QUERCUS GEMINATA 11. sp.
A shrub or small tree, 2-5 meters tall, with a maximum trunk diameter of about 15 cm. Leaves narrowly oblong, elliptic, or ob long-oblanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, entire, obtuse or apiculate, strongly revolute, mostly gradually narrowed at the base, glab rous and parchment-like above, finely tomentose and conspicu ously rugose by the prominent nerves beneath ; petioles 2-6 mm.
long; flowers not seen ; acorns usually 2 at the end of a pedun cle, which varies from 1-4 cm. in length ; cups turbinate, 1 cm. broad, tomentose, the bracts appressed, slightly thickened near the base of the cup, fringed at the edge ; nuts ovoid or narrowly oval, 1-1.7 cm. long, twice or thrice as long as the cups.
Sandy soil, chiefly in the scrub, Florida. Flowers in spring and matures its fruit in the fall.
Mr. Nash, who collected and observed this plant during the seasons of 1894 and 1895, assures me that it is perfectly distinct from its relatives. This is doubtless a fact, and both the foliage and fruit furnish excellent characters. The very prominently ru gose lower leaf-surfaces and the strongly revolute leaf-margins have no parallel in Quercus Virginiana. The acorns are always borne in pairs at the ends of short stout peduncles ; the turbinate cups with their constricted bases are diagnostic.