424 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
The leaves of this variety are oblong to oblong-obovate in outline, broadly 
cuneate or occasionally sharply cuneate at base, divided by broad sinuses 
rounded in the bottom into 5 or 7 narrow acuminate spine-tipped lobes, the 
lateral entire, the elongated terminal lobe slightly 3-lobed at apex; they are 
thick, lustrous on the upper surface and glabrous or sometimes pubescent 
below, furnished with small axillary tufts of hairs, 5-10 cm. long and 2-8 cm. 
wide, the terminal lobe of the larger leaves being sometimes 5 cm. in length; 
petioles slender, glabrous, often tinged with red, 5-15 cm. long. The nut is 
about 8 mm. long and 5 mm. in diameter, pointed and tomentose at apex, and 
inclosed for one-quarter of its length in a turbinate cup covered with the thin 
scales rounded at apex of Q. texana. 
It is a shrub or small tree with slender, glabrous, bright orange red branch- 
lets becoming reddish brown in the second year, and acute winter buds 
4-5 mm. long covered with brown more or less tomentose scales. It is possible 
that this is the oak from the mouth of the Pecos River described by TORREY 
(Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 206. 1858) as Q. coccinea var. microcar pa. 
A specimen of a plant which differs only from those from the Chicos 
Mountains in the darker color of the branchlets was collected by Buckley in 
1875 near Fort Davis, in Jeff Davis County, Texas. The shape of the leaves of 
these trees is very different from those of Q. fexana of central Texas, and in 
spite of the similarity of the fruit it may be possible, when more material is 
available, to separate this form specifically. 
/QUERCUS TEXANA var. stellapila, n. var.—Differing from the 
type in the clusters of fascicled hairs which cover both surfaces of 
the mature leaves and the branchlets of the year. 
Sproul’s Ranch above Fort Davis, Davis County, Texas, alt. 2000 m., 
D. M. Andrews (no. 74, type), August 25, 1913. 
The leaves of this variety, which is a small tree, are thick, dark bluish 
green above, yellowish below, oblong-obovate, acuminate at apex, cuneate 
or occasionally rounded at base, and divided by wide shallow sinuses rounded 
in the bottom into broad usually entire acute lobes. They are 7-12 cm. long 
and 5-7 cm. wide; petioles slender, 5-6 cm. in length. The fruit, although 
slightly eae. cannot be distinguished from that of var. chesosensis. This 
tree in the shape of the leaves, their short petioles, and in the persistent 
fascicled hairs which cover them and the branchlets is the most distinct of the 
forms which I refer to Q. texana. 
In the paper in which he described Omerens texana BUCKLEY 
described another Texas oak: 
_QuERcus SHumarpu Buckley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1860. 
444.—Quercus rubra var. texana Buckley, loc. cit. 1881. 123-— 
This is a large tree of low woods, with grayish or grayish brown 
