Carallia brachiata Lour.

Evergreen trees; to 25 m; bark 10-12 mm thick, dark grey, corky, furrowed, prominently pustular-lenticellate; blaze pink, petiole 6-10 mm stout, glabrous; lamina 4-11 x 2-7 cm, obovate, or obovate-oblong, base attenuate or acute, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, recurved, coriaceous, glabrous and glossy; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, slender, pinnate, obscure, secondary laterals present; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, cream coloured, sessile, small, in short, trichotomous axillary branching cymes; bracteoles minute, calyx tube campanulate, lobes 5-8, ovate, acute, valvate; petals 5-8, clawed, orbicular-cordate, margin deeply lacerate, reddish, inserted on a crenulate disc; disc 10-16 lobed; stamens 10-16, inserted with them on the disc, one of each pair opposite the petal, slightly longer than the other filament, which is opposite to a sepal; filaments filiform; anthers small; ovary half inferior, 3-5-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; style subulate; stigma 4-lobed. Fruit a drupe, 5-6 mm across, red, filiform; seed one, bright orange, subreniform.