Plants of the Punjab. 
TREES WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
PETALS NONE. 
Flowers minute, close set on Hanging or Erect Spikes. 
Betula alnoides, 
CUPULIFER. 
BB. T.v.0599. 
Himalaya, 5-10,000 ft. 
Alnus nepalensis, 
CUPULIFERS. 
Ly. a00: 
Himalaya, 8-9,000 ft. 
Alnus nitida, 
CUPULIFERE. 
tt. B.1. v. 600. 
Himalaya, 5-9,000 ft. 
bark thicker and excrescences shorter and stripping 
off in narrower bands than the last species ; leaves 3-6 
in. long, long-pointed ; nut with broader wings than 
the last. 
bark compact, silvery grey; fruit a woody cone, 
with a winged nut. The English representative of this 
genus is Alnus glutinosa, Common Alder. 
bark dark brown, deeply furrowed ; fruit a woody 
cone ; nut with a thickened margin. 
Fruit, a Nut (Acorn) seated in a Cup of Hardened Bracts. 
Cuercus 
Semecarpifolia, 
Kharshu. 
CUPULIFERS. 
if, : 1. v. 601. 
Himalaya, 6-12,000 ft. 
Quercus dilatata, 
Moru. 
CuPULIPERZ. 
F. B. I. v. 602. 
Himalaya,4,500-9,000 ft. 
Quercus Ilex, 
Quercus incana, 
Bana. 
CUPULIFERE. 
F. B. I. v. 603. 
Salt Range, Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Quercus glauca, 
CuPULIFERZE. 
F. B. I. v. 604. 
Himalaya, 3-6,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
leaves brown and woolly beneath; acorn globose, 
black when ripe, enclosed only a third in the cup of 
overlapping scales, 
large ; leaves quite smooth and green ; acorn ovoid, 
pointed, solitary, smooth, brown when ripe, cup of 
over-lapping (imbricate) scales covering half the nut. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple: 
leaves when young pinkish and woolly all over, 
when mature dark green and smooth above, white or 
grey woolly beneath; acorn ovoid, generally solitary, 
white and woolly when young, brown and smooth when 
ripe, cup of overlapping scales at first almost covering 
the acorn, afterwards only half. 
large; leaves smooth and green; acorn single 
or in pairs, ovoid, half buried in a cup of scales, arranged 
in thin velvety rings of scales, 
