Quercus. | CXL. CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) 601 
toothed or lobed, penninerved. Flowers monoecious, small or minute, 
spicate; male in pendulous or erect spikes; bracts small; female erect. 
Mate rr. Perianth campanulate, 4—7-lobed or -partite. Stamens indefinite, 
6-12; filaments slender; anther-cells contiguous. Pistillode hairy or 0. 
Fem. FL. enclosed in imbricate bracts. Perianth-tube adnate to the ovary, 
limb very minute lobed or toothed. Staminodes minute or 0. Ovary after 
fecundation more or less perfectly 3- rarely 4-5-celled; styles 3-5, short ; 
ovules 2 in each cell. Wut ovoid globose or depressed, 1-celled, seated in 
or enclosed in, and attached by a broad base or by all its surface to an 
involucre of imbricate hardened bracts. Seeds 1 or 2, testa membranous ; 
cotyledons plano-convex, thick, fleshy, smooth grooved lobed or ruminate ; 
radicle minute.—Species about 300, temperate and tropical; absent in S. 
panerica, Tropical and S. Africa, the Deccan Peninsula, Australia and the 
acific. 
The following prodromus of the Indian Oaks is avery imperfect one. It is founded 
on a systematic list with references and synonyms of the Indo-Malayan species kindly 
sent me by Dr. King, and which embodies his ideas of the limitation of the species 
as they will appear in the illustrated Monograph which he is preparing, and which 
will doubtless supplement the shortcomings of this work, The genus is one of excep- 
tional difficulty, from the variability of the foliage, and in the size and form of the 
involucre of the fruit and of the nut itself, and I doubt the possibility of identifying 
most of the species in many of these states by descriptions alone. | . 
Since the above lines were written Dr. King has visited England, bringing his 
mss. account of the Oaks with him. This he has generously allowed me to collate 
with my descriptions to the great advantage of the latter. 
Secr. I. Lerwosatanus, Endl.—Male spikes simple, lax-fld., pendulous, 
deciduous. Fruit subsessile, on short spikes; bracts of cup imbricate, tips 
ree. Leaves usually toothed serrate or lobed. 
1. Q. Semecarpifolia, Smith in Rees Cyclop. xxix. No. 20; leaves 
short-petioled elliptic or oblong entire or spinous-toothed obtuse or pungent, 
base cordate or rounded, cup hemispheric covering the base rarely more of 
the oblong or globose nut, bracts appressed acute tips often membranous. 
DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 15; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 56, t. 174; Cat. 2776 ; 
Brand. For, Fl. 479, t. 64; Gamble Man. 382; Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 119. 
. s tusifolia & Cassura, Don Prodr. 56, 57; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. 
ert. iv. 219, 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan and Munnipore, alt. 6-12,000 ft. 
—Disrriz, Affghanistan. . 
small or large subevergreen gregarious tree, 30-80 ft., rarely 80-100 ft., with 
trunk 12-18 ft, in girth. Leaves 2-6 by 1-4 in., coriaceous, glabrous-pubescent 
or young stellate-pubescent ; nerves 6-8 pairs, forked ; petiole 0-1 in. Male spikes 
crowded, softly pubescent ; sepals obtuse, ciliate; stamens 8-18, glabrous. Fem. 
spikes short ; styles long, recurved. Cups solitary, }-1 in. diam., margin thin; 
nut globose, rarely ovoid, 1 in. diam., glabrous, umbo large.—Often confounded with 
: 4lex, from which the forked nerves distinguish it. 
1 2. Q. serrata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 176; leaves long-petioled oblong- 
snceolate acute or acuminate spinulose-toothed many-nerved, cup half 
rvcting the globose or oblong nut, bracts free long thick coriaceous 
meurved. Brand. For. Fl. 486; Gamble Man. 384. Q. serrata, var. 
-OXburghii 4. DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 57; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. 
Gl. Q: polyantha, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 2771. Q. Roxburghii, Endl. 
en. PL, Suppl. iv. 28 
