Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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Qtt€7XUS) CVII. rAG-ACEiE 63a. acuminate, blade 4-6, pet. J in., sec. n. 10-12 pair, arching, prominent beneath. Acorns confluent in sessile clusters of three, involucre j-lj in. diam., completely enclosing the nut, scales tapering from a pyramidal base into a long acumen, walls woody, J in. thick, adhering tightly to the nut. Nut depressed-globose, diam. ; in., the upper fourth polished, the lower three-fourths rough, pericarp J in. thick, intruded into the cavity, cotyledons probably lobed. Q xylocarpus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 44, 196, tab. 14, iigs. 5-8, Arakan hills east of Akyab, 5-6,000 ft., is probably this species, but the scales are blunt and the apex of the nut is stated to be free. 86. Acorns only, similar to 35, from the hills east of Bhamo 7,500 ft. (f>ake pufi, Kachin, Mont. Hill, Feb. 1902), nut almost hemispherical, polished, except the flat circular base, pericarp thin. 37. Q. Wrayi, King Ann. ii. t. 104. Mergui (Manson).-—Perak. Branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and nerves on the upperside tawny-tomentose. L. lanceolate, blade 6-8, pet. J in., sec. n. slender, 15-20 pair, near the edge curving and anastomosing^ Cups sessile, on spikes 4 in. long, ;-1 J in. diam., scales soft, densely tomentose, up to J in. long. 2. CASTANOPSIS, Spach; El. Brit. Incl. v. 619 (included in Castanea by Prantl in Engler n. Prantl iii. 1. 54). Evergreen trees, pith usually quadrangular, med. rays of most species uniformj very fine and equidistant. ^ catkins erect, mostly in ternainal panicles. $ fl. 1-3 in one involucre, nuts wholly enclosed in the involucre, which is covered with spines or tubercles or marked with more or less concen- tric tubercled lines. Species 28, one in Pacific North America, the rest in Eastern Asia. Kyanza^ Burm. and TMi-^ in Upper Burma, are used indis- criminately for several species. I. Involucre ovoid or globose, dehiscent, spinous. A. Leaves sharply serrate.
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Pig. 196.—Castanopsis indica, A. DC. i-

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