Quercus.] CXL. CUPULIFERZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 609 
hemispheric glabrous nut, bracts triangular acute appressed or spreading. 
A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 84; Wight Ie. t. 219; Wall. Cat. 2784; Kurz For. 
Fl. ii. 483; Wall. Cat. 9784 (in part); Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. 
lv. 224 (excl. syn. dealbata & acuminata). Q. callicarpifolia, Griff. Itin. 
Notes, ii. 87 (in part). 
SIKKIM HiMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft. Kaasra Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft. MUNNIPORE, 
alt. 4-8000 ft., Watt. 2e. 
A large evergreen tree. Leaves 5-10 in., coriaceous, shining above with impressed 
slender nerves; petiole 3—4 in. Male spikes stout, erect, rachis and flowers thinly 
tomentose. Cups 3-1 in. diam., usually clustered but hardly confluent, margin thin 
entire. Nu£ with a conical top and small cylindric umbo.—Leaves very like Q. 
Pachyphylla ; ina very large-leaved state more ovate and 31 in. broad. Clarke hasa 
$16 fom Shillong in the Khasia (alt. 6000 ft.) with slender branches and leaves 
in. long. 
26. Q. dealbata, Hook. f. & Thoms. mss. (not Wall); branches 
glabrous or hoary, leaves coriaceous elliptic-ovate or -lanceolate acuminate 
quite entire glabrous or minutely pubescent beneath, nerves 6-12 pairs, 
spikes terminal, cups hemispheric embracing half or more of the subglo- 
bose hemispheric or subpyriform hoary nut, bracts triangular acute 
appressed or spreading. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 85; Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 
1 Q. fenestrata, Roxb., var. dealbata, Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. 
Iv. 224. Q. callicarpifolia, Griff. Itin. Notes, ii. 87 (in part). 
Broran and KHasrA Mrs., alt. 3-6500 ft, Griffith, &c. Naca Hirs, alt. 
-, Clarke. 
A bush or small tree, near Q. fenestrata, but the leaves are smaller, never caudate 
and often finely tomentose beneath, the acorns are much smaller and the nut hoary. 
Khasia form has leaves and branches flocculent, and the leaves hoary above. 
tt Cup covering only the lower part of the nut (or more in Q. spicata 
§ Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces. 
27. Q. spicata, Smith in Rees Cyclop. xxix. n. 12; branchlets 
glabrous, leaves large polymorphous subsessile or petioled oblong to lan- 
ceolate oblanceolate or obovate or subpanduriform base acute rounded or 
Cordate, nerves 10-20 pairs slender arched reticulate, fruiting spikes long 
Stout, cups polymorphous usually small clustered or confluent covering 
More or less of the ovoid subglobose or hemispheric glabrous nut, bracts 
minute ovate often confluent in toothed rings pubescent. A. DC. Prodr. 
Tdi 85; Don Prodr. 56; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 40, t. 46; Cat. 2781 
Brand. For, Fl. ii. 489; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 486; Gamble Man. 385; Miquel 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 846; Ann. Mus.i 106; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart, Berl 
5 224: Oudem. Annot. Cupulif. Jav. 5, 6, t. 1, 4, f. 1. Q. squamata, 
seb. FI. Jnd. iii. 638 ; Wight Ic. t. 913. Q. grandifolia, Don in Spreng. 
fan üi. 856; Prodr. 57, and in Lamb. Pin. ii. App. 2. Q. pyrifolia, Blume 
Very Bot L 304; Mig. FI. Ind. Bat. i. i. 864. Q. elegans, Blume in Batav. 
on. 3x. 208; Bid. 518: Fl. Jav. Cupulif. 21, t. 10; Oudem. Annot. 
;, Pulif. Jav, 5, 6, 1.2, 3. Q. racemosa, Jack in Mal. Misc. vii. 86; Korthals 
85 Verh. Nat. Gesch. 205. Q. Arcaula, Ham. mss. in Spreng. Syst. iii. 
i Blume Mus. Bot, i. 290, | 
ROPICAL HIMALAYA; f wards, alt. 2-4000 ft. Assam, MUNNI- 
Maw and southwards to Trane and the Maray PENINSULA.—DisTRIB. 
ay Islands, 
7 Small tree, all parts glabrous except the hoary male, spikes, movevcious or 
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