Castanopsis.] CXL. CUPULIFERE. (J. D. Hooker.) 625 
Upper Burma, Lamoom and banks of Mogoung River, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4460, 
4463).—See at end of Quercus for other plants included under Q. Jenkinsii. Wallich, 
No. 9145, from Tavoy, resembles this a good deal, but its nerves are more numerous, 
fem. spikes more slender, and it is from a very different region. 
De CORYLUS, Linn, 
Deciduous moncecious trees or shrubs, flowering before leafing. Leaves 
alternate, doubly serrate, plicately penninerved. Male fl. solitary in the 
bracts of a many-fld. pendulous spike, 2-bracteolate ; perianth 0; stamens 
4-8, filaments forked, separating the anther-cells. Fem. fl. in pairs in the 
upper bracts of a minute few-fld. many-bracteate spike or head, bracteole 
solitary 3-partite; perianth superior, limb annular, toothed ; ovary 2-celled, 
cells l-ovuled; style-arms linear. Wut large, woody or bony, enclosed in 
the greatly enlarged coriaceous bracts, l-seeded.— Species 7, of North tem- 
perate regions. 
l. C. ferox, Wall. Pl. As. Rav. i. 77, t. 87; Cat. 2797; leaf-buds lan- 
ceolate silky, leaves oblon g or ovate-oblong acuminate very finely laciniately 
serrate, fruiting bracts tomentose spinescent and lobed. Brand. For. FL. 
494; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 390; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 129. 
I DESTRA and Eastern HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft., 
A small tree; shoots puberulous. Zeares 4-5 in., young pubescent, old puberu- 
lous beneath ; nerves 10-12 pairs; petiole 3—} in., hairy. Male spikes clustered, 
1-2in.; braets obovate, acute, densely villous; stamens 4-6, subsessile ; anther-cells 
Contiguous, tips hairy. Fem. fl. subcapitate; spines of invol. $ in. long, slender, 
branched. — Nu/s in nodding clusters, 2-4 in. diam., of 3-6 each, ovoid or globose, 
Very hard, 3 in. diam. 
2. C. Colurna, Linn. Sp. Pl. 999; leaf-buds short rounded, leaves 
obovate acuminate lobulate and toothed, base cordate, bracts velvety 
Unarmed outer fruiting laciniate inner longer sheathing ribbed cleft into 
Tote glandular-hairy lobes. Brand. For. Fl. 494; Gamble Man. Ind. 
Lim’. 390; 4. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 131; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1176. C. 
eera, Wou. Cat. 2798. C. Jacquemontii, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 
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~ WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt, 5500-10,500 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon. 
ASTRIB, Asia Minor, Thrace and Hungary. ; 
membre gregarious tree, 40-50 ft. Leaves 5-8 by 23-6 in., glabrous or near y s0, 
spik ranous, nerves 10-12 pairs, terminating the lobes; petiole 1-13 in. 1 ale 
on the clustered, l-2 in., very stout ; bracts obovate, acute with about 8 anther-ce 
€ midrib, their filaments variously connate. Nut globose, very hard. 
6. CARPINUS, Tourn. 
atop eiduons trees or shrubs, monoecious. Leaves alternate, serrate, pli- 
braci penninerved, Male fl. in lateral pendulous spikes, bracts ovate, 
b reto es 0; perianth 0; stamens 3 or 4 ona hairy torus adnate to the 
Spikes filaments 2-fid separating the anther-cells. Fem. fl. in erect termina 
osi bracts foliaceous, bracteoles 2; perianth limb minute, superior, 
ei ed; ovary 2-celled, cells l-ovuled; style-arms 2 long, stigmatose on 
ea face. Nut ribbed, enclosed in the base of the elongate foliaceous 
of N end bracteoles, Cotyledons fleshy, enclosing the radicle.—Species 9, 
' emp. regions, ; 
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