Castanea. | AMENTACER. 481 
tose ; bracts ovate, acute ; fruit ovate, globular, the size of a cherry, 
greyish-velvety, spiny-armed, the spines rather distant, short, 
simple or more usually clustered, often recurved, sharp, more or less 
appressed-pubescent. 
Var. 1, ferox (Quercus feror, Roxb.): leaves much larger, 
glabrous on both sides, entire, the spines of the fruit longer and 
straight ; albumen equable. 
Var. 2, armata (Quercus armata, Rozb.): leaves smaller, often 
remotely serrate towards the apex, beneath often minutely and 
thinly tomentose ; albumen ruminate. 
Hap.—Var.1: frequent in the drier hill forests’of Martaban and Upper 
— at 2,500 to 4,000 ft. elevation ; also Ava, Kakhyen hills.—l—S3.— 
Remarxs.—Wood greyish, turning brown on exposure to air, rather heavy, 
of a coarse grain, bony-fibrous, brittle, soon attacked by xylophages. 
or bluntish acuminate, entire, 4-6 in. long, chartaceous, while 
young sprinkled with a few appressed hairs on the midrib beneath, 
the lateral nerves rather numerous, thin and conspicuous, the net- 
veination rather lax and conspicuous; inflorescence greyish tomen- 
tose; perianth and the ovate bracts tomentose; fruits unilaterally 
obovoid, 14-2 in. long, greyish tomentose, strongly spiny-armed, 
the spines hardly 14 ln. long, compressed-conical, simple, sharp, 
grey-tomentose ; nut large, wholly adnate to the involucre. 
Haz.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests along the eastern ~~ of the 
= Rages and in South Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan. ; May.—s.—SS.=SiS. 
_. Has.—Rare in the moister hill forests of thé Martaban hills east of Toun- 
shoo, at 4,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation.—Fr. March.—s. =Metam. 
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