Desmos dasymaschalus (Blume) Safford in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 39: 507. 1912. Unona dasymaschala Blume, Fl. Java Anon. 55, t. 27. 1828.

Erect or sarmentose shrubs; young branches usually softly rufous pubescent. Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, rounded or sometimes narrowed at base, acute to shortly acuminate at apex, 9 - 28 x 4 - 9.5 cm, glabrous above, puberulous on midrib beneath; petioles 5 - 20 mm long. Flowers solitary, axillary or terminal, pendulous; pedicels 3.5 - 7 (-10) cm long; bracts minute, basal. Sepals 3, free, triangular, acuminate, 3 - 5 x 3 - 4 mm, silky, fleshy when young, minutely and sparsely pubescent. Petals 3 - 4, partly united when young, concave, clawed, ovate-acute to lanceolate-acuminate, broad at base, 4 - 13 x 1 - 2 cm, cream-coloured, thickly coriaceous; inner series absent. Stamens numerous, 2.5 - 3 mm long; anthers with oblique connectives, expanded at the apex. Carpels many, 3 - 4 mm long, densely villous; stigma clavate with U-shaped groove. Ripe carpels many, moniliform, 2 - 7-jointed, apiculate at apex, pubescent to glabrous; stalks 4 - 6 mm long.

Fl. & Fr. not known.

Distrib. India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Myanmar, Thailand and Java.