604 CXL, CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Quercus. 
Burma, Parish. PERAK; at Larut, Scortechini, King’s Collector.—DISTRIB. 
Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
Shoots quite glabrous. Leaves 6-8 in., rather thinly coriaceous, pale, shining 
above, reticulate beneath; nerves 8-10 pairs, slender; petiole 1 in., very slender. 
Male spikes unknown ; fem. short. Cup 3-1 in. diam., sessile; belts 6-8, thin, flat, 
crenate, pubescent ; nut 3-14 in. diam. usually globose with a long conical zoned 
umbo. 
9. Q. semiserrata, Roxb. FT. Ind. iii. 641; leaves oblong to lanceo- 
late acuminate repand-serrate towards the tip, subglaucous beneath, nerves 
laxly reticulate, petiole pubescent, cups 1-3 velvety on a short stout pe- 
duncle at first turbinate, then hemispheric and embracing the base or all 
of the ovoid velvety nut, belts 5-8 very thick, margin acute or obtuse and 
densely velvety. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 99; Wight [c.t. 211 5. Brand. For. 
Fi. ii. 488; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 488; Wall. Cat. 2798; Wight Ic. t. 211; 
Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 112. Q. Horsfieldii, Miquel l. c. 856; A. DC. l. c. 
Assam, SILHET, CACHAR, and the Knasra MTs., alt. 2-3000 ft., and from PEGU 
to TENASSERIM.—DisTRIB. Sumatra, Banca. 
An evergreen tree, 40-50 ft. ; shoots and young leaves beneath tawny-tomentose. 
Leaves 5-9 in., thinly coriaceous, base acute or obtuse; nerves slender, loosely 
reticulate; petiole 1-1 in., slender. Male spikes slender, villous; flowers minute. 
Cups 1-13 in. diam., villous; belts very variable in number and thickness ; nut li 
to nearly 2 in. long, broadly globosely ovoid or oblong, umbo long subcylindric. _ 
Var. Mannii, leaves 4-6 in. narrowed downwards, nerves 12-14 pairs straight 
ascending, margin of cup very thick broadly everted villous.—Khasia and Naga 
ills. 
10. Q. glauca, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 175; leaves long-petioled oblong to 
ovate-lanceolate acuminate entire or cuspidate-serrate above the middle 
many-nerved glaucous or not beneath, base unequal, cups 2-3 small sessile 
on a short axillary peduncle half as long as the oblong or ovoid thin 
glabrous nut, belts 4-8 silky thin outer crenate. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 1l 
100; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 289; Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 115; Wenzig Jahrb. 
Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 233; Banks. Ic. Sel. Kaempf. t. 17. Q. annulata, 
Smith in Rees Cyclop. xxix. No. 22; A. DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 100; Wall. Cat. 
2767 ; Brand. For. Fl. 488, t. 65 (excl. syn. semiserrata) ; Gamble Man. 
387. Q. Phullata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 57. Q. dentosa, Lindl. in Wall. 
Cat. 2775. Q. laxiflora, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 2774; A. DC. l. c. 108. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 3-6000 ft. KHASIA 
Mrs., alt. 2-4500 ft.—DrsTRIB. Japan. 
A large evergreen tree; buds glabrous, tetragonous. Leaves 3-6 in., coriaceous, 
young silky beneath, teeth incurved ; nerves 12-14 pairs ; petiole 3-1 in., slender. 
Male spikes very slender, hairy ; bracts lanceolate, much longer than the flowers; 
anthers glabrous. Cup }—} in. diam., belts very thin appressed; nut j-1 in. top 
conical; style with a large stout umbo.—Specimens with small entire leaves look 
very different from the type. 
ll. Q. Brandisiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, u. 108; 
For. Fl. ii. 488; leaves thinly coriaceous oblanceolate or elliptic or obovate- 
oblong acute or obtusely cuspidate coarsely repand serrate glaucous be- 
neath, base rounded or acute, nerves 10-12 pairs straight s ender, cups 
solitary shortly peduncled velvety, belts 5-6 erose or entire, nut hemisphere 
base truncate. 
5 MARTABAN; in dry forests, alt. 1-4000 ft., Kurz.—DISTRIB. Shan Hills, is 
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