384 DR. HOOKER ON THREE OAKS OF PALESTINE. 
Q. Syriaca, Kotschy, /. c. t. i. 
? Q. brachyphyllaj Kotschy, I. c. t. ix. 
? Q. hypoleuca, Kotschy, Herb. It. Syriac. No. 99 ! 
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Fl. vere ; fr. October 
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Dist. Graecia, Bosnia ! Byzantium ! Asia minor ! 
Q. infectoria was established by Olivier on plants found in Asia Minor. 
Q. Boissieri originated in specimens brought from Zebdany, in the Antilebanon, by 
Boissier ; Q. inermis, founded on Lebanon specimens gathered by Ehrenberg, is also applied 
by Kotschy to others from the Valley of the Kedisha (Cedars). Q. JPfceffingeri is applied 
both to Syrian and Cilician specimens by Kotschy ; polycarpos, leptocarpos, and Tauricola, 
all to Taurus specimens by Kotschy. Of Q. Syriaca I have no example ; but Kotschy's 
splendid plate serves to identify it absolutely with infectoria, as does the habitat. Of 
Q. brachyphylla also I have no specimens ; it is a Taurus plant, also well illustrated by 
Kotschy. Of Q. hypoleuca I have only one specimen, without flower or fruit, which 
exactly resembles a young shoot of infectoria ; it was collected at Zebdany in the 
Antilebanon. 
Quercus infectoria was met with by us in great abundance on the east slopes of Leba- 
non, again on the rocky hills of Galilee south of Safed, and, lastly, on the summit of 
Carmel. In all these localities it occurred as a small tree 15-20 feet high, or, more often, 
as a bush sparingly branched, with a rather slender rugged trunk, and grey deciduous 
foliage white on the under surface ; it was rendered very conspicuous by the abundance 
of those spherical galls of a deep red-brown colour and shining viscid surface which are 
figured m the 17th volume of our Transactions (plate 22). 
Another gall, of smaller size, paler colour, softer texture, precisely similar to the gall of 
Q. Cems, figured by Loudon and presenting several angular conical protuberances, was 
sparingly found by us in Syria, and, as we believed, on this same tree ; but we had no 
opportunity of identifying the specimen with fruiting ones. Neither of these galls is 
collected m Syria, as far as we could hear : the larger and commoner is probably not 
different from the Aleppo gall, though it may be inferior in quality. The acorns are of a 
singularly elegant form and bright amber-colour. It is very rare in English nurseries : 
Loudon states that he had (1838) never seen it, and knew of no living specimen near 
London though, according to catalogues, it was introduced in 1822. Some of those I 
brought home in damp earth are now growing in the Royal Gardens. 
Uie Quercus mfectoria is common throughout Asia Minor. Mr. Balansa showed us 
trees ot it near Smyrna, and informed us that it was extremely variable in foliage and 
pubescence^ Its western limit is apparently Bosnia, and its eastern the confines of Persia; 
to the north it attains the latitude of Constantinople, and its southern limit is probably 
the hills ol Samaria. 
Mit ^7..^™ ^ S P- *L UUl Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 448; Tchihatcheff, As. 
Mm. Bot. vol. n. p. 470, t. xli. and xlii. 
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