Dysoxylum gobarum (Buch.- Ham.) Merr. in J. Arn. Arb. 23: 173. 1942; Balakr., Fl. Jowai 1: 123. 1981. Guarea gobara Buch.- Ham. in Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 6: 306, f. 1. 1832. Dysoxylum procerum Hiern in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 547. 1875.

Tree, to 25 m tall; bark smooth, grey, scaly when mature, pink or reddish brown with white streaks inside, exuding milky resin; young shoots and inflorescence pubescent. Leaves 30 - 60 cm long; leaflets 7 - 13, opposite or alternate, ovate, ovate-oblong or oblong-elliptic, cuneate, rounded or obtuse at base, entire along margins, acute at apex, 10 - 25 x 7 - 10 cm, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; secondary nerves 12 - 16 on each side; petiolules stout, 5 - 12 mm long. Panicles 30 - 50 cm long. Flowers bracteate, 7 - 10 mm across, creamy white, fragrant; pedicels short. Calyx cup-shaped, 4 - 5-toothed. Petals 4, oblong, appressed-pubescent, valvate or slightly imbricate. Staminal tube glabrous; anthers 8 - 10. Disk elongate, to 2/3 as long as staminal tube; mouth hairy. Ovary hairy, 2 - 3-locular; style slightly exceeding staminal tube. Capsules pyriform-globose, 5 - 6 cm across, 3 - 4-locular; pericarp thick; seeds black with orange aril.

Fl. & Fr. Dec. - Aug.

Distrib. India: Evergreen forests; Sikkim, Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya.

Myanmar.

Notes. Grierson and Long (Flora of Bhutan 2(1): 37. 1991) reported the presence of D. excelsum Blume in Darjeeling (West Bengal) and synonymized D. procerum Hiern there under.