Nothopegia colebrookiana
(Wight) Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bot.
1: 203. 1850; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 40. 1876. Pegia colebrookiana Wight,
lc. t. 236. 1839.
Kan.: Ulagera; Mal.: Sonemous; Mar.: Amberi.
Trees, 4 - 9 m tall; branchlets glabrous; scars at lower portion of twigs, rusty pubescent. Leaves obovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 5 - 20 x 2.5 - 3.75 cm, acute to short acuminate, glabrous above, puberulous beneath, coriaceous; petioles 1 - 1.5 cm long, glabrous, longitudinally channelled. Racemes axillary, 3 - 4 cm long, arising from axes of leaf. Male flower buds 1 mm in diam. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes 0.5 x 0.7 mm, densely pubescent above. Petals oblong, 4, 0.8 x 0.5 mm, incurved, ciliate. Stamens 4, 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Disc o.5 mm in diam. Carpels absent. Female flowers not seen. Drupes ovoid, 1.25 cm in diam.
Fl. & Fr. : Jan. - May.
Distrib. India : Western Ghats. Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Sri Lanka.
Trees, 4 - 9 m tall; branchlets glabrous; scars at lower portion of twigs, rusty pubescent. Leaves obovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 5 - 20 x 2.5 - 3.75 cm, acute to short acuminate, glabrous above, puberulous beneath, coriaceous; petioles 1 - 1.5 cm long, glabrous, longitudinally channelled. Racemes axillary, 3 - 4 cm long, arising from axes of leaf. Male flower buds 1 mm in diam. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes 0.5 x 0.7 mm, densely pubescent above. Petals oblong, 4, 0.8 x 0.5 mm, incurved, ciliate. Stamens 4, 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Disc o.5 mm in diam. Carpels absent. Female flowers not seen. Drupes ovoid, 1.25 cm in diam.
Fl. & Fr. : Jan. - May.
Distrib. India : Western Ghats. Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Sri Lanka.
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