| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Clusiaceae (Guttiferae) |
| Local Name | Pulimaram |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 10 m high, bark 5-6 mm thick, rough, brown, pustular; exudation orange yellow; branchlets 4 angled, glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 6-8 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 7.5-14 x 1.2-3 cm, linear, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, base acute, decurrent into the petiole, apex acuminate, glabrous, shining, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-20 pairs, pinnate, slender, ascending, prominent, looped near the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers polygamodioecious, yellow; male flowers: axillary, solitary or often 2-3, sessile; sepals 4, equal, orbicular, concave, thinly coriaceous; petals 4, 4.5-5 x 3.5 mm, yellow, obovate, distinctly concave; stamens 18-20, often united in a column enclosing the tetragonal stylodium, filaments free above, anthers peltate; pistillode tetragonal; female flowers: axillary, solitary, sessile; sepals and petals as in male flowers; ovary superior, almost globular, usually 4-locular, stigmas sessile, large. Fruit a berry, 11-13 x 9-11 mm, subglobose, smooth, pale green with persistent stigma and sepals; seeds 4, 9.5 x 4.5 mm. |