Quereus.] CXL. CUPULIFER^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 605 



An evergreen tree, 35-40 ft., shoots pubescent. Leaves 4-5 in., glabrous and 

 wrinkled above, hardly shining sparsely downy and reticulate beneath, nerves slender 

 conspicuous; petiole -f in., slender. Cup in. diam., velvety; belts 3-4, thin, 

 very appressed. Nut |-| in. diam. 



12. O. lineata, Slume Sijd. 523; Fl. Jav. Cupul. 32, t. 19; Mus. 

 Sot. i. 302 ; leaves coriaceous obovate linear oblong or lanceolate acute or 

 acuminate spinulosely serrate tip serrulate or entire glaucous pale glabrous 

 or pubescent beneath, nerves 16-30 pairs, cups shortly peduncled not half as 

 long as the more or less hemispheric or subglobose smooth nut. A. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. ii. 98; Miquel FL Ind. Sat. i. i. 855; Ann. Mus. i. 114; 

 Wenzig in Jahrb. Sot. Gart. Serl. iv. 232. Q. polyneura, Miquel PI. 

 Jungh. i. 11. Q. oxyrhyncha, Miq.Fl.Ind.Bat. Suppl. i. 347; Ann. Mus. 

 I. c. 113. ? Q. kamroopii, Don Prodr. 57. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft. BHOTAN, Griffith-, KHASIA and NAGA 

 MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



A small tree ; branches thickly lenticellate. Leaves 3-7 in., shining above ; 

 nerves straight, strongly shiny beneath j petiole f-1 in. , slender. Male spikes 2-4 in., 

 tawny villous. Cups in very short spikes, sessile, f in. or less in diameter, very 

 variable, usually almost hemispheric, margin acute often toothed, shorter than the 

 large or small nut. 



VAR. oxyodon, Wenzig, 1. c. ; branchlets glabrous, leaves lanceolate caudate 

 crenulate, spinulous serrate glaucous beneath, nerves many close, cup in. diam., 

 belts many thin hoary-tomentose, nut subglobose. Q. oxyodon, Miquel Ann. Mus. 

 i. 114; ; A. DC. Prodr. I. c. Khasia Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. Naga Hills, 

 Prain. 



VAR. Lolbii, Wenzig, 1. c. ; branchlets tawny-woolly, leaves 2-4 in. closely 

 serrulate serratures setaceous, beneath white or yellowish and finely tomentose, 

 nerves many close-set. Khasia Hills, alt. about 3000 ft., Griffith, Mann. 



VAR. Griffithii, King mss. ; leaves subentire caudate-acuminate. Khasia Hills. 



VAR. Thomsoniana, Wenzig, 1. c. ; leaves glaucous or fulvous beneath serrate above 

 the middle, nerves many strong, cups large turbinate or cupular fulvous-tomentose, 

 belts crenate at first large loose and thin, nut *l-li in. hemispheric glabrous. 

 Q. Thomsoniana, A. DC. 1. c. 98. Sikkim, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; Bhotan, Griffith,. 



VAE. Hildebrandii, King mss. ; branchlets glabrous, leaves sinuate-denticulate 

 glabrous and glaucous beneath, cup 1 in. diam. nearly flat, belts confluent into 

 ridges, nut hemispheric 1^ in. diam., umbo small. Arracan. 



13. Q. mespilifolia, Wall. Cat. 2766; leaves ovate to oblong- or 

 ovate-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate glabrous or midrib villou 

 beneath coarsely serrate not glaucous beneath, young flocculent, nerves 

 12-14 pairs stout, cup deep hemispheric or obconic, belts 6-10 velvety, 

 nut globose or broad and depressed hardly or half exserted hoary. A. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. ii. 102 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 488. 



MTJNNIPORE, Watt. ARRACAN and BURMA, alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, Kurz. 



An evergreen tree ; branchlets tawny-villous. Leaves 4-7 in., thinly coriaceous, 

 shining above, reticulate beneath ; nerves nearly straight, stout beneath ; petiole 

 f-f in., stout, woolly. Male spikes 4-6 in., dense-fld., woolly. Cup 1-1^ in. diam., 

 base hemispheric or obconic, belts 8-15 entire or crenate ; nut 1 in. diam., globose or 

 hemispheric, depressed, globose. 



14. Q. Helferiana, A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 101; leaves large coria- 

 ceous elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate acute or obtuse obtusely sinuate-serrate 

 IB ore or less softly tomentose beneath, nerves 10-12 pairs, cups hemispheric 

 or flatter, belts almost free crenulate, nut turbinate or depressed hemi- 

 spheric half exserted. 



