Quercus. ] CXL. CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) 603 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; at Mongpo, alt. 3500 ft., introduced by Clarke. KHASIA 
Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, -&c.; Munnipore, Watt, Clarke. ? BHOTAN, Booth. 
Burma, Brandis. 
A small or large deciduous tree. Leaves 6-10 by 2-5 in., smooth above and pale 
when dry; petiole 4-1 in. Male spikes 1-2 in., crowded and glabrous; anthers 
hairy. Cups }-} in. diam., hoary, margin thin; nut 4-% in. long, glabrous, tip 
conical.— A diseased state is common in which the branchlets are replaced by globose 
sessile brush-like masses of imbricating subulate rigid tomentose scales.—King thinks 
it probable that this and the Mongolian and Japanese Q. aliena, Bl., mongolica, 
Fisch., crispula, Bl., and grosseserrata, Bl., are one species. . 
Var. oblonga, King mss. ; leaves oblong or oblong-obovate shortly acuminate sub- 
entire concolorous and puberulous or glabrate beneath.—Khasia Mts., Mann, Clarke. 
—A very constant form. 
6. Q. lanuginosa, Don Prodr. 57 ; shoots and leaves beneath densely 
rusty or tawny woolly or tomentose, leaves petioled oblong-lanceolate 
toothed acute or acuminate, nerves many parallel very strong beneath, cups 
small hemispheric axillary spicate or on the old wood sessile, cup about 
half as long ,as the small oblong nuts, bracts ovate appressed. A. DC. 
Prodr. xvi. 1.51; Brand. For, Fl. 481; Gamble Man. 384. Q. lanata, 
Smith in Rees Cyclop. xxix. No. 27, and in Wall. Cat. 2772; Wenzig in 
Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 221 (excl. var. incana). Q., Banga, Ham. mss. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 6000-7500 ft. 
A large evergreen tree, attaining 80 ft. Leaves 4-8 ın., very coriaceous; nerves 
10-16 pairs, eimpressed above, simple, straight ; petiole }-1 in., stout. Male spikes 
densely woolly, clustered, stamens glabrous, Fem. fl. tomentose, solitary or in pairs; 
styles linear. Cups 3-3 in. diam.; margin acute; nut as long, glabrous. 
7. Q. incana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 113; Fl. Ind. ii. 642; leaves ob- 
long- or ovate-lanceolate acuminate mucronate-serrate densely tomentose 
beneath, nerves many parallel very strong beneath, cups axillary solitary 
or clustered campanulate embracing half the conico-ovoid nut, bracts 
nangular closely appressed tips often membranous. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. il. 
7 (excl. syn. lanata); Brand. For. Fl. 482; Gamble Man. 384; Wall. Cat. 
2170; Miquel Ann. Mus.i.lll. Q. dealbata, Wall. Cat. 2769. Q. lanata, 
Smith n Rees Cyclop. xxix. n. 27. Q. lanata, Don, var. incana, Wenzig in 
ahrd. But. Gart. Berl. iv. i. 222, P Q. oblongata, Don. Prodr. 57. 
45 TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from the Salt range and Murree to East Nepal, alt. 
00-7500 ft.—DrsTRis. Shan States of Upper Burma. 2. 
An evergreen tree, attaining 50-80 ft., and trunk 4-12 ft. in girth; shoots and 
Petioles hoary or woolly. Leaves 3-6 in., coriaceous, glabrous above, nerves 14-20 
pairs; petiole )-3'n, ` Male spikes softly hairy; anthers glabrous. Fem. fl. usually 
ac elle ; styles linear-clavate, spreading. Cup } in. diam., margin acute, tomentose 
at length glabrate, at first enclosing the nut, which is 1 in. long, hoary with a short 
cylindric umbo, , 
Seer. II. Cyctopatanopsis, Oerst. Male spikes as in Lepidobalanus. 
"acts of the cupular involucre connate in concentric connate or free belts. 
eaves rarely entire. 
1 8. Q. oidocarpa, Korth. in Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 216, t. 47, t. 18 ; 
Pii ong-petioled glabrous elliptic oblong abruptly caudate entire or 
jarate-toothed towards the tip, cup large solitary pe uncled hemispheric 
bose or turbinate half to three-fourths as long as the ovoid or globose 
ny nut, zones 5-7 entire thin. Blume Mus. Bot. 302; A. DC. Prodr. 
Jab 99; Miquel Fl. Ind, Bat. i. i. 856; Ann. Mus. i. 115; Wenzig in 
arb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 233, 
