N. O. CUPULIFEILE. 1215 



nut |in. long, conico-ovoid, canescent, brown when ripe. 

 (Kanjilal.) 



Uses:— The acorns form the medicine known in the 

 Punjab bazars as balrit. The} 7 are given as a diuretic in 

 gonorrhoea, and also as an astringent in indigestion, diarrhoea 

 especially of children, and in asthma. Before being adminis- 

 tered, they are usually buried in the earth to remove their 

 bitter principle, then washed and lastly ground ; dose 3 mdshds. 

 (Stewart.) 



1200. Q. lamellosa, Smith, h.f.b.i., v. 606. 



Vern. : — Shalshi, pharat-singhali, budgrat (Nepal); Buk 

 (Lepcha). 



Habitat: — Eastern Himalaya; from Nepal to Bbotan, the 

 Naga and Daphla Hills, Manipur. 



A very large, evergreen tree ; wood very hard and heavy. 

 Buds silky, young shoots with tawny, deciduous pubescence. 

 Leaves elongate-elliptic, acute at both ends, sharply serrate to 

 near the base, upper side glabrous, underside glaucous, with 

 deciduous pubesence while young ; blade 8-18, petiole 1-2 

 in long, secondary nerves 18-25 pairs, straight, impressed on the 

 upper, very prominent on the under-side. Flowers sessile on 

 short spikes ; peduncles~thick ; cup very large, up to 3in. across, 

 woody, with 10 thin, broad, loose lamellae, enclosing the greater 

 part of the nut. (Brandis.) 



Use : — The bark and acorns are used in medicine. (Watt.) 



1201. Q. paehyphylla, Kuvz, h.f.b.l, v. 608. 



Vern. : — Bara katus, Sungre katus (Nepal) ; Hlosiri, Kashok 

 (Lepcha). 



Habitat: — Sikkim ; Manipur. 



A large ever- green tree, leaves elliptic-lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, glabrous above, underside pale, with minute stellate 

 hairs ; mid-rib and nerves glabrous ; blade 5-8, petiole £in ; 

 secondly nerves 8-10 pairs, impressed above, arching and 

 anastomosing under the margin ; spikes sometimes androgynous. 

 Cups l|-2in. across, always confluent, forming large, irregularly 

 shaped masses, more than half the nut enclosed in the cup. 

 Nuts glabrous, shining, nearly globose. (Brandis.) 



