N. O. CUPULIFEHjE. 
1215 
nut fin. long, conico-ovoid, canescent, brown when ripe. 
(Kanjilal.) 
C7««:-The acorns form the medicine known in the 
Punjab bazars as balut. They 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 mduhas. 
(Stewart.) 
1200. Q. lamellosa f Smith, h.f.b.i., v. 006. 
Vern .: — Shalshi, pharat-singhali, budgrat (Nepal); Buk 
(Lepcha). 
Habitat: — Eastern Himalaya; from Nepal to Bhotan, 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. pachyphylla, Kurz, h.f.b.i., v. 608. 
Vern. : — Bara katus, Sungre katus (Nepal) ; Hlosiri, Kasbok 
(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 Jin ; 
secondry 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.) 
