Quercus.] CXL. CUPULIFER^. (J. D. Hooker.) 609 



hemispheric glabrous nut, bracts triangular acute appressed or spreading. 

 A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 84; Wight Ic. t. 219; Wall. Cat. 2784; Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 483 ; Wall. Cat. 2784 (in part) ; Wenziy in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. 

 iv. 224 (excl. syn. dealbata, & acuminata). Q. callicarpifolia, Griff. Itin. 

 Notes, ii. 87 (in part}. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. MUNNIPORE, 

 alt. 4-8000 ft., Watt. 



A large evergreen tree. Leaves 5-10 in., coriaceous, shining above with impressed 

 slender nerves ; petiole - in. Male spikes stout, erect, raclris and flowers thinly 

 tomeutose. Cups f-1 in. diam., usually clustered but hardly confluent, margin thin 

 entire. Nut with a conical top and small cylindric umbo. Leaves very like Q. 

 pachyphylla ; in a very large-leaved state more ovate and 3^ in. broad. Clarke has a 

 state from Shillong in the Khasia (alt. 6000 ft.) with slender branches and leaves 

 3 in. long. 



26. Q. dealbata, Hook. f. Sf Thorns, mss. (not Wall.} ; branches 

 glabrous or hoary, leaves coriaceous elliptic-ovate or -lanceolate acuminate 

 quite entire glabrous or minutely pubescent beneath, nerves 6-12 pairs, 

 spikes terminal, cups hemispheric embracing half or more of the subglo- 

 bose hemispheric or subpyriform hoary nut, bracts triangular acute 

 appressed or spreading. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 85; Miguel Ann. Hits. i. 

 107. Q. fenestrata, Roxb., var. dealbata, Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. 

 iv. 224. Q. callicarpifolia, Griff. Itin. Notes, ii. 87 (in part}. 



BHOTAN and KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-6500 ft., Griffith, &c. NAGA HILLS, alt. 

 5800ft., Clarice. 



A bush or small tree, near Q. fenestrata, but the leaves are smaller, never caudate 

 and often finely tomentose beneath, the acorns are much smaller and the nut hoary. 

 A Khasia form has leaves and branches flocculent, and the leaves hoary above. 



ft Cup covering only the lower part of tfie nut (or more in Q. spicata 

 Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces. 



27. Q. spicata, Smith in Bees Cyclop, xxix. n. 12; branchlets 

 glabrous, leaves large polymorphous subsessile or petioled oblong to lan- 

 ceolate oblanceolate or obovate or subpanduriforin base acute rounded or 

 cordate, nerves 10-20 pairs slender arched reticulate, fruiting spikes long 

 stout, cups polymorphous usually small clustered or confluent co^arins- 

 more or less of the ovoid subglobose or hemispheric glabrous nut, bracts 

 minute ovate often confluent in toothed rings pubescent. A. DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 85 ; Don Prodr. 56 ; Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 40, t. 46 ; Cat. 2781 

 Brand. For. Fl. ii. 489 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 486 ; Gamble Man. 385 ; Miguel 

 Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. 846; Ann. Mus. i. 106; Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl 

 iv. 224 ; Oudem. Annot. Cupulif. Jav. 5, 6, t. 1, 4, f. 1. Q. squamata, 

 Eoxb. FL Ind. iii. 638 ; Wight Ic. t, 213. Q. grandifolia, Don in Spreny. 

 Syst. iii. 856 ; Prodr. 57, and in Lamb. Pin. ii. App. 2. Q. pyrifolia,- J B/ti?^e 

 Mus. Bot. i. 304; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. i. 864. Q. elegans, Blame in Batav. 

 Verh. ix. 208; Bljd. 518; Fl. Jav. Cupulif. 21, t. 10; Oudem. Annot. 

 Cupulif. Jav. 5, 6, t. 2, 3. Q. racemosa, Jack in Mai. Misc. vii. 86 ; Korthals 

 in Verli. Nat. Gesch. 205. Q. Arcaula, Ham. mss. in Spreng. Syst. iii. 

 857 ; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 290. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Nepal eastwards, alt. 2-4000 ft. A.3SAM, MUNNI- 

 PORE, and southwards to TENASSERIM and the MALAY PEXINSULA. DISTJRIB. 

 Malay Islands. I 



A small tree, all parts glabrous except the hoary male spikes, monoecious or 



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