Miliusa globosa
(DC.) Panigr. & S. C. Mishra in Taxon 33: 713. 1984. Guatteria
globosa DC. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Natur. Geneve 5: 41 ('43') (pre-print? 1831); et
period. edit. : (?) 218, before 21 Nov. 1832. Hyalostemma roxburghiana Wallich, Cat. no.
6434. 31 Oct. 1832, nom. illeg. Miliusa roxburghiana (Wallich) Hook. f. & Thomson,
Fl. Ind. 150. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1: 87. 1872. Uvaria dioica Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed.2, 2:
659. 14 Jan. 1832 (as'dioeca').
Asm.: Chhag-loti, Clarg-lodoi, Tippera-totsi; Jain.: Dieng-jwat.
Small trees or large shrubs, 3 - 12 m tall, dioecious or polygamous; young branches softly pubescent. Leaves bifarious, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or acute at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, 10 - 18 x 3.5 - 6 cm, thinly coriaceous, shiny above, glabrous except the puberulous midrib above, pubescent beneath,. glabrous with age; lateral nerves ca 10 pairs; petioles 1 - 2 mm long. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, solitary or 2 - 3 together, axillary, extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, drooping, ca 1.5 cm long, red; pedicels 1.5 - 2.5 cm long, pubescent; bracts 1 - 3, basal or a little above the base, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Sepals 3, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed, 3- 6 x ca 1 mm; rusty tomentose outside. Petals 6 (3 + 3); outer petals similar to sepals; inner ones ovate, saccate at base, obtuse to subacute at apex, cohering laterally up to middle when young, later free, 1 - 1.5 x 0.4 - 0.8 cm, blood red with dark veins, sparsely pubescent. Stamens many, ca 1 mm long; connectives dome-shaped at top, dark red; anther-thecae contiguous, extrorse. Carpels many, ca 2 mm long, intermixed with hairs, ovate or oblong; stigma sessile, capitate. Ripe carpels many, ovoid, subglobose to oblong, 7 - 10 mm long, 10 - 18 mm across, slightly pubescent; stalks slender, 1 - 1.5 cm long. Seeds usually 1, sometimes few, ovoid, ca 4 x 3 mm.
Fl. Dec. - May; Fr. Aug. - Sept.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests, up to 800 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya.
Bhutan and Bangladesh.
Small trees or large shrubs, 3 - 12 m tall, dioecious or polygamous; young branches softly pubescent. Leaves bifarious, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or acute at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, 10 - 18 x 3.5 - 6 cm, thinly coriaceous, shiny above, glabrous except the puberulous midrib above, pubescent beneath,. glabrous with age; lateral nerves ca 10 pairs; petioles 1 - 2 mm long. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, solitary or 2 - 3 together, axillary, extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, drooping, ca 1.5 cm long, red; pedicels 1.5 - 2.5 cm long, pubescent; bracts 1 - 3, basal or a little above the base, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Sepals 3, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed, 3- 6 x ca 1 mm; rusty tomentose outside. Petals 6 (3 + 3); outer petals similar to sepals; inner ones ovate, saccate at base, obtuse to subacute at apex, cohering laterally up to middle when young, later free, 1 - 1.5 x 0.4 - 0.8 cm, blood red with dark veins, sparsely pubescent. Stamens many, ca 1 mm long; connectives dome-shaped at top, dark red; anther-thecae contiguous, extrorse. Carpels many, ca 2 mm long, intermixed with hairs, ovate or oblong; stigma sessile, capitate. Ripe carpels many, ovoid, subglobose to oblong, 7 - 10 mm long, 10 - 18 mm across, slightly pubescent; stalks slender, 1 - 1.5 cm long. Seeds usually 1, sometimes few, ovoid, ca 4 x 3 mm.
Fl. Dec. - May; Fr. Aug. - Sept.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests, up to 800 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya.
Bhutan and Bangladesh.
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