Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S. Jain & Bennet in Indian J. For. 9: 271. 1986; Grierson & Long, Fl. Bhutan 2: 35. 1991. Amoora spectabilis Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavum 4: 37. 1868; Hiern in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 561. 1875. A. wallichii King in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 64: 56. 1895. Aglaia hiemii Viswanathan & K. Ramachandran in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 24: 212. 1983, non King 1895 nec Koord. & Valeton ex Koord. 1898. Aphanamixis wallichii (King) Haridasan & R.R. Rao, Forest Fl. Meghalaya 1: 206. 1985.

Tree, to 25 m tall, buttressed; young parts with milky sap; bark grey, nearly smooth; young shoots and inflorescence covered with rusty-brown fimbriated scales and stellate hairs. Leaves 30 - 85 cm long; rachis greyish or rusty, with lepidote scales and stellate hairs. Leaflets 9 - 19, rarely 3 - 7, close to panicles, opposite or alternate, elliptic or ovate-oblong, rounded or slightly cuneate at base, entire along margins, acuminate at apex, 15 - 25(-30) x 7 - 9(-15) cm, almost glabrous except on nerves beneath when mature, subcoriaceous; secondary nerves 12 - 20 on each side; petiolules 1 - 2 cm long, that of the odd leaflet the longest, to 3 cm long. Male panicles much-branched and many-flowered, 30 - 45 cm long; female panicles 7 - 10 cm long. Male flowers smaller than female flowers. Calyx minute, obtusely 3-lobed, lepidote-stellate. Petals 3, free, orbicular, concave, ca 2 mm long, tomentose. Staminal tube urceolate, glabrous; mouth 8 10-lobed or toothed; anthers usually 8, rarely 10, slightly exserted. Ovary in female flowers depressed, pyramidal, prominently 3-angled, yellow-brown-tomentose, 3 - 4-locular; style short or absent; stigma 3 - 4-lobed, large, purple. Pistillode in male flowers similar but slender and with depressed, tawny-pubescent ovary and thick, fleshy, 3-grooved stigma. Capsules subglobose or broadly pyriform, 3 - 5 x 3 - 4 cm, orange-yellow-tomentose, 2 - 3-seeded.

Fl. & Fr. June - Mar.

Distrib. India: W. Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Orissa and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Plains and low hills.

Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malesia and the Fiji Islands.

Notes. Yields a timber of superior quality which is red in colour and used for planks and furniture.