Bridelia verrucosa Haines in J. Bot. 59: 189, 193. 1921 & Bot. Bihar Orissa, Pt. 2: 119. 1921; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam 4: 144. 1940, p. p. excl. syn. B. montana sensu Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 269. 1887, p. p. (Jharkhand specimens), non (Roxb.) Willd., 1805. B. sikkimensis sensu D.G.Long in Grierson & D.G.Long, Fl. Bhutan 1(3): 768. 1987, p. p., quoad syn. B. verrucosa Haines, non Gehrm. 1908.

Shrubs or trees, 2.5 - 5 m tall; young shoots reddish velutinous, otherwise almost entirely glabrous. Leaves obovate (or broadly so), cuneate-obovate, orbicular-obovate or oblongelliptic to suborbicular, acute, obtuse, rounded or cuneate at base, entire to undulate along margins, rounded, apiculate or emarginate at apex, 7 - 16 x 3.5 - 10.5 cm, thinly coriaceous, sometimes glossy, mostly glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 10 - 19 pairs, terminating at margins into marginal vein; petioles 4 - 11 mm long; stipules not seen. Inflorescences on main leafy branches, 5 - 10 mm across, dense-flowered, unisexual; bracts broadly ovate-oblong or triangular,1- 1.5 x 1 - 1.2 mm, pilose to glabrous, characteristically brown to orange brown when dry and almost hyaline. Male flowers: sessile; calyx 3 - 4 mm across; sepals oblong, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, 1.6 - 2 x ca 1 mm; petals oblong-elliptic, spathulate-obovate to oblanceolate, 1 - 1.5 x 0.7 - 1 mm; disc ca 1 mm in diam., staminal column 0.5 - 1 mm long; filaments ca 0.5 mm long; anthers ovoid, ca 0.6 mm long; pistillode ovoid, ca 0.5 mm long. Female flowers: sessile; calyx 3 - 5 mm in diam.; sepals linear-oblong or triangular-oblong, 2 - 2.5 x ca 1 mm; petals spathulate, obovate or narrowly elliptic, 0.7 - 1.5 x 0.3 - 0.6 mm; outer disc ca 1.8 mm across; inner disc conic, covering the ovary; ovary subglobose, ca 1 mm in diam., glabrous, 1-locular; styles ca 1 mm long, free, bifid. Fruits sessile, subglobose, ovoid or ellipsoid, 5 - 8 x 4 - 6 mm, smooth, 1-locular; seed solitary.

Fl. & Fr. Jan. - Oct.

Distrib. India: Scarce, deciduous forests, primary forests, sub Himalayan tracts and stream sides, up to 1200 m altitude. Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan.