Cinnamomum wightii Meissn.

Trees, to 8 m high, bark 5-10 mm, grey, smooth, thin, pustular, without taste or smell; blaze pale reddish-brown; branchlets stiff, smooth, glabrous. Apical bud small, densely minutely sericeous. Leaves simple, opposite or spirally arranged, estipulate; petiole 10-20 mm long, stout, flattened above, lamina 3.5-20 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, ovate, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, base cuneate, slightly decurrent, apex obtusely acute or obtusely shortly acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, glossy above, pale, subglaucous, smooth or obscurely, minutely pitted beneath, coriaceous, 3-5 or sometimes 7-ribbed from at or a little above the base, very slender, slightly prominulous, the side ribs reaching  half to two third the lamina length, becomes obscure; intercostae scalariform, very faint; reticulation areolate. Flowers bisexual, 5-6 mm long, densely fulvous-sericeous, in axillary and pseudo-terminal, short and compact but long peduncled panicle of 10-14 cm long; peduncle stout; branchlets few upto 1 cm, densely, minutely adpressed fulvous pilose; pedicel 5 mm long, thick, obconic; perianth tube 1 m long, funnel shaped; tepals 6, 3-5 mm long, thick, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute; stamens 9 perfect, in 3 rows, upto 2 mm long, those of first and second row opposite the perianth lobes, introrse and eglandular, those of third row opposite the first row, extrorse bearing large stipitate glands as long as filaments; filaments pilose, anthers 4-celled, broadly ovate; staminodes of fourth row opposite the second row, narrowly sagittate, pilose, stipitate, almost as long as the stamens; ovary ellipsoid, half inferior; style as long with minute, peltate stigma. Fruit a berry, upto 1 x 1.5 cm, ellipsoid, subtended by fleshy obconical pedicel, margin 1 cm across bearing 0.5 mm long basal remnants of the tepals.