INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES
2 in.; petiole -3 in.; nerves 7 or 8 paii-s, slightly prominent below, 3iale spikes
slender, puberulous, erect, on slightly spreading, terminal panicles, which are longer
than the leaves. Ripe fruit 1-5 in. long, ovoid, flattened on one side; the involucre
thick-walled, indehiscent, 1-cclIed, l-seeded, externally everywhere covered with
farfuraceous ciaereoiia tomentum and (except on the middle of the flat surface) with
stout, simple, flattened, conical, tomentose spines with sharp apices, about -2 in. long.
yut ovoid-globose, flattened on one side, smooth, about 1 in. long. Jlook. fit Fl. Br. Ind.
V. ^'i^.— Call(BOcaTpu& rhamnifolia, Miq. Fi. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 353; Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. i.
118; SeheS. Obs. Phyt. iii. 2o.—Q. rlianinifoUa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. %b'i.~Ccistanea
rhamnifolia, Kiu-z. For. Fl. Bm-m. ii. 481.
The Lampongs in Sumatra; Bangka,—Teijsmann; Burmah,—Kurz (2202).
Female flowers of this are unknown. Kurz's Burmese specimens are very few,
and they ai-e in fruit only. Their leaves are rather longer than in specimens from
Sumatra ; otherwise they agree. Brandis and Gallatly collected in Burmah a plant
which in leaf much resembles this; but the male spikes (which alone are present)
are very difierent, being much robuster and densely fulvous-tomentose. In the absence
of fruit, that species—for species it apparently is—must remain unnamed.
PLATB lOOB.— C. rhamnifolia, A. DC. 4, flowering-branch; 5, imripe fruit; 6, ripe
fruit,—of natural size.
19. CASXANOPSIS WALLICHII, King in Ilooh fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 634.
Young shoots covered with minute, cinereous, sub-flocculent pubescence. Leaves
coriaceous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, entire; the base slightly
unequal, acute; upper surface glabrous, except the puberuloag midrib; under surface
minutely cinereous or ferruginous, flocculent-pubescent; nerves 6 or 7 pairs, slightly
prominent beneath; length of blade 2 to in., breadth -9 to 1-25 in. ; petiole about -25
in. Male spikes in erect, little-bra ached, terminal or sub-terminal, cinereous, pubescent
panicles. Female spikes solitary, few, axillary, below the males. Ripe fndt 1-5 in. long,
ovoid, flattened on one side; the involucre indehiscent, thick-walled, 1-ceUed and l-seeded,
densely covered on the rounded surface by numerous, large, stout, simple, prismatic,
flattened, striate, pubescent, hooked spines about -3 in. long; the flattened surface of
the involucre with fewer spines. Nut depressed-globose, solitary. —Castorn Tungurnii,
Wall. Cat. 2763 (not of Blume;.
I'eTi&n^,— Wallich; UaX&ccA,—Griffith (4444), Maingay (1465); Perak,—Ziwi/'s Collector
(4848); at elevations of 1,000 to 1,500 feet ; Singapore,—Cajti^.
TIds was originally issued without fruit as Castanea Tmgurrut, Blume, by Wallich.
Had fruit been present, it would have at once been seen that this is not Blume's plant.
Griffith's specimens bear unripe fruit; and it was not until the Calcutta Garden Collector
sent it from Perak that the ripe fruit was known. The specics is allied to 0. rhamnifolia,
but has different leaves and more spiny involucres.
PLATE lOlA.— 0. Wallichi, KXrig. 1, flowering-branch; 2, young fruit; 3, nearly ripe
itnii,—of natural size.
20. CASTANOPSIS NEPHELIOIDES, King in Book. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. v. 624.
Young shoots covered with deciduous, fulvous, furfuraccous tomentum. Leaves thinly
coriaceous, from elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate; the apex with u
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short, blunt acumen; the edges entire; the base acute; upper surface glabrous; the lower
sparsely and minutely furfuraceous-pubescent, especially on the 9 to 12 pairs of prominent
nerves; length of blade 3'5 in. to ñ in., breadth 1'75 to 2'5 in.; petiole -35 in. Spikes in
lax, minutely tomentose, terminal, leafless panicles much longer than the loaves. Male
flowers glomerulate ; female flowers on the lower part of only very few spikes, solitary.
llipe //'Mí'í obovoid, flattened on one side, about 1 in. long; the involucre thin, crustaceous,
closely adherent to, and inseparable from, the single nut; externally slightly scurfypuberulous,
and bearing numerous patelliform, short, slightly flattened, blunt, simple
tubercles ; cotyledons slightly sinuate
Perak,—King's Collector, Scorteclmii.
A handsome tree, 30 to 60 feet high. In leaf this rather resembles Q. ? divaricata, Lindi.
The curious ovoid-complanate fruit resembles that of C. rhamnifoia, but the tubercles are
shorter and blunter.
PLATE 102.—Í?. nephelioides, King. 1, branch with ripe fruit ; 2, male and female spikes ;
3, ripe fruit (the internal smooth aspect) ; 4, the same (the external tubercled aspect),—of
natural size.
21. C. CuKTisil, nov. spec.
Young branches slender, glabrous, minutely lenticellate. Leaves sub-coriaceous, small,
oblong-lanceolate, slightly inequilateral, shortly acuminate, entire, glabrous on both surfaces^
the upper shining, the lower dull with minute adpressed hairs on the midrib and 10 to 12
pairs of thin prominent nerves; length of blade 2-5 to 3-5 in., breadth 1-25 to 1-5 in. •
petiole -3 in., slender. Fruit on stout lateral racemes more than twice as long as tlie
leaves, the involucres solitary, pyi-iform, flattened or hollowed on one side and gradually
narrowed to a thick peduncle, the apex escentricj tlie sides witli many interrupted vertical
ridges and densely covered (when unripe) with minute cinereous tomentum ; length (unripe)
1 in., breadth -75 in., peduncle '35 in., nut solitary,
Penang, at an elevation of 1,000 ÍQct,~Mr. C. Curtis (No. 1691).
This species has hitherto been collected by Mr. Curtis, and by him only once. His specimens
have no male Sowers, and only immatm-e fruit. Its nearest ally is 0. nephdioiia
King ; but it is quite distinct from that and from any other described species. '
PLATE 103.-(7. Curtüii, King. Branch with nearly ripe fruit. ], fruit cut open,-«/
natural size.
22. CASTANOPSIS BUKUANA, 3Iiq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 120.
Young branches thin, softly pubescent. Leans oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate
shortly acuminate, entire i the base acute, slightly uneqnal; upper sm-faee glabrous- the
lower covered with dense but minute fulvous-tomentnui ; nerves U to 13 pairs thin
promment below and, with the midi-ib and petiole, adpressed-pubescent. Moie svikes not
seen. Female spúe, slender, axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, pubescent; flowers
sohtoiy. im,t (not upe) ovoid; the involucre cinereous-tomentose, with several wavv
concentric ridges, from which spring a few simple or agglomerate, short, stout, conical'
blunt, tomentose spmes with glabrous sharp points.-_OC. Fred. ivi. ü. ' l n
The Island of Boeroe,—Te^smann.
A species of whioh only very poor specimens exist in the Leiden oollection. These
appear to difler from any other Castan^sis. In leaf they resemble C. Tungun-ut ; but the
irmts (only young ones bemg present) more resemble those of 0. Sultram
P.AT. 101B. - a Bnruana, Miq, 4, branch with spike of female Sowers; 5. very
young fruits ; 6, unripe fruit,—«/ natural me. '
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