Compilation
Holarrhena tettensis

A small tree, up to 25 ft. high; young branches generally more or less pubescent or tomentose, later on glabrescent, rarely glabrous from the beginning, terete, brown, copiously dotted with lenticels. Leaves elliptic or oblong, rarely ovate or roundish, obtuse, shortly acuminate or acute, rounded or acute at the base, 2–6 in. long, 1 1/2–3 in. broad, hairy on both sides, often tomentose beneath, or glabrescent or quite glabrous; secondary nerves 8–14 on each side; veins in glabrous specimens sometimes distinct; petioles 2–3 lin. long. Corymbs pubescent to almost villous, rarely glabrous; peduncle about 3 lin. or less long; pedicels up to 5 lin. long. Calyx 3–5 lin. long, pubescent, rarely glabrous; sepals subulate, the inner with 1 or 2 small basal glands within. Corolla-tube puberulous, rarely glabrous without, about 6–8 lin. long; lobes oblong or obovate-oblong, as long as the tube or slightly shorter. Anthers slightly over 1/2 lin. long, decurrent tips very slender, about 1/3– 1/4 the length of the polliniferous part of the anther-cell. Follicles very slender, more or less constricted between the seeds, 10–12 in. long. Seeds 7–9 lin. long, coma 1 1/2 in. long.