Quercus. | CXL. CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) 619 
strong arched ascending nerves, petiole 1-2 in., fem. panicle erect pyramidal with 
slender horizontal distant white-tomentose branches, bracts densely tomentose 1-fld.— 
Upper Assam, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4472, 4464), Brandis, Mann; on the Duphla 
Hills, Lister. 
QueRcvs (Lepidobalanus) sP., Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1312 (the fruit only). 
Involucre 13 in. long, broadly ovoid oblong, thickly crustaceous when dry, finely 
tomentose rounded at both ends, surface with adnate rather distant bracts in broken 
transverse series longer more crowded and recurved towards the apex; nut very 
broadly oblong wholly included adnate all but the very small terminal pubescent area 
to the walls of the involucre, walls excessively thick and strong, seed conform 
the cavity, cotyledons fleshy not ruminate.—Assam, Jenkins. 
Q. mixta, A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 83, consists of imperfect specimens of possibly 
two species mixed in Wallich’s Herbarium (Cat. 2783) with Q. A mherstiana. 
Q. (Lithocarpus) OLLA, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. 1875, ii. 197, t. 14, f. 9, 
from Assam, Jenkins. Described from the fruit alone, of which Dr. King has kindly 
sent me a specimen ; it is broadly pitcher-shaped, 3 in. high, with a broad flat base 
lin. diam., and thick walls narrowing to the mouth which is 3 in, diam., sides 
hoary clothed with many series of appressed broadly triangular cuspidate bracts, 
mouth thick rounded with the bracts inflexed. Nut with the depressed top level 
with the mouth of the cup, umbo capitate stipitate.— Probably nearest Q. truncata. 
QvERCUS sp.? In the Kew collection of drawings of plants of Singapore there 
ère some made by or for a Mr. Parry, and amongst them one represents a magnificent 
species of oak, with stout branches, elliptic-oblong cuspidate dark-green leaves 12 by 
9$ in., obtuse at both ends or tip cuspidate, with 10 pairs of spreading arched nerves, 
and a petiole 1 in.; cups sessile on a short rachis, shallow, broadly campanulate, 
* In. diam, across the broadly spreading recurved mouth, which is formed of very 
stout obtuse bracts 3 of an inch long; nut 1} in. long, broadly oblong, with a rounded 
mubonate top and deeply intruded base, the walls are represented as very thick ; seed 
roader than long, vertically grooved, and with a large conical umbo ; the base only 
of the nut appears to be embraced by the cup. 
Quercus sP., * Antidesmer ? Herb. Finlayson, Wall. Cat. 9144," and 
Quercus sP., ** Antidesmem ? Wall. Cat. 9145,” Tavoy, are Querci in flower only, 
and undeterminable, 
4, CASTANOPSIS, Spach. 
Habit and character of Quercus, Sect. Chlamydobalanus ; differs in the 
closed fruiting involucre enclosing l-4 nuts and being covered with 
abe ters of spines or tubercles, and often splitting irregularly.—Species 
Sout 25, one Californian, the rest Eastern Tropical Asian. 
fendi genus inseparable from Quercus by any constant character ; the male and 
inrol inflorescences of the two are undistinguishable, except when the, em. 
present d contain more than one flower, which is very rare in Quercus, The fruits 
ascertai internally several very distinct types of structure, but my attempts to 
(p 601) these from dried specimens have failed. The statement under Quercus 
dif ) of my indebtedness to Dr. King for aid in the description of its most 
valt species, ‘applies to this equally difficult genus. His forthcoming monograph 
oft . . as r i r- 
minao d0-Malayan species of both genera will be indispensable for their deter 
sping lere ovoid or globose, rarely transversely elongate, dehiscent, 
* . 
spines “Us of involucre more or less concealed by the crowded subulate 
