Polyalthia crassa R. Parker in Indian For. 55: 375. 1929.

Trees, ca 4 m tall; branches glabrous. Leaves oblong, acute at base, acuminate at apex, 12 - 22 x 3 - 7 cm, glabrous, shiny above, pale beneath; petioles 3 - 5 mm long. Flowers solitary or few together on small tubercles on very short leafless extra-axillary branchlets; pedicels ca 1 cm long, stout, puberulous; bracts few, minute at the base of pedicels. Sepals 3, broadly ovate, obtuse at apex, ca 4 x 6 mm, puberulous. Petals 6 (3 + 3), ovate, acute, triangular at tip, green, fleshy, puberulous; outer ones 9 - 10 x 5 - 6 mm; inner ones slightly larger. Stamens numerous, spathulate, 1.5 - 2 mm long; filaments short; connectives suborbicular at top. Carpels many, ca 1 mm in diam., hairy; ovule 1, basal, erect; stigma sessile, capitate. Ripe carpels many, oblong-ellipsoid, ca 2 cm long, glabrous; stalk 1 - 1.5 cm long. Seed 1.

Fl. Feb. - April; Fr. Nov.- Dec.

Distrib. India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Endemic.