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e, straight, conical, hispid prickles with glabrous sharp apices. Ripe fruit unknown 

 Xuts three, densely rufous-pubescent. 



Borneo in Sarawak,— Beccari (P. B. 261 o.) 



Known only by Signor Beccans specimens, none of which havo male spikes or ripe 

 fruit. A well-marked species, quite dis'inct from any other known C ><tuop. . I ha\ 

 dedicated it to Mr. Mottley, an excellent coll. tor in the M la van countries win* 

 services to botany have been but scantily recoiriiist I. 



Plate 86. — C. Mottlcgana, King. Branch with spikes of young fruit,— natural si 

 1 , vertical section of fruit : 2. snines : enlarned. 



6. Castanopsis Tungurrut, A DC. in Seem. Journ. Bot. (1HC:>) 182; /'rod. xvi. ii. 110 



Young branches and inflorescence minutrly furfuraceous-tomentose. L$av< > cori- 

 aceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, acute or acuminate, entire ; the base rounded or slightly 

 acute; upper surface shining, glabrous; lower minutely pubescent, adpressod on uerv» 

 and midrib; nerves 12 to 16 pairs, prominent beneath; length of blade 45 in. to 8 

 in., breadth 1*75 in. to 3 in.; petiole *5 in. Spikes about as long as the leaves, 

 solitary, axillary, or in small lax panicles; the female spikes few, female flowers s-litarv. 

 Ripe fruit as in C. Javanica, except that the spines are longer.— 21iq. Ann. Muu Lug, 

 Bat. i. 120.— Castanea Tungurrut, Bl. Bijdr. 525; Fl. Jav. Cupul. 42. t. 22 ; Mus. Hot 

 Lugd. Bat. i. 283; Miq. PL Jungh. 13; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1. 866; Suppl. 353. 



Java and other parts of the Malay Archipelago, at elevations of from 4,000 to 



6,000 feet. 



This comes near C. Jammed, A. DC, but is readily distinguished in the herbarium 



by the olivaceous, not rufous, tint of the pubescence of its adult leaves, and by the 



greater number of their nerves. The plant issued by Wallich under this name (No 



2763 of his Catalogue) is not Tungurrut, Bl., but a di-tinct species which 1 have 



named after Wallich. Kurz's O. argentea, var. Tungurrut, is simply argentca. 



Plate 87. — C. Tungurrut, A. DC. I, young twig with male spikes; 2, young female 

 spikes ; 3, ripe fruit, — all of natural size. 



7. Castaxopsis Javanica, A. DC. in Seem. Journ. Bot. i. (1863) 182 ; Prod. xvi. ii. 



Ill (cum var. montana). 



Young shoots covered with minute rufous pubescence. Leaves coriaceous, ovate- 

 lanceolate °or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, entire; the base acute; upper surface 

 glabrous; lower minutely fulvous or rufous often cinnamoneous-pubescent, ultimately 

 becoming glabrous or sub glabrous ; nerves 9 to 12 pairs, bold and prominent beneath. 

 Spikes androgynous, minutely fulvous or rufous-tomentose, erect, in axillary or terminal 

 fascicles or small panicles longer than the leaves; the male spikes numerous; femah 

 flowers in threes on the lower part of only a few spikes. Ripe fruit sub-globular, from 

 1-5 to 2-5 in. in diameter; the involucre thick- walled, woody, densely covered with 

 tufts of simple or branching, radiating, curved, subulate spines, -25 to -5 in. long, with 

 pubescent bodies and glabrous apices. Nut* 1 to 3, ovoid-globose, with one side 

 flattened, densely rufous -tomentose.-J/^. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 120; Hook.fi. Fl. Br. 



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