Wardiane. N. O. Cupuliferee. 
TAB. DLXII. 
Quercus Lusitranica. Lam. 
(Gall-nut Oak). 
Foliis ovatis aut ovato-lanceolatis coriaceis luridis subtus palli- 
dis junioribus tomentosis margine undulato-serratis dentibus 
acutis aut crenatis basi rotundatis aut cordatis, cupule sub- 
sessilis squamis adpressis lanatis subciliatis, glande conica 
aut cylindraceo-elongata. Webb. 
Q. Lusitanica, Lam.—Webb, It. Hisp. p.11. Q. faginea, Lam.— 
Q. Valentina, Cav. Ic. 2. p. 25, t.129. Q. australis, Link. 
Q. hybrida, Brot. Q. infectoria, Olivier. Q. Turneri and 
Q. Canariensis, Willd. 
Has. From N. lat. 41° and 42° in Spain and Portugal, to the 
Valley of Domoiiz Deréth, N. of Constantinople in the East, 
and as far South as Syria. Wedd. 
Few plants require illustration by figures more than the 
Oaks of the south of Europe. Mr. Webb’s “Iter Hispaniense’ 
contains most valuable remarks on those of Spain and Por- 
tugal; and it is through them-I am able to determine the 
present species, of which the specimen was kindly sent to me by 
G. H. Ward, Esq., of Northwood Park, Isle of Wight, taken from 
a fine young tree which that gentleman raised from acorns of 
the south of Spain. It entirely accords with the Q. Lusitania 
of Lamarck, of which Mr. Webb says: “It has been the fate 
of this remarkable tree to have been overlooked for more than 
two hundred years after the time of Clusius, and then to have 
been almost simultaneously re-discovered and described under 
a multitude of names (as given above) by various authors 
This, too, is the more singular as regarding a tree which pro- 
- duces an object of primary importance, namely, the gall-nuts 
of commerce. Clusius, indeed, remarks: “Galli autem €X- 
_ tremis ramulis nascuntur, iis qua in officinis venales reperiuntul, 
__ perquam similes ;” and in fact, when compared with the Quercus 
__ infectoria, both as originally collected by Olivier, and as found 
by Labillardiére in Syria, and by myself and M. Parolini im 
Phrygia, the Spanish turns out to be identical with the Levant 
species, whose product is so universally employed.” 
____ Fig.1. Upper scale from the base of the acorn-cup. J 2+ 
Scale from the base of the cup :—magnified, 
