Taxillus assamicus Danser in Blumea 3: 401. 1940.

Branches and leaves cinnamomeous stellate hairy, mixed with a few abietiform hairs when young, glabrous when old. Leaves opposite and alternating towards apices of branchlets, elliptic, decurrent at base, subacute at apex, 3 - 12 x 2 - 7 cm, coriaceous; lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs; petioles 7 - 11 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, reduced dichasium; peduncle solitary, 2- flowered, 1 - 2 mm long, rusty puberulous; flower buds clavate, 1.5 - 2 cm long, sparsely stellate- hairy, glabrous in age. Flowers 4-merous, 2.2 - 2.5 cm long; pedicels 2.5 - 3.5 mm long; bract ovate, 1.5 - 1.6 x 0.8 - 1 mm. Calyculus annular. Petals united; tube ventricose at middle, 1.4 - 1.8 cm long, median split up to one-third the length; lobes ovate, 2 - 2.5 mm long. Stamens 4, erect; filaments 4 - 5 mm long; anthers elliptic-ovate, 0.5 - 0.8 mm long. Ovary turbinate, 1.5 - 1.8 mm long; style terete; stigma subglobose. Fruits ellipsoid, truncate at apex, 6 - 7 x 4 - 5 mm, sparsely rusty brown stellate hairy with reticulate markings at apex.

Fl. & Fr. June - Jan.

Distrib. India: Found on Eurya japonica and Quercus griffithii. Assam and Meghalaya.

Endemic.

Notes. Vessels transversely porous with lateral perforations; fibre thick-walled, broad- lumened; pits reduced.

Pollen 3-lobed; P - 19 (23.7) 27 µm; E - 33 (40.5) 44 µm; P/E - 0.60 µm; ex. 1.5 µm; col. 0.5 µm.