Aporosa fusiformis Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 288. 1861; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 351. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1309. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 916. 1957).

Shrubs or trees 2 - 8 m tall; branchlets glabrous. Leaves obovate or broadly so to suborbicular or sometimes broadly elliptic, rounded to obtuse or narrowly cuneate to acute at base, entire and often minutely glandular-notched along margins, apiculate or obtuse to rounded or retuse at apex, (3 -) 5 - 18 x (1.5 -) 3 - 8 cm, thinly to stiffly coriaceous, glabrous, often glossy above; lateral nerves 4 - 7 pairs; petioles 5 - 15 (- 25) mm long, glabrous. Male inflorescences clustered, 1 - 3 cm long; bracts subreniform; sepals 4 or 5, triangular to oblong, 1 - 1.2 x 0.4 - 0.6 mm; stamens 2 or 3, 2.5 - 3 mm long. Female inflorescences fasciculate; sepals suborbicular, ca 1.5 x 1.5 mm; ovary ovoid-ellipsoid, 2 (- 3)-locular, densely puberulous, soon glabrous; styles 2 (or 3), 3 - 3.5 mm long; basal column 1 - 1.5 mm long; stigmas 2-lobed. Fruits ellipsoid or fusiform, shortly beaked, 15 - 20 x 8 - 10 mm, glabrous, thin-walled or sometimes slightly fleshy; seeds oblong, subconvex, ca 8 mm long.

Fl. & Fr. March - June.

Distrib. India: Rare. Evergreen hill forests, from 600 to 1400 m altitudes. Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Sri Lanka.