Miliusa macrocarpa
Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 150. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India
1: 86. 1872.
Nep.: Kalikat.
Small trees; branches glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly oblong, acute at base, long-acuminate at apex, 12 - 20 x 4 - 6 cm, glabrous; petioles 3 - 5 mm long, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, in few-flowered cymes or solitary, extra-axillary or leaf-opposed; pedicels 4 - 8 cm long, glabrous; bracts absent or small, a little above the base of pedicel, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Sepals 3, ovate, acute, 8 - 10 x 6 mm, fleshy, glabrous, granulate outside, dull rusty-pubescent inside. Petals 6 (3 + 3); outer petals like the sepals, ovate, acute, ca 10 x 7 mm, glabrous outside, tomentose inside; inner ones broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse or subacute,10 - 20 x 5 - 8 mm, pink with reddish brown veins, glabrous except a few fugacious hairs near the margin and top of the inner surface. Stamens many, ca 1.5 mm long; connectives flat, blunt with dots; filaments prominent. Carpels many, oblong-spathulate, ca 2.5 mm long, with pubescent dots; style short, linear; stigma broad, blunt. Ripe carpels many, oblong or obovoid, 12 - 16 x 7 mm, dark purple; stalk as long as fruitlets. Seeds 1 - 2.
Fl. April- May; Fr. Aug. - Nov.
Distrib. India: Subtropical forests, 1200 - 1700 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.
Bhutan.
Small trees; branches glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly oblong, acute at base, long-acuminate at apex, 12 - 20 x 4 - 6 cm, glabrous; petioles 3 - 5 mm long, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, in few-flowered cymes or solitary, extra-axillary or leaf-opposed; pedicels 4 - 8 cm long, glabrous; bracts absent or small, a little above the base of pedicel, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Sepals 3, ovate, acute, 8 - 10 x 6 mm, fleshy, glabrous, granulate outside, dull rusty-pubescent inside. Petals 6 (3 + 3); outer petals like the sepals, ovate, acute, ca 10 x 7 mm, glabrous outside, tomentose inside; inner ones broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse or subacute,10 - 20 x 5 - 8 mm, pink with reddish brown veins, glabrous except a few fugacious hairs near the margin and top of the inner surface. Stamens many, ca 1.5 mm long; connectives flat, blunt with dots; filaments prominent. Carpels many, oblong-spathulate, ca 2.5 mm long, with pubescent dots; style short, linear; stigma broad, blunt. Ripe carpels many, oblong or obovoid, 12 - 16 x 7 mm, dark purple; stalk as long as fruitlets. Seeds 1 - 2.
Fl. April- May; Fr. Aug. - Nov.
Distrib. India: Subtropical forests, 1200 - 1700 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.
Bhutan.
