readily comes up under its shade. Leaves renewed in March and April, the young foliage coming out with a lilac and purple tinge, FL about the same time, but occasionally irregularities occur; thus at Simla the Ban flowered abundantly in July 1902. Fr. in autumn, 15-17 months after fl. Coppices freely. Wood splits and warps, but makes excellent fuel, bark rich in tannin. 5 Q.lanuginosa, Don; King Ann. ii. t, 19. Kumaon,4-8,000 ft.^ gregarious in patches, often associated with Q.-iwcawct. Nepal. Bhutan. Yqvxi. jRanj^ Miafij, Ral hmij^ Ku- maon ; Banga^ Nep. A large evergreen tree, branchlets and under- side of 1. densely ,^ clothed with rufous or p tawny wool. L. cori- aceous, upper surface rugose, midrib often hairy, serratures dis- tant, blade 4-8, pet. J-l in. long. Fr. solitary or in short spikes, cup ^ in, across, scales thin, appressed, nut woolly with a short cyhndric umbo. B. Leaves rous when mature. 6. Q. Thunb.; ii. t. 16. A middle- sized straight-stem- med deciduous tree^ annual rings con- spicuous by numer- ous veiy lai*ge pores in the spring wood^ concentric bands of wood - parenchyma obscure. Youngest shoots and young L clothed with soft hairs, 1. thinly cori- aceous, glabrous when mature, shin- ing, lanceolate or elliptic - lanceolate^ Fig. 192.—Quercus serrata,' Thunb. 4. "blade 5-7, pet. 1-1;
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glab- serrata. King Ann,

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