458 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
V. 621 (1888). A large tree reaching 18—24 m. in height and 40—50 
cm. in diam. of stem, branches spreading; branchlets very stout, 
dark brown to nearly black with small inconspicuous lenticels, 
ultimate ones when young furfuraceous-puberulous ; leaf buds large, 
perulate, the scales lanceolate 1—1°5 cm. long, stift, nearly glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous, very large ; oblanceolate, acute at apex, gradu- 
ally narrowed, almost cuneately, at base; upper surface glabrous 
except on the midrib and nerves, shining, lower dull, very minutely 
puberulous ; margin entire; 40—50 cm. long, 12—20 em. broad ; 
midrib very stout, raised and puberulous on both surfaces ; main 
nerves about 25—30 pairs, impressed keeled and puberulous above, 
very prominent beneath, parallel, starting nearly at right angles 
with the midrib and only slightly curving to near the margin and 
then somewhat abruptly to join each other in loops; transverse 
nervules rather few but prominent, again transversely joined and 
enclosing the rather obscure reticulation; petiole very stout, rugose, 
10—15 mm. long. Spikes: 3 not known: 2 25—30 em. long, 
stout, with black angular rhachis minutely puberulous. Flowers: 
2 usually 3 together in the axil of an obtuse bracteole enclosing a 
cup of smaller bracteoles; perianth very small ;-styles 3, short, 
spreading, slender. Fruits globose or double-globose and then each 
half about 4cm. in diam., minutely fulvous-puberulous, sessile, in 
spikes with avery stout rhachis; cupule thin, crustaceous, when 
double splitting vertically, covered externally with closely packed 
tufts of simple, subulate, flattened, striate, very sharp spines about 
7 mm. long, the tufts in obscure oblique bands, the inner face more 
or less free; nuts 1—3, of which one usually small and empty, the 
good ones ovoid-globose, densely tawny-sericeous except the rather 
small rugose glabrous base, 2—2°5 em. long. King Ann. Cale. II. 
100, t. 92. 
Perak: in open forest on low hills at 100—150 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 8137 !. 
6. CASTANOPSIS ANDERSONI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 179 (1914). 
A tree; branchlets moderately stout with greyish-brown bark, the 
ultimate ones brown, minutely fulvous-pubescent ; leafbuds globose, 
perulate, glabrous, the scales ovate, acute or acuminate. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous ; obovate or oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, acute 
at apex, acutely attenuate at base; glabrous, upper surface when 
dry shining, olive-brown, lower dull reddish-brown ; margin entire, 
slightly recurved ; 8—16 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad ; midrib slender, 
