Desmos longiflorus
(Roxb.) Safford in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 39: 507. 1912.
Unona longiflora Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 668. 1832; Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1:
61. 1872.
Asm.: Jor-lewa; Beng.: Kulla.
Erect shrubs to small trees, 4 - 8 m tall; branches spreading; young branches puberulous; buds rusty tomentose. Leaves narrow-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or subcuneate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, 13 - 30 x 4 - 7.5 cm, glossy above, glaucous beneath, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 12 - 16 pairs, subparallel; petioles 1 - 2 cm long. Flowers solitary, axillary, pendulous, horn-shaped, 12 - 15 cm long, silky when young, reddish orange outside, yellow inside; pedicels 3 - 8 cm long; bracts few, subbasal, linear, minute. Sepals 3, broadly triangular, subacute, mucronate, 3 - 4 x 2 - 3 mm, minutely pubescent. Petals 3, usually 2 of them connate, linear-lanceolate, clawed at base, long-acuminate and twisted at apex, 8 - 18.5 x 1 - 1.5 cm, red, fleshy, pubescent when young, glabrous with age; inner series absent. Stamens numerous, spirally closely packed, ca 3 mm long; connectives concave at top. Carpels many, ovoid, 2 - 4 mm long; ovary elongate, densely hairy; stigma curved. Ripe carpels 15 - 50, moniliform, 2 - 4-jointed; segments 1.5 - 2 x 0.6 - 0.8 cm; terminal one apiculate; stalks 1 - 2.5 cm long.
Fl. March - June; Fr. July - Dec.
Distrib. India: Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya and Orissa.
Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Erect shrubs to small trees, 4 - 8 m tall; branches spreading; young branches puberulous; buds rusty tomentose. Leaves narrow-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or subcuneate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, 13 - 30 x 4 - 7.5 cm, glossy above, glaucous beneath, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 12 - 16 pairs, subparallel; petioles 1 - 2 cm long. Flowers solitary, axillary, pendulous, horn-shaped, 12 - 15 cm long, silky when young, reddish orange outside, yellow inside; pedicels 3 - 8 cm long; bracts few, subbasal, linear, minute. Sepals 3, broadly triangular, subacute, mucronate, 3 - 4 x 2 - 3 mm, minutely pubescent. Petals 3, usually 2 of them connate, linear-lanceolate, clawed at base, long-acuminate and twisted at apex, 8 - 18.5 x 1 - 1.5 cm, red, fleshy, pubescent when young, glabrous with age; inner series absent. Stamens numerous, spirally closely packed, ca 3 mm long; connectives concave at top. Carpels many, ovoid, 2 - 4 mm long; ovary elongate, densely hairy; stigma curved. Ripe carpels 15 - 50, moniliform, 2 - 4-jointed; segments 1.5 - 2 x 0.6 - 0.8 cm; terminal one apiculate; stalks 1 - 2.5 cm long.
Fl. March - June; Fr. July - Dec.
Distrib. India: Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya and Orissa.
Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
