Castanopsis.~] CXL. CUPULIFER^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 623 



C. tribuloides, A. DC. 1. c. C. armata, Don Prodr. 56 (not of Roxb.). 

 Quercus tribuloides, Smith in Rees Cyclop. xxiv.No. 13. Q. acuta, Serb. Ham. 

 Castanea tribuloides, Wall. Cat. 2765 ; PI As. Ear. ii. 6 ; Kiir& For. FL ii. 



480. C. microcarpa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3735 (by error 2735). 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; common from Kumaon eastwards to ASSAM, the 

 KHASIA MTS. and MUNNIPQRE, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



VAE. longispina, King mss. ; leaves usually larger and broader but sometimes 

 ovate-lanceolate often 5-7 in. and elliptic-oblong pubescent or glabrous beneath, 

 nerves 10-12 pairs, involucres larger 1 in. diam., spines very long and stout often 

 in., nuts 1-3. Castanea tribuloides, var. ferox, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 480. Sikkim, 

 Assam, Khasia and Munnipore, alt. 1-4000 ft. 



VAR. ferox, King mss. ; leaves ovate-lanceolate entire rarely serrate, involucres 

 in. diam., spines short about in. stout spreading, nuts 1-3. Castanopsis ferox, 

 Spach Hist. PI. Phan. xi. 180. Quercus ferox, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 639 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 218. Common in Sikkim, the Khasia Mts., &c., alt. 4-7000 ft. 



VAR. echidnocarpa, King mss. ; leaves small elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate 

 caudate often serrate above the middle glabrous, nerves 6-10 pairs, involucres much 

 smaller, hoary spines fewer very short often reduced to compound tubercles, nut 

 solitary. Castanopsis echidnocarpa, A. DC. in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1863, 182 ; Prodr. xvi. 

 ii. 112. Castanea echidnocarpa, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. fy T. Quercus ? caudata, 

 Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 2787- Bhotan, Khasia, Assam, Munnipore and Burma, alt. 

 4-7000 ft. 



VAR. Wattii, King mss. ; involucre small thick almost woody densely clothed with 

 very short branched often rufous spines, inner surface rufous-villous, nuts 2-3. 

 Munnipore, alt. 2000 ft., Watt. Khasia Hills (at Maobleh), Clarke, alt. 4000 ft. 



11. C. Clarkeij King mss. ; branches slender tomentose, leaves 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate rarely -oblanceolate acuminate serrate nearly 

 to the base pale and puberulous beneath, nerves 16-18 pairs, fruiting 

 spikes very slender, involucres globose, (young) spines slender. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; at Kalempoong, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. 



A monoecious tree, 120 ft., at once distinguished from all states of C. tribuloides 

 by the very pale many-nerved leaf, serrated always from f or more of its length. 

 The leaves are puberulous, almost white beneath, the petiole 1 in. Flowering spikes 

 very slender. 



B. Involucre subglobose to subovoid, more or less depressed ; walls with 

 transverse tubercled zones. Nuts usually more than one. 



12. C. sumatrana, A. DC. in Seem. Journ. Sot. 1863, 182 ; Prodr. 

 cvi. ii, 113 ; leaves oblong- or elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate 

 entire glabrous base acute, nerves 10-15 pairs, involucres large sub-ovoid or 

 -globose more or less lobulate or angled tubercled in wavy interrupted zones. 

 C. mitifica, Ifance in Journ. Sot. 1878, 200. Castanea inermis, Lindl. in 

 Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 6 ; Cat. 2762; A. DC. Prodr. 116 ; Kurz For Fl. ii. 



481. C. glomerata, Blume Mus. Sot. i. 283. Quercus glomerata, Wall. 

 Cat. 2791 (not of JRoccb.). Callaeocarpus sumatrana, Miquel PL Jungh. 13 ; 

 Fl. Ind. Sat. i. i. 868 (excl. syn.) ; Suppl. 353 ; Ann. Mus. i. 118. 



UPPER BURMA, at the Amber Mines, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4471). PERAK, alt. 

 0-5000 ft., King's Collector. PENANG, SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c. MALACCA, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 4442, 4470), Maingay (Keio Distrib. 1457). DISTRIB. Borneo. 



A large tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 4-9 in. ; petiole | 1 in. Spikes long- 

 peduncled, hoary. Involucre 1-1 5- in. long, bursting irregularly, walls very thick, 

 young depressed. Nuts 1-3, subsilky. 



13. C. Hullettii, King ms*. ; leaves elliptic or oblong-lanceolate acute 

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