Dysoxylum malabaricum Beddome ex Hiern in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 548. 1875. D. glandulosum Talb. Syst. List Trees Bombay 39. 1894.

Tree, 30 - 40 m tall, ca 1.5 m in girth; bark grey with white warts. Leaves 30 - 35 cm long; leaflets 4 - 5 pairs, elliptic-oblong, 5 - 23 x 4 - 8 cm, pale-green, puberulous when young; secondary nerves 10 - 20 on each side, prominent beneath; petiolules 6 - 12 mm long. Panicles axillary, 10 - 20 cm long, crowded near ends of branches. Flowers ca 6 mm long, fragrant, white; pedicels 3 - 6 mm long. Calyx deeply 4-lobed; lobes more or less obtuse. Petals 4, linear-oblong, subacute, pubescent outside, imbricate. Staminal tube tubular or urceolate, more or less 4-angled, with 8 deep emarginate crenatures; anthers 8, included. Disk cup-shaped, truncate, equalling or half as long as ovary, crenulate and ciliate on margin, pubescent inside. Ovary white-tomentose, 4-locular with 2 collateral ovules in each; style as long as staminal tube; stigma capitate. Capsules pyriform,5 - 6.5 cm across, verrucose, bright yellow, with 4-longitudinal furrows; seeds 3 - 4, bluntly 3-gonous; testa reddish-brown.

Fl. & Fr. Feb. - June.

Distrib. India: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Endemic.

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