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raised on both surfaces; main nerves 10—15 pairs, slightly raised 
on both surfaces, curved to and along the margin and then ending 
in small diminishing loops ; transverse nervules obscure, subparallel, 
enclosing the areolate reticulation; petiole slender, 1:55—2°5 cm. 
long. Spikes: 3 slender, up to 20 cm. long in axillary or terminal 
panicles; rhachises fulvous-puberulous: ? not seen. Flowers: 3 
solitary or in few-flowered clusters ; bracteoles ovate, acute, 1 mm. 
long ; perianth-lobes 6, nearly free, ovate, acute or obtuse, villous, 
ciliate on the margins, 1 mm. long; stamens 12 with long filaments 
and very small globose anthers; pistillode very villous, often 
obscurely 3-lobed. Fruits sessile, globose or double-globose and 
then transversely elongate, obscurely 4-channelled, in stout spikes 
about 15 cm. long, the rhachises 5 mm. thick or more; 2°5 cm. high, 
3°5 cm. long, 2 cm. broad; cupules thick-walled, studded scantily 
with clusters of subulate, simply or slightly branched, fulvous- 
puberulous curved, flattened, striate, sharp spines 5—10 mm. long 
when ripe; nuts 3 of which or 2 sometimes empty, ovoid-complanate, 
densely rufous-sericeous except the rugose base. 
Matacca: at Sungei Hudang, Goodenough 1593!. SINGAPORE : 
T. Anderson 85!; Kurz!; Hullett74!; at Changi, Ridley 3388!, at 
b) ’ 
Tanglin, Ridley 3389!, in garden jungle Ridley 10162!, 11353 !. 
This species comes very near to C. Schefferiana, Hance in Journ. Bot. 200 
(1878); King l.c. 105, t. 99 but the leaves are longer, have more main nerves 
and a longer petiole and the spines on the fruit are at least twice as long. 
7. Castanopsis Hunuettit, King in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
623 (1888). A large tree, reaching 18—24 m. in height and 60—90 
cm. in diam. of stem, branches spreading; branchlets stout with 
dark brown or nearly black bark and large prominent usually 
elongate lenticels, ultimate ones minutely scurfy, fulvous-tomentose ; 
leafbuds ovoid, perulate, the scales ovate acute, fulvous-tomentose. 
Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
acute acuminate or very shortly cuspidate at apex, acute or rounded 
and often unequal at base ; upper surface glabrous, shining, dark 
green when fresh, olive-green when dry, lower surface dull, rufous 
and very minutely puberulous; margin entire, hard and recurved ; 
12—24 em. long, 5—11 cm. broad ; midrib stout, prominent on both 
surfaces ; main nerves 15—18 pairs, prominent beneath, parallel, 
curved to and along the margin where they vanish; transverse 
nervules rather scanty, arched and irregular, rather obscure as is 
the reticulation; petiole 2—3 cm. long, swollen and rugose below, 
