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IJS T DO.MALAYAN SPECIES 



Ind. v. 620. — Casianea Javanica, BL Bijdr. 525; Fl. Jav. Cupul. cum var. montana, 44. 

 t. 23; Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 283; Miq. PL Jungh. 13; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1. 867; Kurz 

 For. Fl. Burm. ii. 479. — C. Jammed, BL, var. m on tan a ; Fl. Jav. Cup. 44. t. 24. — Castanea 

 montana, BL Bijdr. 526; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 1. 867. — C. costata, A. DC. Prod. xvi. 

 ii. 110; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 1. 120; var. Bancana, Scheff. Obs. Phyt. ii. 

 50.— Castanea costata, BL Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 284; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 1. 866.— C. 

 trisperma, Scheff. Obs. Phyt. ii. 50. — Castanea brevicuspis, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 1. 8Q3. 

 C. spectabilis, Miq. 1. c. 866; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 120. 



Java, Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo, Malacca, — Maingay, 1461 (mixed with acorns of Quer 

 Sundaica, Bl.) ; Perak, — King's Collector and Father Scortechini— common ; Lower Burmah. 

 Parish (once collected) ; Penang, — Phillips; Singapore, — Cantley. 



Blutne does not appear to have had a very clear idea of his species C. Javanica, 

 for his figure of it does not tangibly differ from his figure of C. argentea. And of his 

 species C. costata he had never seen fruit. I have carefully examined the material in 

 his herbarium at Leiden. It is very scanty indeed, and I can quite understand how, 

 with such poor specimens to work upon, he arrived at rather dubious results. I can 

 see no specific difference between the type specimens of his Javanica and costata; nor 

 can I see how Scheffer's C. trisperma is to be distinguished from Blume's C. Javanica. 

 Scheffer trusts to the three nuts as a diagnostic mark of trisperma, because Blume 

 describes his Javanica as having only one. But some of Blume's own specimens show 



the nuts are in threes. Miquel himself reduces (in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 120) his 

 species brevicuspis and spectabilis to costata. 



Plate 88.— a Javanica, A. DC. 1, flowering-branch; 2 & 3, leaves of different forms • 



that 



ripe fruit showing the smooth patch,— all of natural 



8. Castanopsis argentea, A. DC. Seem. Journ. Bot i. (1863) 182; Prod. xvi. ii. 



112 (cum. var. Martabanica). 



Young shoots glabrous, glaucous, lenticellate. Leaves membranous, lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate or acute, entire; the base 

 acute or sub-acute ; both surfaces glabrous ; the lower pale and sub-silvery or glaucous ; 

 nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curving, thin, but prominent beneath; length of blade 4 to 8'5 

 In., breadth L25 to 3 in.; petiole -5 in. to -7b in. Flowers on stout, fulvous-pubescent, 

 solitary, axillary spikes, or in lax, terminal panicles shorter than the leaves. Female 

 spikes few ; the flowers solitary. Bipe fruit nearly globular, about 2 in. in diameter ; the 

 involucre densely clothed with numerous tufts of branching, radiating, curving, subulate 



spines, -3 in. to -4 in. long with cinereous -pubescent bodies and pale glabrous apices. Nut 



ally single, sub-globular, smooth, and adpressed-pubescent, except the large attached 

 surface which is rough and glabrous, about 1 in. in diameter.—J%. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. i. 120; Hook, fit Fl. Br. Ind. v. 621.— Castanea argentea, Bl. Bijdr. 525; Fl. Jav 

 Cupul. 40. t. 21; Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 282; Miq. PL Jungh. 13;FL Ind. Bat. i. 1. 867;' 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 479; var. tungurrut, Kurz (not of Bl.) I.e.— Castanea Martabanica, 

 Wall. Cat. 2764; Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 6. t. 107. 



Java, Borneo, and other islands of the Malay Archipelago, at elevations up to 4,000 feet ; 

 Hill ranges of Burmah,— Kurz, Parish, Anderson; Tenasserim,— ife//*?r (4443) 



This species is closely allied to C. Javanica, BL, with which it is often confused 



collections. It may be distinguished by its leaves having finer nerves and being pal 



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