| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Erythroxylaceae |
| Synonym | Sethia lanceolata Wight |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 15 m high; bark reddish-brown, smooth; blaze red with pink streaks. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules intrapetiolar, on the arrested shoots imbricating; petiole 3-7 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 3-11.5 x 1.5-3 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-obovate, base narrowly attenuate or acute, apex acute or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 4-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, white, axillary, solitary or paired; calyx campanulate; lobes 5-6, ovate, connate at base, valvate; petals 5-6, white, with an erect double ligule on the inner side, ovate-lanceolate; stamens 10-12, monodelphous; ovary superior, oblong, 3-4-celled, ovules 1-2 in each cell; style 3-4, united into a style with capitate stigma. Fruit a drupe, oblong, 1.3-1.5 x 0.2-0.3 cm; seeds 1, oblong. |