of cast sorsi 



05 



Himalaya, at 



up to 4,000 feet, from Nepal to Bhotan, very ooiiinion 



especially between 1,000 and 3,000 feet; Assam Range; I'hittagung Hills. 



Plate 83. — C. indica, A. DC. 1, flowering-branch j 2, spika of younj truit ; 3, spike 

 of nearly ripe fruit, — of natural size. 



2. CA8TAH0P8I8 Clarkei, King in Hook, f I. Fl. Br. J /id. v. 6'2 :. 



Brancblets minutely tomentose when young, afterwards glabrous. Leatm elliptic* 

 oblong or lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, coarsely serrate almost t» 

 the base, pale and puberulous beneath; upper surface dull, glabrous; nerves 1<> to 12 

 pairs; length of blade 3 5 in. to 4*5 in , breadth 15 in. to 1*7.3 in.; petiole '8 in. Mtk 

 spikes in lax, scanty, slender panicles about as long as the laves, mfoii -pubescent. 

 Female spikes slender, solitary. Ripe involucres ovoid, about 1 in. Ion::, densely covered 

 with long, slender, weak, rather straight, rufous-pubt -cent spines. Nuts broadly ovoid, 

 solitary, deciduously adpressed-pubescent. 



Bhotan-Himalaya, at Kalimpong, altitude 5,000 feet, — Clarke; Shan Hills, Bunnah, — 



Collett. 



This species has been collected only by Mr. C. 13. Clarke and General CohVtt. It 



forms a connecting link between C. iudica and C. tribuloide$ 3 var. ferox. The pah 

 pubescent under surfaces of the leaves and the slender inflorescence are its 1 *st diagnostii 



marks. 



Plate 83 bis.— C. Clarkei, King. 1, branch with panicle of male flowers; 2 & 3 



spikes of young fruit; 4, mature fruit, — all of natural :e. 



3. Castanopsis hystrix, A. DC. in Seem. Journ. Bot. i. ( 1 863) 182; Prod. xvi. ii. Ill 



Young shoots and rachises of inflorescence rufous-pubescent. Leaves cmi i< >os 

 lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, acuminate, remotely serrate in the upper three-fourths, 

 sometimes entire when old; the base obtuse or sub-acute; upper surface glabrous; t\u 

 under densely covered with minute ferruginous, flocculent tomentum, often glabreseent 

 when old; nerves 7 to 9 pairs (10 to 13 in Malayan specimens), bold and prominent 

 on the lower, impressed on the upper surface; length of blade 3 to 5 in., breadth H 

 ._ to 2 in. ; petiole about -5 in. ; spikes stout, sub-pendulous or spreading, in small Sub- 

 terminal or axillary panicles ; the male numerous, the female spikes few. Females fl 



in threes, covered by numerous small, scarious, pubescent bracteoles. Ewe 



m. 



olucr 



less 4-an-led, about 2 in. across (1 to 15 in. in Malayan specimen ); the 



more or less *-aii£ 



i 



but 



more 



cr 



mvolucre thick-walled, densely covered with simple or branching, interlacm subulate 

 rigid, straight spines, from -25 to nearly -5 in. long, with pubescent bodi * 



fabrous points. Nuts 3. 2, or sometimes only 1 (by abortion), ovoid 

 3 ano-led sub-adpressed-pubescent (the hairs retroversed), about 5 id. Iong.-.V*?. Am 

 Mus! Lugd. Bat. I 119; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. G20.-Cast«nea hystrix and ru/acen; 



Hook. fil. and Thorns. MSS. . 



Sikkim Himalaya, at elevations of from 5,000 to 8,000 feet, common ; Khasia Hills at 

 elevations of from 2,000 to 3,000 feet-Griffith (4445), Ifooke ; Perak, at elevations of 4,500 

 to 4 600 feet,— KM* Collector (6975 and 7751). 



