Aporosa bourdillonii
Stapf in Hooker's, Icon. Pl. 23: t. 2204. 1894; Gamble, Fl. Madras
2(7): 1309. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 916. 1957).
Mal.: Malamvetti.
Shrubs or trees, 3 - 8 m tall; branchlets initially pilose, finally glabrous. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong or narrowly so, rounded or acute at base, entire along margins, acuminate or caudate at apex, 10 - 17 x 3 - 5.5 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, sparsely pilose on midrib and lateral nerves beneath; lateral nerves 6 - 9 pairs; petioles 10 – 20 mm long. Male inflorescences up to 1 cm long; sepals 3, ovate-oblong, ca 1 x 0.5 mm; stamens 2 or 3, ca 1.2 mm long. Female inflorescences arising singly or a few together; peduncles 5 - 10 mm long, 1- flowered (at the apex); bracts at intervals on axis, sepaline; sepals 4, oblong-lanceolate, 4 - 5 x 1.5 - 2 mm; ovary ovoid, 4 - 5 mm in diam., 3-locular, with numerous linear-subulate processes (up to 2 mm long, hirtellous); styles 3, 4 - 7 mm long, bifid, thick, hirtellous. Fruits ovoid, 15 - 20 x 15 - 20 mm, 3-locular; processes linear, up to 3 mm long, hirtellous.
Fl. & Fr. Dec. – April.
Distrib. India: Rare. In evergreen forests of Western Ghats, at low altitudes. Kerala.
Endemic.
Shrubs or trees, 3 - 8 m tall; branchlets initially pilose, finally glabrous. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong or narrowly so, rounded or acute at base, entire along margins, acuminate or caudate at apex, 10 - 17 x 3 - 5.5 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, sparsely pilose on midrib and lateral nerves beneath; lateral nerves 6 - 9 pairs; petioles 10 – 20 mm long. Male inflorescences up to 1 cm long; sepals 3, ovate-oblong, ca 1 x 0.5 mm; stamens 2 or 3, ca 1.2 mm long. Female inflorescences arising singly or a few together; peduncles 5 - 10 mm long, 1- flowered (at the apex); bracts at intervals on axis, sepaline; sepals 4, oblong-lanceolate, 4 - 5 x 1.5 - 2 mm; ovary ovoid, 4 - 5 mm in diam., 3-locular, with numerous linear-subulate processes (up to 2 mm long, hirtellous); styles 3, 4 - 7 mm long, bifid, thick, hirtellous. Fruits ovoid, 15 - 20 x 15 - 20 mm, 3-locular; processes linear, up to 3 mm long, hirtellous.
Fl. & Fr. Dec. – April.
Distrib. India: Rare. In evergreen forests of Western Ghats, at low altitudes. Kerala.
Endemic.
