Quercus 132.5 



Coutinho describes and figures the leaves of supposed hybrids between this 

 species and Q. pedunculata and Q. Toza, found near Coimbra and in other localities 

 in Portugal. 



Cultivation 



This tree, which is very rare in cultivation, was introduced in 1835, when plants 

 were raised in the Horticultural Society's garden at Chiswick, from acorns gathered 

 in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar. These seedlings were named Q. australis, Link, 

 and in their juvenile stage, according to Loudon's figure, closely resembled specimens 

 gathered at Cintra in their foliage. A tree on the lawn near the gate of the Director's 

 Office, Kew, grafted at about 3 ft., which measures about 35 ft. in height and 5 ft. 9 

 in. in girth, and ripened acorns in 1909, bears smaller leaves, somewhat intermediate 

 between var. Broteri and vax. faginea. At Lyndon Hall, Rutland, a low tree, about 6 

 ft. in girth, which recently died, bore similar foliage. Another tree at Kew, in the 

 oak collection, near the bank of the Thames, about 30 ft. in height, and wide-branching 

 from near the base, has much larger leaves, almost glabrescent in autumn, and is 

 probably one of the forms of var. Broteri. (H. J. E.) 



QUERCUS INFECTORIA 



Quercus infedoria, Olivier, Voy. Emp. Othm. i. 252, tt. 14, 15 (i8oi)j Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. 



iii. 1928 (1838); J. D. Hooker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 383 (1861). 

 QuercMS lusitanica, sub-species orientalis, De CandoUe, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 18 (1864). 

 Quercus lusitanica, Boissier, Fl. Orient, iv. 1166 (1879) (not Lamarck). 



This Species, which is the representative of Q. lusitanica in the Levant, includes 

 a great number of forms, presenting the same range of variation in the foliage as 

 the Peninsular species ; and differs ^ mainly from it in being less pubescent on the 

 branchlets and leaves. The typical form is a shrub or small tree, with very scaly 

 bark. Young branchlets tomentose or glabrescent. Leaves coriaceous, deciduous 

 late in the season, ovate, oblong, or obovate-oblong, about 2 in. long and i in. broad ; 

 rounded or occasionally acute at the apex ; unequal at the base ; margin wrinkled, with 

 about six pairs of sinuate teeth, with or without mucros ; upper surface light green, 

 shining, glabrous ; lower surface pale green, with scattered stellate hairs, glabrescent 

 towards the end of the season •, petiole \ in. long, glabrescent. Fruit similar to that 

 of Q. lusitanica. 



1, Var. Boissieri, De Candolle, loc. cit. 



Quercus Boissieri, Reuter, in Boissier, Diag. Ser.l 12, p. 119 (1842). 



Leaves oblong, or obovate-oblong, larger than in the type, up to 3 or 4 in. long, 

 with more numerous acute mucronate teeth. 



2. Var. petiolaris, De Candolle, loc. cit. Leaves oblong, almost entire, or with 



1 Some specimens from Asia Minor have leaves tomentose beneath, and are indistinguishable from Q. lusitanica. 



