Compilation
Gelonium procerum

Tree; twigs slightly angular, glabrous; bark fissured; “wood coarse but clean and white” (Elliot). Leaves short-petioled, subcoriaceous, ovate, subacute or obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire, 1 1/4–4 1/2 in. long, 3/4–2 1/4 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, shining above; nerves 4–6 pairs, with a very close distinct reticulation, each mesh enclosing a vesicular swelling distinct on both surfaces but especially beneath; petiole 2–2 1/2 lin. long. Flowers diœcious, in subsessile fasciculate few-flowered cymes opposite the petioles. Buds globose. Male: Sepals 5–6, glandular, usually unequal, the third and fourth always exceeding and often much larger than the outer and the two inner; the innermost (sixth) often very small, sometimes obsolete. Stamens 20. Female: Sepals 5, not glandular on the back, subequal. Ovary 3-celled, glabrous; styles 2-fid, lobes lanceolate. Fruit shallowly 3-sulcate, 1/3 in. wide, separating into 2-valved cocci; endocarp thinly crustaceous. Seeds subglobose; testa crustaceous not at all foveolate.