. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. "Casta nojjsts] CVII. JFAGACEiE 635 Katovj, Kumaon ; Miisre katuSj Nep.; Kyanza^ Lower, Thite nij Thitegyin, Upper Burma. A middle-sized (rarely large) evergreen tree, young shoots pubescent. L. coriaceous or thinly coriaceous, entire, sometimes serrate near the apex, lanceolate, long acuminate, blade 4-8, pet. J in., upperside glabrous, under- side pale or reddish, sometimes pube- scent. Involucres distant, solitary or in pairs, styles lo
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. "Casta nojjsts] CVII. JFAGACEiE 635 Katovj, Kumaon ; Miisre katuSj Nep.; Kyanza^ Lower, Thite nij Thitegyin, Upper Burma. A middle-sized (rarely large) evergreen tree, young shoots pubescent. L. coriaceous or thinly coriaceous, entire, sometimes serrate near the apex, lanceolate, long acuminate, blade 4-8, pet. J in., upperside glabrous, under- side pale or reddish, sometimes pube- scent. Involucres distant, solitary or in pairs, styles long, linear. Fr. |-1 in. diam., on spikes up to 10 in. long. Involucres not confluent, tomentose, spines up to .^ in. long, usually on short ridges, often stellate or branched, :as a rule leaving portions of the in- volucre imcovered, nuts 1-3, glabrous when mature, cotyledons ruminated. Outer Himalaya from the Ganges east- wards, ascending to 6,000 ft. Assam. Xliasi hills. Manipur. Cachar. Chitta- gong. Hills of Upper Burma and Mar- taban.—Formosa. Fl. March-May, some- times later. More or less gregarious (Gamble). King 1. c. 102 recognizes the following varieties : (a) typica, L. entire, pubescence cinereous, spines numerous, long, slender, covering the walls of in- vokicre, nuts usually solitary, (b) ferox. Involucres larger than in (a), spines stouter but fewer, (o) longispina, L. large, spines stout curving, often J in. long, (d) eclMnocar^a. Pubescence fer- ruginous, involucre smaller than in (a), less covered by the spines, which are fewer and shorter, nut one. (e) Wattii. Manipur, also Khasi hills and Sikkim, Involucre small, almost woody, densely -clothed with short often rufous spines, nuts Fig. 197. Castanopsis tribuloides, A. DC. 10. C. armata, Spach ; King Ann. ii. t. 93.—Syii. Quercus armata^ Boxb. Cor. PI. t. 296: Wight Ic. t. 770; Castanea tribuloides, var. armata, Kurz F. PI. ii. 481. Vern. Nehari^ Seng.; Kanta Singar, Assam; Singliara, TipiDerah; Kant
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