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straight or slightly curved, clustered; nuts breeds somewhat hairy 
especially round the apex, generally 1-seeded, ‘softly soar 
within. 
Has.—Chittagong. 
2. C. diversifolia, Kz.— Kyanya.—An evergreen (?) tree (40—60 
415—25 4 3—5), the young shoots more or less tawny-pubescent ; 
leaves very variable according to age, the younger ones chartaceous, 
ovate-oblong to ovate, 7 to 9 in, long by 4-43 broad, on a pubescent 
petiole 4 an inch long, slightly ete on the nerves on both 
sides, the nerves and lax net-veination strong and conspicuous ; the 
full-grown leaves much smaller, coriaceous, elliptically oblong, 
shortly and bluntish acuminate, 4h to 6 in. long, minutely puberu- 
lous on both sides or only the petiole and the nerves on both sides 
brescent, without silvery minute scales; panicles large and 
robust, crowded at the end of the branchlets, densely tawny- or 
Sesh ruhenvent perianth thickly tomentose; fruit-involucre 
nearly 14 in. in diameter, covered by spines, which are simple, stiff, 
oat about 4 lin. long, pubescent. 
—Common in the drier hill forests of ae Martaban hills east = 
ins §,000 ft. elevation—Fl. Apr.; Fr. the next year— 
argentea, Bl.—An. evergreen tree (50—60420—25+9 
~10), 2 all parts glabrous, the young branchlets usually somewhat 
pruinous ; leaves ovate-oblong to elliptically lanceolate, 5-7 m. 
long, obtuse or acute at the base, more or less acuminate, on a 
glabrous petiole 4-1 m. long, chartaceous, entire, beneath almost 
very from a minute indistinct scaly tomentum, the lateral nerves 
thin but prominent, the veination very thin and rather obsole te; male 
spikes robust, interrupted, axillary and terminal at the end of { the 
branchlets and forming more or less ample densely tawny-tomen- 
tose panicles; bracts obvate, acute, eaeiranatd yt: 
oval-ablong ng ; ager up to an ich and more in diameter, 
densely silky-velvety, 1-3-seeded, densely echinate, ‘the spines simple 
and rather thick 3. 4 lin. long, very sharp and variously but 
slightly curved, appressed billy pepe» nuts sparingly and 
gaceously appressed -pubesce 
Var. 2. Tungurrut (Castanea Tungurrut, Bi.) : hill form, lower 
and stunted, the spines of the fruit | naa < ae much more: eee 
Hap—tIn the tropical forests a 
fhe toned hl fone the Bede eat Ts ia hoo, at 6,000 to 7000 
a pr.—SS, —Metam. 
4. C. Javanica, Bl.—-An evergreen tree (50—60+20—25 
+910) al IE paste glabrous ; Ame eae yish brown, about 4 in 
thick, brittle ; cut reddish brown ; leaves lanceolate to oblong- 
