624 CXL. CUPULIFERZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Castanopsis. 
or subaeute entire, glabrous and shining above, rufous and puberulous 
beneath, nerves 16-18 pairs glabrescent prominent beneath, involucres sub- 
globose obscurely angled grooved vertically and with wavy zones of tubercles 
-valved. 
SINGAPORE and Perak; Hullett, King’s Collector. Maracca, Maingay (Kew 
Distrib. 1459, 1463).—Disrris. Riou and Billiton Islands. au. 
A large tree. Leaves coriaceous, 5-9 by 2-3 in., base acute or rounded, midrib 
strong; petiole 3-1} in. Jnvolucre lj in. diam., often depressed, or with the base 
contracted. Nuts 2-4, sparsely hairy. 
C. Involucre subglobose, flattened on one side, indehiscent, adnate to 
the nut, flattened surface smooth, the rest clothed with short pris- 
matic or patelliform spines or tubercles. 
14. C. rhamnifolia, A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 113; leaves elliptic-ovate 
or oblong obtusely acuminate entire glabrous or midrib puberulous, nerves 
7-8 pairs, involucres ovoid flattened on one side thick-walled furfuraceous, 
flat side smooth, convex sides with conical tomentose spines, nut solitary. 
Quercus rhamnifolia, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 853. Castanea rhamnifolia, 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 481, Calleocarpus rhamnifolia, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. 
Suppl. 353; Ann. Mus.}i. 118; Scheffer Obs. Phyt. iii. 95. 
Burma, Kurz. SINGAPORE, Cantley.—Distr1s. Sumatra, Banca. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, nerves slightly raised beneath; petiole iin. Tnvolucre 
hoary-tomentose, about 1 in. long; spines } in., conical, spinous tipped. Nu 
flattened, on one side. 
15. ©. Wallichii, King mss.; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate entire glabrous above, puberulous or hoary beneath, nerves 6- 
pairs, involucres ovoid flattened on one side indebiscent thick-wall 
rounded surface covered with flattened pyramidal hooked pubescent spines 
flattened surface less so, nut solitary. Castanea Tungurrut, Wall. Cat. 
2763 (not of Blume). 
PENANG, Wallich. SINGAPORE, Cantley. PERAK, King’s Collector. MALACCA, 
Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4444), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1465). es 
Leaves coriaceous, 2-33 in., base acute, sometimes flocculent beneath, nery 
raised beneath; petiole 2 in. Involueres 11 in. long, walls thick. Nut depre 
globose. 7 
16. C. nephelioides, King mss.; leaves elliptic oblong or subobovate 
obtusely acuminate entire glabrous above sparsely furfuraceous benea : 
nerves 9-12 pairs, involucres obovoid flattened on one side thin crustaceou 
covered with patelliform simple short obtuse tubercles. 
Perak, Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
A tree, 30-60 ft. Leaver thinly coriaceous, 23-5 in.; petiole } in, Involucrés 
lin. long, adnate to the solitary nuts, puberulous. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
CASTANOPSIS?; branches stout dark, leaves 6-10 by 3-4 in. very iip 
oblong obtuse or acute glabrous entire brown-green and polished above si "dictan 
pale brown beneath with 12 pairs of strong spreading arched nerves and rather anded, 
cross-nervules, midrib and nerves slender and raised above, base acute Or ro mpl 
petiole 1—3 in., fem. spikes as long as the leaves or longer very stout tomentose ston 
or sparingly branched, involucres tomentose 1l-fld.; young fruiting spikes los very 
woody, involucres sessile 3-3 in. diam. globose covered with tomentose I it). — 
thick spines. Quercus Jenkinsii, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1812 (ewe fru 
