Polyalthia meghalayensis Prakash & Mehrotra in Nord. J. Bot. 10: 45 - 47, f. 1. 1990.

Shrubs, erect, unbranched or few-branched; stem black with numerous lenticels. Leaves elliptic-oblong, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, 4 - 14 x 1.7 - 3.7 cm, glabrous, pubescent with simple hairs along midrib beneath; petioles 2 - 4 mm long, swollen with annular rings, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers 1.8 - 2.3 cm across, pinkish yellow, solitary, leaf-opposed; pedicels 5 - 8 mm long; bracts 2, above the base nearly at the middle, ovate, 1 - 1.5 mm long, hairy. Sepals 3, valvate, ovate, 2.5 - 3 mm long, pubescent. Petals 6 (3 + 3), ovate, thick, flat, spreading, hairy outside; outer petals valvate or imbricate, smaller, ca 3.5 mm long or 1 or 2 equal to inner ones; inner ones imbricate, larger, thicker, ca 12 x 9 mm. Stamens numerous; anthers sessile, 2-loculed, 2.3 - 2.5 mm long; connectives prominent, discoid-suborbicular at top. Carpels numerous, linear-oblong, ca 2 mm long, silky hairy; ovules 1 (-2); style absent; stigma discoid. Ripe carpels not seen.

Fl. & Fr. not known.

Distrib. India: Evergreen forests, ca 800 m. Meghalaya.

Endemic.