Drypetes confertiflora
(Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV.147.xv (heft 81):
246. 1922; Chakrab. et al. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 21: 259. 1997. Cyclostemon confertiflorus
Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 341. 1887; T.Cooke, Fl. Bombay 2(3): 591. 1906; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7):
1302. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 911. 1957).
Kan.: Angai-mara ; Mal.: Kaduvapidukkan.
Tall trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, unequal at base, denticulate to repand-serrulate along margins, acuminate or sometimes sub-acuminate at apex, 8 - 23 x 2.5 - 8 cm, stiffly coriaceous, glossy, glabrous; lateral nerves 5 - 9 pairs; petioles 4 - 9 mm long. Inflorescences cauliflorous. Male flowers: arising from coralliform glomerules, glabrous; pedicels 4 - 5 mm long; sepals 5 or 6, suborbicular, 4 - 6 x 3.5 - 5.5 mm; stamens 15 - 20, 2.5 - 4 mm long; anthers oblong, ca 1 mm long; disc impressed, shortly cupular, ribbed, with thin, raised margins. Female flowers: not seen (reported to be sessile, with shortly cupular disc, and browntomentose 2-locular ovary with 2 large semicircular stigmas). Fruits sessile to subsessile,subglobose or cubical, 3.5 - 5 cm in diam., somewhat flattened, evanescently pubescent, 2- locular; endocarp fleshy.
Fl. & Fr. Nov. - April.
Distrib. India: Evergreen rain forests, at low altitudes, very rare. Maharashtra and Karnataka (Coorg and N. Kanara Districts).
Endemic.
Uses. Fruits used as fish-poison.
Tall trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, unequal at base, denticulate to repand-serrulate along margins, acuminate or sometimes sub-acuminate at apex, 8 - 23 x 2.5 - 8 cm, stiffly coriaceous, glossy, glabrous; lateral nerves 5 - 9 pairs; petioles 4 - 9 mm long. Inflorescences cauliflorous. Male flowers: arising from coralliform glomerules, glabrous; pedicels 4 - 5 mm long; sepals 5 or 6, suborbicular, 4 - 6 x 3.5 - 5.5 mm; stamens 15 - 20, 2.5 - 4 mm long; anthers oblong, ca 1 mm long; disc impressed, shortly cupular, ribbed, with thin, raised margins. Female flowers: not seen (reported to be sessile, with shortly cupular disc, and browntomentose 2-locular ovary with 2 large semicircular stigmas). Fruits sessile to subsessile,subglobose or cubical, 3.5 - 5 cm in diam., somewhat flattened, evanescently pubescent, 2- locular; endocarp fleshy.
Fl. & Fr. Nov. - April.
Distrib. India: Evergreen rain forests, at low altitudes, very rare. Maharashtra and Karnataka (Coorg and N. Kanara Districts).
Endemic.
Uses. Fruits used as fish-poison.
