Nothopegia heyneana
(Hook.f.) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1: 180.
1918. N. colebrookiana (Wight) Blume var. heyneana Hook.f., Fl. Brit: India
2: 40. 1876.
Trees, 4 - 5 m tall; branches glabrous. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong,
4 - 14 x 0.7 - 3.5 cm, obtuse to obtusely acute, puberulous beneath, coriaceous;
petioles 0.4 - 0.7 cm long, glabrous. Racemes axillary, 1.5 - 3 cm long, rusty,
puberulous. Flowers unisexual. Male flowers 2 mm across, sessile. Calyx 4-
lobed; lobes 0.8 x 0.6 mm, margin ciliate with many dark longitudinal swellings
on ventral surface. Petals 4, 1.5 x 0.8 mm, incurved, pubescent beneath. Stamens
4, 1.2 mm long, pubescent. Disc 1 mm in diam., 4-lobed. Female flowers
3 mm across; pedicels 1.5 mm long, pubescent. Ovary 3 mm in diam., sessile,
glabrous; style short, thick; stigma globose. Drupes 1 - 1.5 cm in diam.,
compressed.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong; petioles ca 0.7 cm long; racemes 3 cm or more in length | 4.1. heyneana |
| b. Leaves linear-lanceolate; petioles ca 0.4 cm long; racemes less than 2.5 cm | 4.2. linearifolia |
