Castanopsis. | CXL. CUPULIFERZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 623 
C. tribuloides, 4. DC. l. c. C. armata, Don Prodr. 56 (not of Romb.). 
Quercus tribuloides, Smith in Rees Cyclop. xxiv. No. 13. Q. acuta, Herb. Ham. 
Castanea tribuloides, Wall. Cat. 2765; Pl. As. Rar. ii. 6; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 
480. C. microcarpa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3735 (by error 2735). 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; common from Kumaon eastwards to Assam, the 
KnasrA Mrs, and MUNNIPORE, alt. 4—7000 ft. 
VAR. longispina, King mss. ; leaves usually larger and broader but sometimes 
ovate-lanceolate often 5-7 in. and elliptic-oblong pubescent or glabrous beneath, 
nerves 10-12 pairs, involucres larger 1 in. diam., spines very long and stout often 
iin, nuts 1-3. Castanea tribuloides, var. ferox, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 480.—Sikkim, 
Assam, Khasia and Munnipore, alt. 1—4000 ft. . 
. VAR. feroz, King mss.; leaves ovate-lanceolate entire rarely serrate, involucres 
3 in. diam., spines short about } in. stout spreading, nuts 1-3.—Castanopsis ferox, 
Spach Hist. PI. Phan, xi. 180. Quercus ferox, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 689; Wight Ic. 
t. 218.—Common in Sikkim, the Khasia Mts., &c., alt. 4-7000 ft. 
Var. echidnocarpa, King mss. ; leaves small elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate 
caudate often serrate above the middle glabrous, nerves 6-10 pairs, involucres much 
smaller, hoary spines fewer very short often reduced to compound tubercles, nut 
solitary. Castanopsis echidnocarpa, 4. D C. in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1863, 182; Prodr. xvi. 
n. 112. Castanea echidnocarpa, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 4 T. Quercus ? caudata, 
te in Wall. Cat. 2787.—Bhotan, Khasia, Assam, Munnipore and Burma, alt. 
7000 ft. 
Var, Wattii, King mss. ; involucre small thick almost woody densely clothed with 
very short branched often rufous spines, inner surface rufous-villous, nuts 2-3.— 
"nnipore, alt. 2000 ft., Watt. Khasia Hills (at Maobleh), Clarke, alt. 4000 ft. 
Al. C. Clarkei, King mss.; branches slender tomentose, leaves 
elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate rarely -oblanceolate acuminate serrate nearly 
e base pale and puberulous beneath, nerves 16-18 pairs, fruiting 
8 very slender, involucres globose, (young) spines slender. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; at Kalempoong, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. . . 
b monæcious tree, 120 ft., at once distinguished from all states of C. tribuloides 
y the very pale many-nerved leaf, serrated always from 2 or more of its length. 
he leaves'are puberulous, almost white beneath, the petiole lin. Flowering spikes 
Very slender, 
Spike 
B. Involucre subglobose to subovoid, more or less depressed; walls with 
Tansverse tubercled zones. Nuts usually more than one. 
. 12, C. sumatrana, 4. DC. in Seem. Journ. Dot, 1863, 182; Prodr. 
evi. i1. 113; leaves oblong- or elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate 
entire glabrous base acute, nerves 10-15 pairs, involucres large sub-ovoid or 
‘globose more or less lobulate or angled tubercled in wavy interrupted zones. 
p tifica, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, 200. Castanea inermis, Lindl. in 
Fall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 6; Cat. 2762; A. DC. Prodr. 116; Kurz For Fl. i 
H . €. glomerata, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 283. Quercus glomerata, W all. 
FLU 2791 (not of Roxrb.). Callwocarpus sumatrana, Miquel Pl. Jungh. 13 ; 
ded. Bat. 1. i. 868 (excl. syn.) ; Suppl. 359; Ann. Mus. i. 118. ; 2 alt 
0-5000 po BURMA, at the Amber Mines, Grififh (Kew Distrib. 4471). F ERAF, ait. 
(K ft., King’s Collector. PENANG, SINGAPORE, Wallich, &e. Maracca, Griff 
ew Distrib, 4442, 4470), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1457 ).— DISTRIB. Borneo. 
ped large tree, Leaves thinly coriaceous, 4-9 in.; petiole ł-1 in. Spikes tong. 
youn’ hoary. Znvolucre 1-11 in. long, bursting irregularly, walls very thick, 
ng depressed. Nuts 1-3, subsilky. 
18. o. Hullettii, King mss.; leaves elliptic or oblong-lanceolate acute 
L. v. 88 
