Quercus. | CXL, CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) 605 
An evergreen tree, 35-40 ft., shoots pubescent. Leaves 4-5 in., glabrous and 
wrinkled above, hardly shining sparsely downy and reticulate beneath, nerves slender 
conspicuous; petiole 3-3 in., slender. Cup 2 in. diam., velvety ; belts 3-4, thin, 
very appressed, Nut 3-8 in. diam. 
12. Q. lineata, Blume Bijd. 523; Fl. Jav. Cupul. 32, t. 19; Mus. 
Bot. i. 302 ; leaves coriaceous obovate linear oblong or lanceolate acute or 
acuminate spinulosely serrate tip serrulate or entire glaucous pale glabrous 
or pubescent beneath, nerves 16-30 pairs, cups shortly peduncled not half as 
long as the more or less hemispheric or subglobose smooth nut. A, DC. 
Prodr. xvi. ii. 98; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. i. 855; Ann, Mus. i. 114; 
Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 232. Q. polyneura, Miquel Pi. 
Jungh. i. ll. Q. oxyrhyncha, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 347; Ann. Mus. 
l c. 113. PQ. kamroopii, Dən Prodr. 57. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft.  BHoTAN, Griffith; Kuasta and NAGA 
Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft.—DISTRIB. Java. . .. 
A small tree; branches thickly lenticellate. Leaves 3-7 in., shining above; 
nerves straight, strongly shiny beneath; petiole $—1 in., slender. Male spikes 2-4 in., 
tawny villous. Cups in very short spikes, sessile, $ in. or less in diameter, very 
variable, usually almost hemispheric, margin acute often toothed, shorter than the 
large or small nut. 
VaR. oxyodon, Wenzig, l. c.; branchlets glabrous, leaves lanceolate caudate 
crenulate, spinulous serrate glaucous beneath, nerves many close, cup $ in. diam., 
belts many thin hoary-tomentose, nut subglobose. Q. oxyodon, Miquel Ann. Mus. 
pais A. DC. Prodr. l. c. —Khasia Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. Naga Hills, 
rain, 
Var. Lobbi, Wenzig, 1. c ; branchlets tawny-woolly, leaves 2-4 in. closely 
Serrulate serratures setaceous, beneath white or yellowish and finely tomentose, 
nerves many close-set.—Khasia Hills, alt. about 3000 ft., Griffith, Mann. — 
Var, Grifithii, King mss. ; leaves subentire caudate-acuminate.—Khasia Hills. 
Var. Thomsoniana, Wenzig, l. c. ; leaves glaucous or fulvous beneath serrate above 
the middle, nerves many strong, cups large turbinate or cupular fulvous-tomentose, 
Its crenate at first large loose and thin, nut l-l} in. hemispheric glabrous. 
Q. Thomsoniana, 4. DC. l. c. 98.—Sikkim, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; Bhotan, Grifith. 
VAR. Hildebrandii, King mss. ; branchlets glabrous, leaves sinuate-denticulate 
glabrous and glaucous beneath, cup li in. diam. nearly flat, belts confluent into 
ridges, nut hemispheric 14 in. diam., umbo small.—Arracan. 
18. Q. mespilifolia, Wall. Cat. 2766; leaves ovate to oblong- or 
Ovate-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate glabrous or midrib villous 
eneath coarsely serrate not glaucous beneath, young flocculent, nerves 
12-14 pairs stout, cup deep hemispheric or obconic, belts 6-10 velvety, 
nut globose or broad and depressed hardly or half exserted hoary. A. DC. 
Prod», xvi. ii. 102; Kurz For. FL ii. 488. un 
MUNNIPORE, Watt. ARRACAN and Burma, alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, Kurz. 
, An evergreen tree ; branchlets tawny-villous. Leaves 4—7 in., thinly coriaceous, 
jning above, reticulate beneath; nerves nearly straight, stout beneath ; petiole 
3-4 in., stout, woolly. Male spikes 4-6 in., dense-fld., woolly. Cup 1-14 jn. diam. 
se hemispheric or obconic, belts 8-15 entire or crenate; nut 1 in. diam., globose or 
emispheric, depressed, globose. 
14. Q. Helferiana DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 101; leaves large coria- 
Ceous elliptic. or ovate la lat acute or obtuse obtusely sinuate-serrate 
More or less softly tomentose beneath, nerves 10-12 pairs, cups hemis heric 
or flatter, belts almost free crenulate, nut turbinate or depressed hemi- 
spheric half exserted. 
