4.30 AMENTACER. [ Castanea. 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the base, on a 3-4 lin. long 
petiole, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, 5-6 in. long, entire, 
firmly chartaceous, glabrous, rather glossy above, beneath tawny 
or somewhat metallic from a minute, compact, indistinct tomentum, 
the lateral nerves rather prominent, the veination thin and incon- 
spicuous; male spikes long and very slender, densely greyish 
puberulous, panicled in the axils of the leaves or forming larger 
terminal panicles ; bracts broadly half-ovate, blunt ; perianth-lobes 
oval, greyish pubescent outside ; fruit-involucre densely and greyish 
silvery-velvety, globose, when fully ripe 14-2 in. in diameter 
spiny-armed, the spines fascicled from a more or less distinct tuber- 
cle and simple, up to 4 in. long, appressed silky-pubescent, very 
sharp and usually straight but variously divaricate. 
Var. 2. Falconeri (Castanopsis Falconeri, Hance): spines of 
the more pubescent involucre less crowded, higher up connate and 
somewhat compressed, usually depressed from above. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests, especially along choungs, of Pegu, 
Martaban, and Tenasserim: var. 2; Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. end of RB.S.; 
¥r. end of H.S.—s.—SS.—Metam. SiS., etc. 
os ReMarxs.—Wood brown with silvery lustre, heavy, fibrous but close grained, 
ong. 
tawny-pubescent, covered with numerous sharp, curved, tawny- 
pubescent, rather strong, branched spines of 2-3 lin. length. — 
Has.—Chittagong. 
6. C. tribuloides, Sm.; Brand. For. Fl., 490.—Kyanza.—An 
evergreen tree (40—50 +20—25 + 3—4), the young branchlets glab- _ 
rous or minutely velvety ; bark an inch thick, dark grey, ToUg}s — 
cut brown, dry ; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, ac te, 
serrate towards the point, beneath minutely and compactly pre 
