| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Boraginaceae |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Small trees, to 10 m high; bark 8.5 mm, pale brown or dark grey, stringy; branchlets sparsely hairy. Leaves simple, subopposite and alternate, estipulate; petiole 20-50 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-13 x 3-8 cm, ovate, base acute or rounded, apex acuminate; margin entire or serrate, scabrous, membranous; 3 nerved from base, lateral nerves 3 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, white, 8.5 mm across, in terminal dichotomous, long peduncled corymbose cymes; pedicel pilose; calyx 14 mm long, cupular, densely woolly within, sparsely hairy outside, accrescent; corolla 20 mm long, campanulate, lobes 7-9, oblong, obtuse; stamens 8, alternately long and short; filaments shorter than corolla lobes, hairy at base; ovary superior, obovoid, 4-celled, ovule one in each cell; style short or absent; stigma sessile, 2 lobed. Fruit a drupe, 3 x 1.5 cm, ellipsoid, glabrous, acute; seed one. |