Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40, and Fl. Ind. ii. 539 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate sparsely pilose beneath, male fl. subsessile in small clusters, corolla salvershaped tomentose without, fruit ellipsoid glabrous narrowed at the base. Wall. Cat. 4121 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 232 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 201 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 236, and For. Fl. ii. 137, as to descript, only.
EAST BENGAL ; Silhet and Comilla, Roxburgh (Hort. Calc.) ; (Griffith, Kew Distrib. n. 3624).
A tall slender conical tree with straight trunk (Roxburgh) ; branchlets soon glabrous. Leaves 3 by 1.1/4 in., base obtuse, ultimately glabrous above except the midrib, coriaceous ; primary nerves oblique not prominent, secondary obscure ; petiole 1/5 in. Male fl. 3-6 together ; bracts 1/16 in., numerous, ovate ; calyx 1/10 in., deeply lobed, lobes ovate apiculate ; corolla-tube 1/5 in., narrowed upwards, lobes 4, 1/6 in., ovate ; stamens 14-16, glabrous. Female fl. unknown. Fruit 1.1/4 by 3/4-1 in., solitary ; peduncle 1/4 in. ; fruiting-calyx small, lobes 1/6 in. long and broad, ovate.
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