602 CXL. CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) ` [ Quercus. 
EASTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Nepal, Wallich, to Sikkim, alt. 
5-6000 ft., Bhotan. MUNNIPORE and the KHasrA Hits, alt. 3-5500 ft.— 
Distris. Shan Hills, China, Japan. . 
A deciduous tree of moderate size. Leaves 4-6 in., coriaceous, glabrous or with 
tufts of hairs in the nerve axils, young tawny tomentose beneath ; nerves 14-16 
pairs, ending in the often long slender teeth; petiole 1-2 in. Male spikes long, 
tomentose ; stems glabrous. Fem. spikes short; fl. usually clustered; style slender ; 
cups 1-1} in. diam., at first enclosing the glabrous nut, which is 3-$ in. long.— The 
Indian plant differs slightly from the Japanese in the rather broader bracts an 
stipules. 
3. Q. dilatata, Lindi. in Wall. Cat. 2785; leaves short-petioled 
glabrous oblong-lanceolate entire or spinous-serrate, nerves forked and 
reticulate, cup hemispheric half enclosing the ovoid nut, bracts lanceolate 
appressed. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 41 ; Royle Ill. 346, and Q. dealbata, t. 84, 
f. 2; Brand. For. Fl. 482; Gamble Man. 383; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. 
Gart. Berl. v. 220. Q. floribunda, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 2773. 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 4500-9000 ft. 
—Disrris. Affghanistan (ascending to 10,000 ft. ). 
A large subevergreen gregarious tree, 50-60 ft., but often 80-100 ft. ; trunk 
attaining 20 ft. girth; shoots flocculent. Leaves 2-3 in., coriaceous, shining, base 
rounded or cordate; nerves 8-12 pairs; petiolelin. Male spikes crowded, 1-13 m. 
Fem, spikes short; fl. solitary; styles 3-5, linear-clavate. Cup ł in. diam., 
tomentose; nut $ in. long. 
4. Q. Ilex, Linn. Sp. Pl. 995; leaves subsessile very coriaceous elliptic 
oblong or orbicular entire or spinous-toothed base cuneate rounded or 
cordate, softly and thickly tomentose or very pubescent beneath or at 
length glabrous, nerves subsimple, cup campanulate obconic or turbinate at 
first nearly enclosing the cylindric nut, bracts appressed tips narrow. 
A.DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 39; Brand. For. Fl. 480; Gamble Man. 383; Borss. 
Fl. Orient. v. 1167; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xii. t. 642; Kotschy Eichen, 
t. 38. Q. Baloot, Grif. Itin. Not. 398; A. DC.l.c.; Boiss. l. c. 1168; 
Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 200. 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; in the drier ranges from Kumaon west- 
wards, alt. 3000-8500 ft.—DrsrRis. Affghanistan, and from Syria westwards to the 
tlantic. 
An evergreen shrub or small tree, 40 ft., trunk attaining 7-8 ft. girth; shoots 
stellate-pubescent. Leaves 1-3 in., very coriaceous, young pubescent above, 
nerves 6-12 pairs, not strong; petiole 2-1 in. Male spikes fascicled, stellately- 
pubescent, Fem. spikes short, usually slender, flexuous, with 1 or more flowers at 
the flexures ; styles 3-5, linear-clavate, surrounded by the perianth-limb. Cup very 
thick, hoary; nut l-l} in. tip conical.—The specific identity of the Himalayan. 
Q. Baloot, Griffith, with the Mediterranean Q. Ilex, has been carefully studied by 
Thomson, Brandis and King, and settled affirmatively. The real or suppo 
characters for the Indian plant were the pubescence of the leaves, and the smallness 
and flatness of stellate hairs which have a more distinct centre and shorter more 
slender rays. 
5. Q. Griffithii, Hook. f. & Thoms. in A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 14; leaves 
large subsessile obovate-oblong or oblanceolate acute base cordate round? 
or acute entire or coarsely sinuate toothed or serrate pale and stellate To 
pubescent or -tomentose or smooth and glaucous'beneath, cup small sessi i 
hemispheric embracing half the ovoid-oblong nut, bracts appressed uppe 
acute. Gamble Man. 381; Mig. Ann. Mus. i. 104; Wenzig n Jahrb. Bot. 
Gart. Berl. iv. 218. 
