Anacolosa Blume

Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, entire. Flowers in axillary cymes. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-7-lobed. Petals 5-6, free, valvate, hairy within. Stamens equal to the number of petals; filaments slender; anthers .very small, globose. Staminodes absent. Ovary 1-loculed; style conical; stigma shortly lobed. Drupes surrounded by accrescent disc.

Tropical Africa, Indo-Malaya and Pacific; about 21 species, 4 in India.

KEY TO THE SPECIES

1a. Inflorescence pedunculate for 6-10 mm; peduncle without numerous bracteoles or scales

4. Anacolosa ilicoides

b. Inflorescence nearly sessile, with numerous bracts or scales

2

2a. Calyx puberulous

2. Anacolosa frutescens

b. Calyx glabrous

3

3a. Leaves oblong, smooth in dried specimens; cymes many-flowered

1. Anacolosa densiflora

b. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-Ianceolate, tubercled at least on the undersurface in dried specimens; cymes few-flowered

3. Anacolosa griffithii

List of Lower Taxa