616 CXL. CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Quercus. 
. . . DC. 
with a conic base truncate, exposed top densely white-tomentose. A. Di . 
Prodr. xvi. ii. 103; Blume Mus. Bot. 1. 288; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. i. 803; 
Ann. Mus. i. 116; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 237. 
PERAK, alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechini,! King's Collector.—DISTRIB. Sumatra, 
Borneo. , 
A densely leafy tree, 40-50 ft.; branches glabrous. Leaves 6-8 in., brown above 
with the midrib prominent, paler beneath; petiole 4-3 in., very stout. Tavo, vide 
sessile or stoutly pedicelled, 2 in. diam., hoary, when young depressed an elo : 
with minute confluent bracts, when mature smooth or obscurely annulate, dehiscing 
vertically. 
50. Q. discocarpa, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1874, 242; leaves coriaceoni 
subsessile oblong-lanceolate acuminate entire base acute beneath, wit 
cinnamon appressed pubescence, nerves 8-10 pairs ascending straig An he 
midrib sunk above strong beneath, involucres crowded at the tips ©: vies 
branches disciform hoary with 3-4 belts of simple or compound pric a 
wholly enclosing the depressed silky nut. Castanopsis discocarpa, 
Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, 201. 
PERAK, King’s Collector.—DistTR1B. Banka. . 
A tree, 100-130 ft. Branches purple, glabrous. Leaves 3-6 in., pale ee 
obtusely acuminate ; petiole à in.—1 have seen no fruit. Hance describes it as N wid 
adherent to the base of the involucre, subangular, depressed -pyramidal, pale brown, 
with a short thick style. 
9l. Q. confragosa, King mss.; glabrous, leaves very coriaceona 
elliptic-lanceolate or broadly oblong acuminate obtuse or obtusely cuspi te 
entire base acute, nerves 6-8 pairs arched sunk above strong but s etel 
beneath, involucre globose rugosely reticulated or tubercled completely 
enclosing the densely hoary globose or turbinate nut. 
PEBAK, King’s Collector. 
A large tree. 60 ft. Leaves rigid, 5-7 by 2-3in.; petiole 4 in., stout. J: nvoluore 
in slender spikes, 2-13 in. diam., reticulatedly pitted when dry. Nut with a conc! 
truncate base. 
** Involucre of fruit zoned. 
52. Q. lanceæfolia, Roxb. FI Ind. iii. 634; glabrous, leaves thin 
long-petioled lanceolate subcaudate entire base acute or rounded ory ar- 
subsilvery beneath, nerves 8-15 pairs slender arched raised. on boti T s 
faces, involucres in long spikes obliquely ascending ovoid hoary wit thin 
broad wavy often interrupted concentric ridges enclosing the ovo! Wall. 
puberulous nut. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 102 (excl. syn. Q. lucida); 7 hrb. 
Cat. 3733; Wight Te. t. 212; Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 116; Wenzig ond). 
Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 236. Q. glomerata, Wall. Cat. 2791 (not of O aie 
Q: fenestrata, Wall. Cat. 2784 (in part, not of Roxb.). Castanopsis ne 
folia, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 482. Castanea tribuloides, Wall. Cat. 2760 D. 
ne 
Sikkim and Bnoraw HIMALAYA, alt. 1-2000 ft., J. D. H. ASSAM and Um 
Kuasia Mrs., Wallich, &c. MUNNIPORE, Clarke.  Cu1TTAGONG, J. D. H. 4 
Upper Burma, Anderson. . s mem- 
A small or large tree. Leaves very variable in size, 4-10 in., alway nerves 
branous, grey green above, pale reddish grey beneath, base rarely r a bursting 
reticulate ; petiole ł}-l in. Involucre 1-1} in. long, very stoutly pedicelled, 
irregularly. led. 
Var. semicristata, King; ridges wavy crested or more or less ligni 
Q. Kurzii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, 328. Castanea semicristata, Kur 
Khasia Mts., alt. 4000 ft. 
