A small tree whose younger branches as well as the petioles, pedicels, and calyx are covered with small peltate scales. Leaves on long stalks, cordate, ovate, acuminate, 7-nerved, smooth, leathery, entire or sinuous. Stipules falcate. Flowers solitary, axillary, stalked. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Epicalyx of 5 oblong-lanceolate, deciduous segments, as long as or longer than the cup-shaped entire or slightly 5-toothed calyx. Corolla nearly 2 inches in length, four times exceeding the calyx. Fruit roundish, depressed, slightly beaked, 5-celled, indehiscent or opening to a slight extent at the top. Seeds 2 in each cell of the fruit, large, compressed laterally near the hilum, roundish above; testa pubescent, nervose-striate.
Range
Distributed probably by cultivation in India, Ceylon, the W. Indies, the Fiji, and Loochoo island; generally growing in moist situations near the seacoast.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Luabo, Dr. Kirk!East Tropical Africa Mozamb. Dist. Speke!Senegambia Upper Guinea Perrottet! Heudelot!
