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INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES 



2 in • petiole -3 in. ; nerves 7 or 8 pairs, slightly prominent below. Male spikes 

 slender, puberulous, erect, on slightly spreading, terminal panicles, which are longer 

 than the leaves. Mipe fruit V5 in. long, ovoid, flattened on one side; the involucre 

 thick-walled, indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded, externally everywhere covered with 

 furfuraceous cinereous tomentum and (except on the middle of the flat surface) with 

 stout, simple, flattened, conical, tomentose spines with sharp apices, about 2 in. long. 

 Nut ovoid-globose, flattened on one side, smooth, about 1 in. long.— Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 T< 624.— Callceocarpus rhamnifolia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 353; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 

 118; Scheff. Obs. Phyt. iii. 95.—<>. rhamnifolia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1.853.-0^^ 



rhamnifolia, Kurz. For. Fl. Burm. ii. 481. 



The Lampongs in Sumatra; Bangka,— Teysmann ; Burmah,— Kurz (2202). 



Female flowers of this are unknown. Kurz's Burmese specimens are very few, 

 and they are in fruit only. Their leaves are rather longer than in specimens from 



Sumatra ; otherwise they agree. Brandis and Gallatly collected in Burmah a plan 

 which in leaf much resembles this; but the male spikes (which alone are present) 



different, being much robuster and densely fulvous-tomentose. In the absence 



very 



of fruit, that species— for species it apparently is— must remain unnamed 



Plate 100B.— C. rhamnifolia, A. DC. 4, flowering-branch; 5, unripe fruit; 6, ripe 



fruit, — of natural size. 



19. Castanopsis Wallichii, King in Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. v. 624. 



Young shoots covered with minute, cinereous, sub-flocculent pubescence. Leaves 

 coriaceous lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, entire ; the base slightly 

 unequal, acute ; upper surface glabrous, except the puberulous midrib ; under surface 

 minutely cinereous or ferruginous, flocculent-pubescent ; nerves 6 or 7 pairs, slightly 

 prominent beneath; length of blade 2 to 3*5 in., breadth -9 to 1-25 in.; petiole about *25 

 in. Male spikes in erect, little-branched, terminal or sub-terminal, cinereous, pubescent 

 panicles. Female spikes solitary, few, axillary, below the males. Ripe fruit 1*5 in. long, 

 ovoid, flattened on one side; the involucre indehiscent, thick-walled, 1-celled and 1-seeded, 

 densely covered on the rounded surface by numerous, large, stout, simple, prismatic, 

 flattened, striate, pubescent, hooked spines about *3 in. long ; the flattened surface of 

 the involucre with fewer spines. Nut depressed-globose, solitary. — Castanea Tungurrut, 



Wall. Cat. 2763 (not of Blume). 



Penang,— Wallich; Malacca,— Griffith (4444), Maingay (1465); Perak,— King's Collector 

 (4848) ; at elevations of 1,000 to 1,500 feet ; Singapore, — Cantley. 



This was originally issued without fruit as Castanea Tungurrut, Blume, by Wallich. 

 Had fruit been present, it would have at once been seen that this is not Blume's plant. 

 Griffith's specimens bear unripe fruit ; and it was not until the Calcutta Garden Collector 

 sent it from Perak that the ripe fruit was known. The species is allied to C. rhamnifolia, 

 but has different leaves and more spiny involucres 



Plate 101 A. — C. Wallichi, King. 3 , flowering-branch ; 2, young fruit; 3, nearly ripe 



fruit,— of natural size. 





20. Castanopsis nephelioides, King in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 624. 



Young shoots covered with deciduous, fulvous, furfuraceous tomentum. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, from elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate; the apex with a 



