606 CXL. CUPULIFER^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 



AVA, Wallich. TENASSEEIM, alt. 4000 ft., Gallatlyi Moulmein, Heifer. 

 MUNNIPORE, alt. 3000 ft., Watt. 



Branches softly tawny-tomeutose or woolly. Leaves 8-10 in., shining above, 

 almost woolly beneath, nerves rather slender; petiole f-1 in., stout. Cups f-1 in. 

 diam., broader than the nut which has a low uinbo. 



15. Q. velutina, Lindl. in Wall. PI As. Ear. ii. 41, t. 150; Cat. 

 2768; leaves short-petioled pale thinly coriaceous lanceolate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate at both ends obtusely or acutely serrate towards 

 the tip glabrous, young densely villous beneath, nerves 8-10 pairs 

 slender arched, cups few large in a very short spike very shallow half as 

 long as the tomentose depressed hemispheric or globose or turbinate nut, 

 belts 6 or more crenate densely silkily villous. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 99 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 487 (in part] ; Miquel Ann. Mus. i. 115 ; Wenzig Jahrb. 

 Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 236. 



CHITTAGONG, Lister, King's Collector. PEGU and TENASSEEIM, King, &c. 



A deciduous tree, 60-80 ft. ; shoots and young leaves beneath tawny- or brown - 

 villous. Leaves 4-9 in., rather thin base acute, nerves slender not impressed above ; 

 petiole ^ in., slender, glabrous or pubescent. Male spikes densely tawny -villous. Cups 

 H in. diam., base broadly intruded. Nuts of the first year depressed, broader than 

 long, when ripe as broad as long, pale tomentose, top conical, urnbo minute. 



16. Q. lamellosa, Smith in Bees Cyclop, xxix. No. 23; shoots 

 glabrous, leaves very large shortly petioled from broadly oblong to lanceo- 

 late acuminate cuspidately serrate glabrous and glaucous or pubescent, 

 beneath, nerves very many strong and straight, fern. fl. solitary or 

 crowded in short spikes, cups very large hemispheric silky half enclosing 

 the subglobose or turbinate velvety nut. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 101 (excl. 

 syn. Q. Wallichiana) ; Brand. For. FL 488 ; HooJc.f. III. PI. Himal. t. 20 ; 

 Lindl. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 41, t. 149 ; Wall. Cat. 2777 ; G-amble Man. 

 387 ; Miquel in Ann. Mus. i. 114 ; Wenzig Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 236. 

 Q. imbricata, Sam. in Don Prodr. 57. Q. paucilamellosa, A. DC. 1. c. 



EASTEEN HIMALAYA ; from NEPAL, Wallich, to BHOTAN, the Naga and Duphla 

 Hills, alt. 5-8000 ft. MUNNIPOEE, alt. 7-8000 ft., Watt. 



A lofty evergreen tree, attaining 120 ft., and trunk 15 ft. girth ; buds short. Leaves 

 6-12 in., sometimes 10 in. broad, dark green and shining above; nerves 20-25 pairs, 

 impressed above, very stout beneath ; petiole \-\\ in., very stout or slender. Gups 

 sometimes 2 in. diam. and coriaceously fleshy ; belts large, deeply crenate, inner 

 incurved, much larger than the nut. Eoxburgh's locality of Penang is a mistake. 



SECT. III. PASANIA, Miquel. Male spikes stout, erect, more or less 

 persistent, simple or paniculately branched. Fern. fl. at the base of the 

 male spikes or in separate spikes. Invol. of fruit hemispheric or discoid or 

 saucer-shaped, bracts imbricate; nut free or adnate to the cup at the 

 narrowed base only. Leaves entire in all except Q. Lindleyana. See also 

 Q. eumorpha. 



The characters of the subordinate divisions of this Section founded on the form 

 of the nut, must be taken with many exceptions. 



* Nut usually longer than broad, but very variable in most (see also 

 Q. spicata). 



17. Q. KLunstleri, King mss. ; branchlets tomentose, leaves sub- 

 sessile narrowly elliptic- or obovate-oblong acute or obtusely cuspidate 

 entire glabrous or pubescent beneath and on the nerves on both surfaces, 



