Bridelia sikkimensis Gehrm. in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 41, Beibl. 95: 34. 1908; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam 4: 147. 1940; D.G.Long in Grierson & D.G.Long, Fl. Bhutan 1(3): 768. 1987, p. p. excl. syn. B. sikkimensis var. minuta Gehrm., l. c. 34. 1908. B. cuneata Gehrm., l. c. 34. 1908; Kanjilal et al., l. c. 146. 1940. B. montana sensu Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 269. 1887, p. p. (the Khasia plants only).

Shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall, entirely glabrous. Leaves obovate, cuneate-obovate, obovate-oblong, obovate-elliptic or broadly so, rounded, obtuse or acute at base, entire, apiculate to acuminate or caudate at apex, 6 - 23 x 3.5 - 12 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, often glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 7 - 15 pairs, branching near margins and forming loops with the superadjacents; branchlets from the loops terminating at margins into the marginal nerves (brochidodromous); petioles 4 - 11 mm long. Inflorescences arising on main leafy branches, 4 - 11 mm in diam., unisexual, the females few-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels 1 - 1.5 mm long; calyx 3.5 - 4 mm in diam.; sepals, ca 1 x 1 mm; petals spathulate or oblong, ca 0.5 mm long; disc disciform, flat, 1 - 3 mm in diam.; staminal column ca 0.5 mm long; filaments ca 0.5 mm long; anthers ellipsoid, ca 0.6 mm long; pistillode small. Female flowers: pedicels 1 - 2 mm long; calyx 3 - 5 mm in diam.; sepals triangular to ovate-triangular, 1.3 - 2 x 0.8 - 1.3 mm; petals spathulate, obovate or suborbicular, ca 1 x 0.7 mm; outer disc ca 2.5 mm in diam., inner disc cupular, almost enclosing the ovary; ovary subglobose, 1 - 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous, 2-locular; styles 1 - 1.5 mm long, connate below into a column (ca 0.5 mm long), shortly to deeply bifid above. Fruits oblong to ellipsoid, 5 - 7 x 3 - 4 mm, slightly bilobed, 2-locular or by abortion 1- locular; seed 1,

Fl. May - Sept.; Fr. Sept. - Nov.

Distrib. India: Margins of subtropical and warm broad-leaved forests (Long, l. c. 1987), at 200 - 1600 m altitudes. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.

Bhutan and Bangladesh.