Quercus."] CXL. CUPULIFEK.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 603 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; at Mongpo, alt. 3500 ft., introduced by Clarke. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, -&c. ; Munnipore, Watt, Clarke. ? BHOTAN, Sooth. 

 BURMA, Brandis. 



A small or large deciduous tree. Leaves 6-10 by 2-5 in., smooth above and pale 

 when dry; petiole J^j-i in. Male spikes 1-2 in., crowded and glabrous; anthers 

 hairy. Cups |-f in. diam., hoary, margin thin; nut ^-f in. long, glabrous, tip 

 conical. A diseased state is common in which the branchlets are replaced by globose 

 sessile brush-like masses of imbricating subulate rigid tomentose scales. King thinks 

 it probable that this and the Mongolian and Japanese Q. aliena, Bl., mongolica, 

 Fisch., crispula, Bl., and grosseserrata, Bl., are one species. 



VAE. oblonga, Kingmss. ; leaves oblong or oblong-obovate shortly acuminate sub- 

 entire concolorous and puberulous or glabrate beneath. Khasia Mts., Mann, Clarke. 

 A very constant form. 



6. Q. lanuginosa, Don Prodr. 57 ; shoots and leaves beneath densely 

 rusty or tawny woolly or tomentose, leaves petioled oblong-lanceolate 

 toothed acute or acuminate, nerves many parallel very strong beneath, cups 

 small hemispheric axillary spicate or on the old wood sessile, cup about 

 half as long 4 as the small oblong nuts, bracts ovate appressed. A. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. ii. 51 ; Brand. For. Fl. 481 ; Gamble Man. 384. Q. lanata, 

 Smith in Rees Cyclop, xxix. No. 27, -and in Wall. Cat. 2772; Wenzig in 

 Jahrb. Sot. Gart. Berl. iv. 221 (excl. var. incand). Q, Banga, Sam. mss. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 6000-7500 ft. 



A large evergreen tree, attaining 80 ft. Leaves 4-8 in., very coriaceous ; nerves 

 10-16 pairs, impressed above, simple, straight ; petiole -1 in., stout. Male spikes 

 densely woolly, clustered, stamens glabrous. Fern. fl. tomentose, solitary or in pairs ; 

 styles linear. Cups |-| in. diam.; margin acute ; nut as long, glabrous. 



7. Q. incana, Boxb. Hort. Seng. 113; Fl. Ind. iii. 642; leaves ob- 

 long- or ovate-lanceolate acuminate mucronate-serrate densely tomentose 

 beneath, nerves many parallel very strong beneath, cups axillary solitary 

 or clustered campanulate embracing half the conico-ovoid nut, bracts 

 triangular closely appressed tips often membranous. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii 

 57 (excl. syn. lanata) ; Brand. For. Fl. 482 ; Gamble Man. 384 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2770 ; Miguel Ann. Mus. i. 111. Q. dealbata, Wall. Cat. 2769. Q. lanata, 

 Smith in Rees Cyclop, xxix. n. 27. Q. lanata, Don, var. iucana, Wenzig in 

 Jahrb. But. Gart. Berl. iv. i. 222. ? Q. oblongata, Don. Prodr. 57. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA ; from the Salt range and Murree to East Nepal, alt. 

 4500-7500 ft. DISTEIB. Shan States of Upper Burma. 



An evergreen tree, attaining 50-80 ft., and trunk 4-12 ft. in girth; shoots and 

 petioles hoary or woolly. Leaves 36 in., coriaceous, glabrous above, nerves 14-20 

 pairs ; petiole ^-i]in. Male spikes softly hairy; anthers glabrous. Fem.fi. usually 

 sessile; styles linear-clavate, spreading. Cup % in. diam., margin acute, tomentose 

 at length glabrate, at first enclosing the nut, which is 1 in. long, hoary with a short 

 cylindric umbo. 



SECT. IT. GYCLCBALAKOFSIS, Oerst. Male spikes as in Lepidobalanus. 



Bracts oil the cu| ular involucre connate in concentric connate or free belts. 

 Leaves rarely entire. 



8. Q. oidocarpa, Korth. in Verb. Nat. Gesch. Sot. 216, t. 47, t. 18 ; 

 leaves long-petioled glabrous elliptic oblong abruptly caudate entire or 

 serrate-toothed towards the tip, cup large solitary peduncled hemispheric 

 globose or turbinate half to three-fourths as long as the ovoid .or globose 

 hoary nut, zones 5-7 entire thin. Blume Mus. Bot. 302 ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 99 ; Miquel FL Ind. Bat. i. i. 856 ; Ann. Mus. i. 115 ; Wenzig in 

 Jalirb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 233. 



