Miliusa nilagirica Beddome, Icon. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 88. 1868 74; Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 87. 1872.

Large shrubs or small trees, 3 - 5 m tall; young branches rugose. Leaves ovate, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, subcuneate at base, shortly acuminate at apex, 5 - 10 x 2 - 4 cm, glabrous; petioles 3 - 7 mm long. Flowers purplish green, bisexual, solitary, axillary or extra-axillary; pedicels 5 - 10 mm long, glabrous; bracts 2 - 3, basal, minute, glabrous. Sepals 3, minute, ovate, ciliate along margins towards apex, otherwise glabrous. Petals 6 (3 + 3); outer petals like the sepals; inner ones oblong, acute, ca 10 x 2 mm, thick, glabrous except the thickened margins towards the apex. Stamens 8 - 12, uniseriate, ca 1 mm long; connectives blunt at top. Carpels ca 13, oblong, ca 2 mm long; ovules 1 - 2, on ventral sutures; style very short; stigma sessile, oblong or globose. Ripe carpels many, globose or subglobose, apiculate, red, glabrous; stalks 5 - 7 mm long.

Fl. March - June; Fr. July - Dec.

Distrib. India: Subtropical evergreen hill forests, at 1200 - 1500 m. Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Endemic.