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Information A tree, sometimes reaching 120 ft. high, but usually much smaller.

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Information Tall tree, height up to 40 m., with long straight fluted bole. Young branches, buds and petioles with ferrugineous or golden-brown indumentum. Petioles l–2.5(–4) cm. long. Leaf-lamina narrowly to broadly elliptic, oblanceolate or obovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 7–15(–25) cm. long, 2.3–5.5(–8) cm. wide, obtuse to broadly acute or shortly acuminate, cuneate; lower surface with dense ferrugineous, golden-brown or pale silvery-brown or silvery sericeous indumentum of short closely appressed hairs; midrib and lateral nerves prominently raised, primary lateral nerves 10–17(–24) on each side, arcuate, ascending. Flowers clustered in current leaf axils, shortly pedicellate; pedicels 1–2 mm. long; pedicels and calyx densely ferrugineous pubescent. Sepals broadly ovate, up to 3.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Corolla cream or pale yellowish; tube up to 2 mm. long; lobes rounded, up to 2 mm. long, ciliate. Filaments up to 2 mm. long, flattened; small triangular or ± subulate staminodes occasionally present. Ovary densely pilose; style up to 1.5 mm. long. Fruits very shortly stalked, ± ovoid to subglobose or ellipsoid, up to 4 cm. long, 3 cm. in diameter, with dense reddish-brown pubescence, frequently rubbing away in irregular patches. Seeds dark brown or blackish, obliquely ellipsoid to obovoid, up to 2.8 cm. long and 1.2 cm. wide. Fig. 1.

Information Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent. Stipules absent. Leaves petiolate; lamina coriaceous or chartaceous; primary nerves usually prominent, straight or curved, closely parallel or widely spaced and then usually with longitudinal or transverse vein reticulum; lower surface often with sericeous indumentum. Flowers clustered in current or fallen leaf axils, subsessile or pedicellate, hermaphrodite, normally 5-merous. Sepals 5, ± free to base. Corolla ± equal in length to sepals or longer; lobes usually 5, ± equal in length to or shorter than the cylindrical or campanulate tube. Stamens same number as corolla-lobes and opposite, inserted at throat. Staminodes normally absent, but may be irregularly present. Ovary subglobose to broadly conical, densely pilose, normally 5-locular; ovules solitary with lateral or basi-lateral attachment; style short and stout, ± equal length of ovary or rarely longer. Fruit a subglobose to ovoid or ellipsoid berry; pericarp fleshy or subcoriaceous. Seeds several or sometimes solitary; testa hard and shiny; scar lateral and narrow or sometimes (and not in Africa) broad and extending over the seed surface; endosperm present; embryo with flattened foliaceous cotyledons; radicle basal.

Information Regularly branched evergreen tree 5–45 m. tall, the larger specimens with fluted bole. Young branchlets densely ferrugineous appressed–tomentose, older twigs glabrous, with grey, roughish, longitudinally fissured bark. Leaves coriaceous, clustered at ends of branches. Lamina 5–20 x 1·5–5·5 cm., oblanceolate to narrowly obovate or less often elliptic, the apex usually cuspidate–acuminate or sometimes obtuse, the base narrowly acute. Petiole 8–20 mm. long. Upper leaf surface dark green, appressed–pilose to glabrescent, with inconspicuous impressed midrib and lateral nerves and a fine raised reticulation. Lower surface densely silvery– or ferrugineous–sericeous, with conspicuous prominent midrib and lateral nerves, the latter 16–21 on each side, diverging from the midrib at c. 60°, almost straight except near the margin, here becoming faint and curving towards apex. Flowers subsessile, borne in axils of current leaves or on slightly older wood, in dense fascicles or sometimes solitary. Calyx c. 3·2 mm. long, cup–shaped; lobes ovate, strongly imbricate, appressed–pubescent on both sides, the outer ones a little larger and more leathery. Corolla c. 3·6 mm. long, white; lobes ± equalling tube, ovate, slightly auricled at base, ciliate. Stamens inserted near base of corolla–tube; filaments c. 1·6 mm. long, glabrous; anthers c. 1·2 mm. long. Small fleshy staminodes sometimes present. Gynoecium c. 2·2 mm. long. Fruit up to 4 x 3 cm., globose to ellipsoid, sometimes somewhat apiculate, with dense reddish–brown pubescence often rubbing away in patches, 4–5–seeded. Seeds up to 2·8 x 1·2 cm., dark brown or blackish.

Information Tall tree, height up to 50 m., with long straight ± fluted bole and buttressed base. Young shoots with dense ferrugineous pubescence; older branches blackish-brown and subglabrous. Petioles 1–2 cm. long, twisted, with ferrugineous or greyish-brown pubescence. Leaf-lamina elliptic to oblong or obovate-elliptic, 4–21.5 cm. long, 2–8.5 cm. wide, pellucid dots visible only in thin-textured sapling or youngest shade leaves, apex acute or rounded, base narrowly to broadly cuneate and sometimes decurrent with petiole, margin not or strongly inrolled; lower surface with varying density of ferrugineous pubescence, wearing away or stripping and becoming ± glabrous and with hairs on midrib and nerves only; lateral nerves 10–25 each side. Flowers fascicled in current or fallen leaf axils; pedicels 5–10 mm. long, densely pubescent. Sepals 4 or 5, ovate to ± oblong, up to 6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, pubescent externally with hairs of variable density and size. Corolla cream; tube up to 6.5 mm. long; lobes ± ovate or rounded, up to 2 mm. long. Free part of filaments up to 1.5 mm. long. Staminodes subulate or sometimes expanded and petaloid, up to 1.5 mm. long. Style up to 6.5 mm. long. Fruits greenish, narrowly ellipsoid, up to 4 cm. long, apex with short ± 1 cm. long beak, pubescent or puberulous with short ferrugineous hairs. Seed ovoid to ± narrowly ellipsoid, up to 3 cm. long; testa shiny brown; scar lateral, pale, elliptic. Fig. 4.