. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. le; scales of cupule loosely imbricated,tomentellous, all erect and short, the lower and intermediate ovate tooblong, acute or apiculate, the uppermost linear, scarcely longer thanthe others; nut once and a half as long as cupule — Middle zone ofLebanon and Antilebanou. ^. q. iSgilops, L. 5 Valo- Fig. 335. nia Oak. 5 to 15; trunk stout;comus spherical. Leaves some-what leathery, late in falling,petioled, glabrescent and glossyat upper surface, tomentellous-canescent at
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. le; scales of cupule loosely imbricated,tomentellous, all erect and short, the lower and intermediate ovate tooblong, acute or apiculate, the uppermost linear, scarcely longer thanthe others; nut once and a half as long as cupule — Middle zone ofLebanon and Antilebanou. ^. q. iSgilops, L. 5 Valo- Fig. 335. nia Oak. 5 to 15; trunk stout;comus spherical. Leaves some-what leathery, late in falling,petioled, glabrescent and glossyat upper surface, tomentellous-canescent at lower, rounded-truncate to cordate at base, ovateto oblong, unequally coarse-Serrate, teeth acuminate ormucronate. Acorns solitary or2-3 in a cluster, sessile; cupuleglobular, .02 to .04 in diameter,scales thick, tomentellous, ovate-lanceolate, the upper or allelongated, spreading-recurved,the nut 2-3 times as long ascupule — Common to middlemountain zones. The cupules ofthis species are largely used intanning, and form an important article of commerce. Var. Itliaburensi§, Boiss. IuQ^nq^ Irocid-ovate, teeth shorter. Acorn of Quercus ^gilops. than in typeAmanus. All the scales recurved — Galilee; Gilead; Banias: Var. Pj-ranii, Boiss. Later leaves more or less deeply lobed tolyrate, the terminal lobe broader, rounded, cordate at base. Lowerscales of cupule ovate, erect, the upper linear-lanceolate, recurved —Moutli of the Pyramus. 8, q. Look, Ky. 5 A medium sized tree or shrub. Leavesshort - petioled, rigid, wavy, stellate - puberulent at under surface,coarsely crenate-dentate, teeth mucronate. Acorns short-peduncled,solitary or twin; cupule somewhat top-shaped, scales tomentellous, thelowest ovate, somewhat appressed, the intermediate ovate-lanceolate,inUexed at tip, the upper elongated, linear, hooked-rcflexed — Spring— Flunks of Hermon near Basheya; Wadi-el-Harir; Ilauran; WadiIbrisah (Lebanon); Amanus. SALICINEiS. (WILLOW FAMILY.) 7^1 9. Q. Liibani, Oliv. 5 ^^^ ^
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