firm, obovate or cuneate-oblong, with a very blunt rounded end, entire, ta- 
pering downwards, 2-5 inches long; those of the young shoots are oblong 
with parallel margins, often measuring a span in length; glaucous and 
opaque on both sides, perfectly smooth, very pale underneath, with a keeled 
elevated midrib and alternate obscure nerves; veins almost imperceptible, 
edges slightly recurved. Petiole round, recurved, slightly furrowed, with 
a searcely swelled jointed base. , Stipules none. Umbel solitary, lateral or 
terminal, nodding, half the length of the leaves, rounded, obscurely bifid, 
on a compressed broadish flaccid peduncle which is 3 times longer than the 
petiole, somewhat 2-lobed and thickened at the apex. Flowers large co- 
riaceous, pale-green, inodorous, on clavate rounded pedicles which are 3 an 
inch long with a number of ovate fleshy scales surrounding their base, Calyx 
cupshaped flattish short close-pressed to the bottom of the corolla, perma- 
nent, with 5 ovate acute teeth. Corolla campanulate with a wide 5-cornered 
tube and spreading limb; about half an inch long. Æstivation imbricate. 
Petals very thick and leathery, broad oblong, with parallel sharp alternately 
imbricating margins; apex rounded, subacute, the inside convex towards 
the middle; base retuse, thickened, inserted on the outside of the nectary. 
Filaments 5, fleshy, thick, subulate, ascending, a little curved, alternating 
with the petals: anthers oblong, large, erect, slightly convergent, bilocular, 
bursting along the margins, inserted by the base. Disk or nectary fleshy, 
narrow, green, permanent, surrounding the base of the germen, having 5 
marks on the convex outside for the insertion of the petals; fringed at the 
margin by numerous subulate short upright uneven teeth, among which the 
filaments are inserted. Germen superior, large, ovate, 5-cornered, 5-celled, 
with numerous subulate transverse ovula attached to the axis in a double row; 
continuously tapered into a very short thick style. Stigma 5-lobed, reach- 
ing the base of the anthers; lobes ovate, acute, erect. Drupe oblong 
rounded, with five slender raised ribs, hence 5-cornered, about 2 inches 
long, of a cinerous grey, marked with numerous small obsoletely raised pa- 
pille (pimples) like the rind of an orange, surrounded at the base by the wi- 
thered remains of the calyx and disk, terminated rather abruptly by a sub- 
conical 5-cornered blunt top, about $ of an inch long; 5-celled, cells smooth 
and polished on the inside. Putamen (shell) of a bony hardness, 2 lines 
thick. Seeds numerous, horizontal, smooth, of a shining brown, ovate, 
slightly angular, about the size of those of a raisin, attached at the apex by 
a short funiculus to the inner angle of each cell. Integuments 2: inner pale, 
membranous. Embryo ovate, amygdalaceous: cotyledons ovate, obtuse: 
radicle cylindric, centripetal. The margins of the tender brownish leaves 
are marked with remote glandular minute globular teethlets, which are easily 
rubbed off, leaving no vestige on the cartilaginous margin. It is only in this 
state that the leaves appear denticulate, with both surfaces lucid and var- 
nished as it were, and slightly glandularly dotted. As they grow old, all 
appearances vanish entirely, and they become entire, smooth, and glaucous.” 
Roxb. fl. ind. 2. 312, 
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