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INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES 



This bears a considerable 



emblance to some of the forms of C. tribuloides 



DC 



with ferruginous pubescence, but is distinguished 



threes and (in the Indian specimens 



from them by its female flowers being 

 by the involucres containing more than one 



nut: also by the flocculent pubescenc 



of the under 



ly grows below 6,000 feet, and never so low as eehidnocarp 



face of its leaves. In Sikkim 



i and armata (the 



this 



ferruginous varieties of tribuloides). The only specimens 



have seen were collected by Griffith (No. 4445) and by Sir J. D. Hooker 



from the Khasia Hills which I 



Recent 



collect 



from the Khasia (e.g 



Mr. Gustav Mann's) do not contain this species 



Th 



species appears to be rather common 



at elevations of from 4,500 to 5,000 feet in the 



central chain of hills which forms the backbone of the Malay 



Peninsul 



Sp 



from thence h 



entire leaves and rather smaller fruits than Himalayan specimens 



and the fruits, moreover, often contain only 

 possibly belong to a different species 



nut. 



The Malayan trees may, howe 





Plate 84. — C. hystrix, A. DC 



1. branch with inflorescence of 



female and many 



male spikes ; 2. branch with spike of immature fruit ; 3, ripe fruit 

 flowers, enlarged. 



all of natural size ; 4, mal 



4 



c 



King in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 620 



in 



on 



Young shoots minutely fulvous-tomentose. Adult leaves coriaceous, varyiug 

 the same branch from oblong, ovate-oblong to broadly elliptic, sometimes obliq 



shap 



the 



apex acute in the narrower form 



blunt but mucronate in the broader; upper surface 



glab 



when i 



? puberulous 



dult; under surface puberulous to glabrous 



the midrib and nerves 



both surfaces 



10 to 15 pairs, stout, prominent beneath 



condary nerves 

 petiole *25 to 



bold, transverse ; length of blade 4*5 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 5 in. ; 



75 in., stout, 



tomentose. Male fl< 



in robust, spread 



terminal 





tomentose panicles. Fruit sessile, globular 



the 



volucre indistinctly ridged and densely 



covered with simple, sharp, stout, pubescent, radiating spines 



» 



about *4 in. 



long. 



Nut 



gle, depressed-globular, adpressed-pubescent, *5 in. long and *75 in. broad 



Cas tanea 



diversifola, Kurz. For. Flora Burmah 



479 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 



44. pt. 2. 198 



Burmah 



the Martaban Hills, at elevations of from 3,500 to 6,000 feet 



K\ 



Brandts 



w 



A species distinguished from all others by its variable leaves. Its nearest ally is the 



Bornean species C. Mottleyana, King. 



Plate 85 A.— C. diversifolia, Kurz. 1, branch with panicle; 2, leaf from another branch; 



3, ripe fruit,— all of natural size. 









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5. Castanopsis Mottleyana, nov. spec 



Young shoots densely and minutely ferruginous-tomentose 



Le 



coriaceous, ovate 



oblong to obovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, entire; the base acute; upper surface rugose 

 glabrous, except the pubescent midrib; under surface fer ' * " J 



pubescent 



the midrib 



and 11 to 15 pairs 



of prominent nerves tomentose, transverse venation distinct; length 



of blade. 7 to 9 in., breadth 3 in. 



to 3-5 



petiole *5 



stout, tomentose 



Female 



spikes 

 Young 



solitary 

 invok 



axillary 



about as long as the leaves; the rachis stout, tuberculate 



sessile, depressed-globose, densely covered with 



umer 



■j 



stout, 



