Miliusa indica Leschen. ex DC. in Mem. Soc. Phys. & Hist. Nat. Geneve 5: 213, t. 3. 1832; Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 86. 1872.

Shrubs or small trees, 2 - 7 m tall; young parts fusco-pubescent. Leaves oblong elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or subcordate at base, obtuse or acute at apex, 4 - 9 x 1.5 - 3 cm, glabrous above, except the pubescent sunken midrib, pubescent with straight hairs beneath; petioles 1 - 2 mm long, swollen at base, pubescent. Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary; pedicels 3 - 6 mm long; bracts 2, at the lower half of the pedicel. Sepals 3, ovate, acute, reflexed, ca 1.5 x 1 mm, pubescent outside. Petals 6 (3 + 3); outer petals like the sepals, broadly ovate; inner ones ovate, subacute, united up to the middle from saccate base, 1.2 - 1.6 x 0.7 cm. Stamens numerous, ca 1 mm long, with connectives rounded-apiculate at top. Carpels many, linear-oblong, ca 2 mm long, densely pilose, 1 - 2-ovuled; style short; stigma subclavate. Ripe carpels numerous, subsessile, ovoid or obovoid, silky pubescent. Seeds 2, yellow, smooth.

Fl. June - July; Fr. Oct. - Nov.

Distrib. India: West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Sri Lanka.