Castanopsis.~] CXL. CUPULIFER^. (J. D. Hooker.) 625 



Upper Burma, Lamoom and banks of Mogoung River, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4460, 

 4463). See at end of Quercus for other plants included under Q. Jerikinsii. Wallich, 

 No. 9145, from Tavoy, resembles this a good deal, but its nerves are more numerous, 

 fern, spikes more slender, and it is from a very different region. 



5. CORYLUS, Linn. 



Deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs, flowering before leafing. Leaves 

 alternate, doubly serrate, plicately penninerved. Male fl. solitary in the 

 bracts of a many-fld. pendulous spike, 2-bracteolate ; perianth ; stamens 

 4-8, filaments forked, separating the anther-cells. Fern. fl. in pairs in the 

 upper bracts of a minute few-fid, many-bracteate spike or head, bracteole 

 solitary 3-partite ; perianth superior, limb annular, toothed ; ovary 2-celled, 

 cells 1-ovuled ; style-arms linear. Nut large, woody or bony, enclosed in 

 the greatly enlarged coriaceous bracts, 1-seeded. Species 7, of North tem- 

 perate regions. 



1. C. ferox, Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 77, t. 87 ; Cat. 2797; leaf-buds Ian- 

 ceolate silky, leaves oblong or ovate-oblong acuminate very finely laciniately 

 serrate, fruiting bracts tomentose spinescent and lobed. Brand. For. Fl. 

 494; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 390 ; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 129. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



A small tree ; shoots puberulous. Leaves 4-5 in., young pubescent, old puberu- 

 lous beneath; nerves 10-12 pairs; petiole ^-f in., hairy. Male spikes clustered, 

 1-2 in. ; bracts obovate, acute, densely villous ; stamens 4-6, subsessile ; anther-cells 

 contiguous, tips hairy. Fern. fl. subcapitate ; spines of invol. in. long, slender, 

 branched. Nuts in nodding clusters, 2-4 in. diam., of 3-6 each, ovoid or globose, 

 very hard, f in. diam. 



2. Ci Colurna, Linn. Sp. PI. 999 ; leaf -buds short rounded, leaves 

 obovate acuminate lobulate and toothed, base cordate, bracts velvety 

 unarmed outer fruiting laciniate inner longer sheathing ribbed cleft into 

 serrate glandular-hairy lobes. Brand. For. Fl. 494 ; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 390 ; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 131 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1176. C. 

 lacera, Wall. Cat. 2798. C. Jacquemontii, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 

 160, 1. 160. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5500-10,500 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon. 

 DISTRIB. Asia Minor, Thrace and Hungary. 



A small gregarious tree, 40-50 ft. Leaves 5-8 by 2|-6 in., glabrous or nearly so, 

 membranous, nerves 10-12 pairs, terminating the lobes ; petiole 1-1 in. Male 

 spikes clustered, 1-2 in., very stout ; bracts obovate, acute with about 8 anther-cells 

 on the midrib, their filaments variously connate. Nut globose, very hard. 



6. CARFXNUS, Tourn. 



Deciduous trees or shrubs, monoecious. Leaves alternate, serrate, pli- 

 cately penninerved. Male fl. in lateral pendulous spikes, bracts ovate, 

 bracteoles ; perianth ; stamens 3 or 4 on a hairy torus adnate to the 

 bract, filaments 2-fid separating the anther-cells. Fem.fl. in erect terminal 

 spikes ; bracts foliaceous, bracteoles 2 ; perianth limb minute, superior, 

 toothed; ovary 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled; style-arms 2 long, stigmatose on 

 the inner face. Nut ribbed, enclosed in the base of the elongate foliaceous 

 bract and bracteoles. Cotyledons fleshy, enclosing the radicle. Species 9, 

 of N. temp, regions. 



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