Bridelia glauca Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 597. 1826. B. pubescens Kurz in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 42(2): 241. 1874 & Forest Fl. Burma 2: 367. 1877; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 270. 1887; Prain, Bengal Pl. 2: 928. 1903; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam 4: 145. 1940.

Shrubs or trees, 3 - 15 m tall; branchlets tomentose when young, puberulous or pilose to glabrous in age. Leaves elliptic to oblong or lanceolate-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, sometimes broadly elliptic-oblong to obovate, acute or sometimes obtuse or rounded or subequal at base, entire, caudate or acuminate at apex, 6.5 - 20 (- 26) x 3 - 9 (- 11) cm, chartaceous or often membranous, often glossy and glaucescent, glabrous above, tomentellous or sparsely pilose on major nerves or rarely subglabrous beneath; lateral nerves 6 – 12 (- 16) pairs, not terminating at margins but jointing the superadjacents forming loops (brochidodromous); petioles 4 - 10 mm long, pilose to glabrous. Inflorescences borne on main leafy branches, bisexual, many-flowered, 8 - 10 mm in diam.; bracts triangular, up to 1 mm long, puberulous. Male flowers: pedicels 2 - 3 mm long; calyx 4 - 5 mm in diam.; sepals tomentellous outside; petals suborbicular, flabellate or obcordate, up to 1 mm long; disc patelliform, ca 2.5 mm in diam.; staminal column ca 1 mm long; filaments ca 0.5 mm long; anthers broadly oblong, ca 0.6 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 1 - 2 mm long; calyx 4 - 4.5 mm in diam., sepals broadly triangular or ovate-triangular, 2 - 2.5 x 1 - 1.8 mm, tomentellous outside; petals as in male; outer disc ca 2.5 mm in diam., inner disc shortly cupular, ca 0.5 mm long, covering the ovary; ovary ovoid or conoid, ca 0.5 x 1 mm, glabrous; styles 1 - 1.5 mm long, erect, connate below for half way, shortly bifid above. Fruits ovoid to oblong, 8 - 12 x 5 - 8 mm, 1-locular, 1-seeeded, glabrous, red, brownish black when dry.

Fl. & Fr. Feb. - Nov.

Distrib. India: Common in subtropical deciduous forests or moist evergreen forests, up to 1600 m altitude. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura.

Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, S. China to SE. Asia, Malesia to Bismarck Archipelago.

Notes. Chromosome number: 2n = 26 for B. pubescens (Mehra and Hans, Taxon 18: 310. 1969).