Quercus 1261 



lobes of the leaves, but differ in the shape of the leaves and in the characters of the 

 fruit. The five seedlings, raised in the Exeter Nursery, were named by Loudon :— 



1. Var. suberosa, Loudon. Smaller trees, with very corky bark, raised in 1792. 

 Stipules short and quickly deciduous. Leaves (Plate 339, Fig. 64) smaller than 

 in the original Lucombe oak, 2 to 2\ in. long, i in. broad ; ovate ; broad, rounded, 

 and unequal at the base ; acute at the apex, white tomentose beneath, usually with 

 five to seven pairs of rounded or sinuate sharply mucronate teeth ; some of the leaves, 

 however, with fewer teeth, and one to three deep sinuses extending half-way to the 

 midrib. Fruit ripening in the second year ; cupule turbinate, with short broad grey 

 tomentose scales, reddish at the tips, mostly erect. 



2. Var. heterophylla, Loudon. Raised about 1830. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 3 to 4 in. long, i to \\ in. broad, acute at the apex, irregularly and deeply lobed, with 

 the middle part of the leaf occasionally reduced to a narrow fringe on each side of the 

 midrib. Cupules of the fruit turbinate ; most of the scales short, ovate, ending in red 

 acuminate tips ; a few towards the margin of the cupule, linear-lanceolate, irregularly 

 erect, and reflexed. 



3. Var. crispa, Loudon, who calls it the new Lucombe oak. This was raised in 

 1792, and has very corky bark. Leaves subevergreen, falling in March and April, 

 similar to those of Q. Lucombeana, but smaller in size and wrinkled in margin, 2 to 3 

 in. long, oblong-ovate, acute at the apex, unequal at the base, with six to eight pairs 

 of acute triangular mucronate teeth ; densely white tomentose beneath. Cupule scales 

 reddish at the tips ; those towards the margin long and directed upwards ; those below 

 short, some appressed, others reflexed. Acorn scarcely depressed at the apex, which 

 is tipped with a short conical tomentose umbo. 



4. 5. Var. incisa and var. dentata, Loudon, with large leaves, more deeply 

 lobed than those of the preceding forms, are scarcely distinguishable from the original 

 Lucombe oak, except in having more corky bark. Var. incisa was raised in 1 792, 

 and var. dentata about 1830. Q. Cerris, var. cana major, Loudon, op. cit. 1849, the 

 origin of which is unknown, is very similar to these varieties. 



In addition to the original Lucombe oak and its selected seedlings there remain 

 a few forms the history of which is unknown, but which have undoubtedly arisen 

 from the same parentage of Q. Cerris and Q. Stiber. It is most convenient to name 

 these as vars. of Q. Lucombeana. 



6. V'ax. fulhamensis. 



Quercus Cerris, var. Julhamensts, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii. 1850 (1838). 

 Quercus Cerris, var. dentata, Watson, Dend. Brit. ii. t. 93 (1825). 

 Quercus hispanica, a, chine de Gibraltar, Lamarck,^ Encyc. i. 723 (1783). 

 Quercus Pseudosuber, var. gibraltarica, De Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 44 (1864). 



Trees with less vigorous branches than Q. Lucombeana, forming a rounded head of 

 foliage ; bark moderately corky. Branchlets grey tomentose. Stipules around the 



1 Lamarck applied the name Q. hispanica not to a Spanish oak, but to three trees cuhivated at the Trianon, which were 

 specimens of the Lucombe, Fulham, and Turner's oaks. The first of these was erroneously supposed to grow wild in the 

 neighbourhood of Gibraltar. 



