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INDOMALAYAN SPECIES 



Plate 91.— C. castanicarpa, Spach. 1, branch with fruit (copied from Roxburgh's 



unpublished drawing in Herb. Caic); 2, ripe fruit collected by Mr. Dowling, — both 



natural size. 



11. Castanopsis Catapp^e folia, King in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 621.* 



Young shoots as thick as the little finger, minutely furfuraceous-puberulous, soon 

 becoming glabrous. Leaves large, on short, thick petioles, coriaceous, oblanceolate, acute, 

 entire, gradually narrowed from the middle to the short, stout petiole; upper surface 

 glabrous, shiuing ; the petiole and nerves puberulous ; lower dull, very minutely puberulous ; 

 the nerves from 20 to 25 pairs, rather transverse, bold and conspicuous on the lower 

 surface, impressed on the upper; length of blade 18 to 20 in., breadth about 7*5 in.; 

 petiole *5 in. Female spikes 10 or 11 in. long, glabrous; flowers in glomeruli of 3 or 4. 

 Fruit (not quite ripe) sub-globose or oblong, obscurely 4-angled, from 1*5 in. to 2 in. 

 in diameter; the involucre rather thin and crustaceous, densely covered externally with 

 numerous tufts of simple, subulate, slightly flattened, striate, nearly glabrous, sharp-pointed, 



spreading spines, about -3 in. long. Nuts 1 or 2, ovoid-globose, adpressed- sericeous, more 

 than 1 in. long. 



Perak, in the Goping district, at elevations of about 400 feet,— King's Collector (8137). 



A fine species, collected only once by the late Mr. Kunstler. The pubescence on 

 the under surface of the leaves is so minute that it can be seen only under a strong lens 

 and when scraped off by a knife. Male spikes of this are unknown. 



Plate 92.— C. catappa 'folia, King. 1, leaf with spike of female flowers; 2, spike with 



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3, glans, — of natural 



12. Castanopsis argyrophylla, King in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 622. 



Young shoots pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong- lanceo- 

 late, acute, entire; the base acute; nerves 10 to 12 pairs, thin, but prominent beneath; 

 both surfaces glabrous, the lower glaucescent ; length of blade 4-5 to 6 in., breadth 1-75 

 in. to 2-5 in.; petiole '75 to 1-15 in. Flowers in small fulvous-tomentose, axillary panicles, 

 longer than the leaves. Female spikes few ; the flowers single. Ripe fruit ovoid, about 



; the involucre with thin, brittle, sub-glabrous, glaucous walls, thickly covered 

 with tufts of simple or branching, subulate, radiating, glabrous spines about '25 in. Ion 

 Nuts 1 to 3, ovoid-globose, compressed on one side, densely but deciduously rufoi 

 tomentose.— Cast? argyrophylla, Wall. Cat. 2788.— Castas tribuloides, A. DC. var 



25 in. lon 



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Kurz. For. FL Burm. ii. 481 



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Burmah, near Rangoon, — Wallich, McClelland, Scott J Maingay (Kew Distrib. 14 57-2); 

 Pegu and Martaban,— Kurz (998); Tenasserim,— Heifer (4466); Ar mean, —Hilldebr and. 



This species has not been often collected since Wallich's time, and it is poorly repre- 

 sented in most herbaria. It comes nearest to C. argentea, A. DC. (to which DC. refers 

 the Wallichian sheet 2788); but it is distinguished from that species by the pubescence 

 of its young shoots, by its longer-petioled broader leaves, by its perfectly glabrous thin- 

 walled involucre and densely fulvous-tomentose nuts. The leaf characters are, however, 

 not very well-marked, and in absence of fruit it is not easy to recognise this 



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By a printer's error spelt Catalpcefolia in FL Br. Ind. The name Catappafolia teas given because of the retem- 



of this plant to those of 



