Alphonsea zeylanica Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 153. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1: 89. 1872.

Trees; young branches puberulous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute at base, long-acuminate at apex, 5.5 - 8.5 x 1.5 - 2.5 cm, glabrous, puberulous on the midrib beneath when young; petioles 4 - 5 mm long, glabrous. Flowers few, in leaf-opposed or extra-axillary fascicles; pedicels 7 - 10 mm long, pubescent; bracts small, basal and submedian. Sepals 3, minute, connate at base, tomentose outside. Petals glabrous inside, yellowish green; outer petals ca 7 x 5 mm; inner ones smaller. Stamens many, ca 1.5 mm long; connectives apiculate at top. Carpels 5 - 6, oblong, ca 1 mm long, pubescent; style depressed; stigma bilobed. Ripe carpels subglobose, ca 1 cm across, brown tomentose, slightly and irregularly tuberculate; stalk stout. Seeds 4 - 6 in two rows.

Fl. & Fr. not known.

Distrib. India: Tamil Nadu (Tirunelveli Dist.).

Sri Lanka.