Compilation
Homalium wildemanianum

Shrub or usually a tree, 5–10(–20) m., trunk straight, sometimes fluted, up to 40 cm. in diameter; bark smooth, greyish. Branchlets puberulous or glabrous, often purplish brown and with pale lenticels. Leaf-blade subcoriaceous, variable in shape and size, obovate or broad-elliptic, sometimes lanceolate-ovate, ovate or almost rounded, entire or undulate, or ± deeply glandular-serrate-crenate, 5–10(–12) cm. long, (2.5–)3.5–5.5 cm. wide, subacuminate or obtuse, base broadly cuneate to subcordate, glabrous, or with (sometimes subsetular) hairs on midrib and secondary veins, and quite often in the nerve-axils beneath; lateral veins 6–7(–8) pairs, prominent beneath, reticulation rather coarse and but slightly raised beneath; petiole 0.7–1.5(–2) cm. long; stipules caducous. Spike-like racemes solitary or aggregated into subterminal or axillary sparsely branched and laxly flowered panicles up to 12 cm. long. Flowers subsessile, 5–7-merous, greenish-whitish, solitary or often 2 together. Calyx-tube broadly cup-shaped. Sepals puberulous on the back, elliptic or ovate, 3.5–5 mm. long. Petals broadly rhomboid-elliptic or ovate, puberulous dorsally, 3.5–4 mm. long. Stamens in fascicles of 3 opposite the petals; filaments glabrous or hairy, 3.5 mm. Disk-glands discoid, tomentose. Ovary conical, pilose; styles connate to a column below, stigmatic arms free and divergent. Capsule woody, similar in shape to the ovary, with persistent sepals and petals and usually containing 1 seed 2–3 mm. long and 1 mm. wide. Fig. 15.