| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Boraginaceae |
| Local Name | Pasakaimaram |
| Local Name 2 | Virimaram |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 10 m high, bark 13-18 mm thick, surface yellowish-grey, rough, lenticellate, shallowly furrowed; blaze white. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 25-50 mm long, slender, pubescent, grooved above; lamina 6-19 x 4-11 cm, elliptic, ovate or orbicular; base acute, truncate, subcordate or rounded, apex acute or obtuse; margin entire or crenate, chartaceous, glabrous above, tomentose beneath; nerves 3-5 from the base, palmate, lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, prominent, pinnate, tomentose beneath especially on the axils of nerve; intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, in axillary and terminal cymes, white, calyx tube campanulate, 5 mm long, granular-puberulent on the upper half, densely white strigose on the inner surface, unevenly 4-5 lobed, 2 mm, ovate; corolla 7 mm across, tube 5 mm, lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, recurved, spreading; stamens 5, filaments 4 mm, hairy at base; anthers 3 mm, oblong; ovary superior, 2.5 mm, 4-celled, globose, ovule one in each cell, style 6 mm, coiled; stigma lobes fan shaped. Fruit a drupe, 1 cm long, ovoid, pink, minutely rugose. |