604 CXL. CUPULIFER^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Quercus. 



BURMA, Parish. PEHAK ; at Larut, ScortecMni, King's Collector. DISTEIB. 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Shoots quite glabrous. Leaves 6-8 in., rather thinly coriaceous, pale, shining 

 above, reticulate beneatli ; nerve* 8-10 pairs, slender ; petiole 1 in., very slender. 

 Male splices unknown ; fern, short. Cup ^-1 in. diam., sessile; belts 6-8, thin, flat, 

 crenate, pubescent ; nut f-l| in. diain. usually globose with a long conical zoned 

 unibo. 



9. Q. semiserrata, Boxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 641 ; leaves oblong to lanceo- 

 late acuminate repand- serrate towards the tip, subglaucous beneath, nerves 

 laxly reticulate, petiole pubescent, cups 1-3 velvety on a short stout pe- 

 duncle at first turbinate, then hemispheric and embracing the base or all 

 of the ovoid velvety nut, belts 5-8 very thick, margin acute or obtuse and 

 densely velvety. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 99 ; Wight Ic. t. 211 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. ii. 488 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 488 ; Wall. Cat. 2798 ; Wight Ic. t. 211 ; 

 Miguel Ann. Mus. i. 112. Q. Horsfieldii, Miguel 1. c. 856; A. DC. I. c. 



ASSAM, SILHET, CACHAR, and the KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-3000 ft., and from PEGU 

 to TENASSERIM. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Banca. 



An evergreen tree, 40-50 ft. ; shoots and young leaves beneath tawny-tomentose. 

 Leaves 5-9 in., thinly coriaceous, base acute or obtuse j nerves slender, loosely 

 reticulate; petiole -1 in., slender. Male spikes slender, villous; flowers minute. 

 Cups 1-1| in. diam., villous ; belts very variable in number and thickness; nut 1 

 to nearly 2 in. long, broadly globosely ovoid or oblong, umbo long subcylindric. 



VAR. Mannii, leaves 4-6 in. narrowed downwards, nerves 12-14 pairs straight 

 ascending, margin of cup very thick broadly everted villous. Khasia and Naga 

 Hills. 



10. Q. glauca, Thunb. FL Jap. 175; leaves long-petioled oblong to 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate entire or cuspidate-serrate above the middle 

 many-nerved glaucous or not beneath, base unequal, cups 2-3 small sessile 

 on a short axillary peduncle half as long as the oblong or ovoid thin 

 glabrous nut, belts 4-8 silky thin outer crenate. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 

 100 ; Blume Mus. Sot. i. 289 ; Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 115 ; Wenzig Jahrb. 

 Sot. Gart. Berl. iv. 233; Banks; Ic. Sel. Kaempf. t. 17. Q. annulata, 

 Smith in Eees Cyclop, xxix. No. 22 ; A. DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 100 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2767 ; Brand. For. Fl. 488, t. 65 (excl. syn. semiserrata) ; Gamble Man. 

 387. Q. Phullata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 57. Q. dentosa, Lindl. in Wall. 

 Cat. 2775. Q. laxiflora, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 2774; A. DC. I. c. 108. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA j from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 3-6000 ft. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 2-4500 ft. DISTRIB. Japan. 



A large evergreen tree ; buds glabrous, tetragonous. Leaves 3-6 in., coriaceous, 

 young silky beneath, teeth incurved ; nerves 12-14 pairs ; petiole f-1 in., slender. 

 Male spikes very slender, hairy ; bracts lanceolate, much longer than the flowers ; 

 anthers glabrous. Cup |-f in. diam., belts very thin appressed ; nut -f in., top 

 conical ; style with a large stout umbo. Specimens with small entire leaves look 

 very different from the type. 



11. Q. Brandisiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, ii. 108 ; 

 For. Fl. ii. 488 ; leaves thinly coriaceous oblanceolate or elliptic or obovate- 

 oblong acute or o"btusely cuspidate coarsely repand serrate glaucous be- 

 neath, base rounded or acute, nerves 10-12 pairs straight slender, cups 

 solitary shortly peduncled velvety, belts 5-6 erose or entire, nut hemispheric 

 base truncate. 



MARTABAN; in dry forests, alt. 1-4000 ft., Kurz. DISTRIB. Shan Hills, in 

 Burma. 



