Polyalthia simiarum
(Hook. f. & Thomson) Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit.
India 1 : 63. 1872, p. p. Guatteria simiarum Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 142. 1855.
Asm.: Boga-khamtoi, Borkoliori; Kh.: Dieng-ja-roi; Or.: Hajarh, Mongal, Ojher,
Sant.: Dighi-bentia.
Trees, 15 - 25 m tall; bark light grey, smooth except horizontal wrinkles and vertical fissures; branches thin, glabrous; young shoots puberulous. Leaves bifarious, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, subcordate, rounded to subacute at base, acute to shortly acuminate at apex, entire, 15 - 30 x 5 - 11 cm, subcoriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 12 - 18 pairs, arcuate; petioles 5 - 9 mm long. Flowers yellowish green, 3.5 - 4 cm across, 3 - 5 fascicled in axils of fallen leaves or on tubercles on older branches; peduncles 3 - 6 mm long; pedicels 3 - 4 mm long, slender, minutely pubescent; bracts 1 - 2, submedian and basal, ca 1 mm across. Sepals 3, broadly ovate to triangular, reflexed, ca 3 x 2.5 mm, pubescent outside. Petals 6 (3 + 3), linear-lanceolate, acute to subacute, thickly coriaceous, puberulous outside, glabrous inside except the base, greenish yellow to purplish; outer petals 2 - 3 x 0.3 - 0.4 cm; inner ones 2.5 - 3 x 0.3 - 0.4 cm. Stamens numerous, subglobose, less than 1 mm long; connectives flat to almost round at top. Carpels many, ca 1 mm long; ovule 1, basal, erect; style short; stigma spathulate. Ripe carpels ca 40, ovoid to ellipsoid, apiculate, 2.5 - 3.5 cm long, glabrous, orange red to bluish black when ripe; stalks 2 - 4 cm long. Seed 1, oblong-ovoid, grooved, transversely ribbed,2.5 - 2.8 cm long, 1.2 - 1.5 cm thick.
Fl. April - Aug.; Fr. July - Nov.
Distrib. India: West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and Orissa.
Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
Notes. The wood is useful for tea-chests. The bark fibres can be made into ropes.
Trees, 15 - 25 m tall; bark light grey, smooth except horizontal wrinkles and vertical fissures; branches thin, glabrous; young shoots puberulous. Leaves bifarious, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, subcordate, rounded to subacute at base, acute to shortly acuminate at apex, entire, 15 - 30 x 5 - 11 cm, subcoriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 12 - 18 pairs, arcuate; petioles 5 - 9 mm long. Flowers yellowish green, 3.5 - 4 cm across, 3 - 5 fascicled in axils of fallen leaves or on tubercles on older branches; peduncles 3 - 6 mm long; pedicels 3 - 4 mm long, slender, minutely pubescent; bracts 1 - 2, submedian and basal, ca 1 mm across. Sepals 3, broadly ovate to triangular, reflexed, ca 3 x 2.5 mm, pubescent outside. Petals 6 (3 + 3), linear-lanceolate, acute to subacute, thickly coriaceous, puberulous outside, glabrous inside except the base, greenish yellow to purplish; outer petals 2 - 3 x 0.3 - 0.4 cm; inner ones 2.5 - 3 x 0.3 - 0.4 cm. Stamens numerous, subglobose, less than 1 mm long; connectives flat to almost round at top. Carpels many, ca 1 mm long; ovule 1, basal, erect; style short; stigma spathulate. Ripe carpels ca 40, ovoid to ellipsoid, apiculate, 2.5 - 3.5 cm long, glabrous, orange red to bluish black when ripe; stalks 2 - 4 cm long. Seed 1, oblong-ovoid, grooved, transversely ribbed,2.5 - 2.8 cm long, 1.2 - 1.5 cm thick.
Fl. April - Aug.; Fr. July - Nov.
Distrib. India: West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and Orissa.
Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
Notes. The wood is useful for tea-chests. The bark fibres can be made into ropes.
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