Compilation
Phyllogeiton discolor

Shrubs or trees usually no more than 10 m. tall but reported occasionally to 25 m. and with trunks 5–7 dm. thick; wood very hard and heavy; bark deeply checked and tending to shed in sheets. Younger branches conspicuously lenticellate; branchlets 2–20 cm. long, leafy, glabrous to densely pubescent with short spreading whitish hairs. Leaves opposite or nearly so; earliest (lowest) blades of emerging branchlets smallish, elliptic-obovate and blunt, later ones larger, elliptic to ovate-oblong, acute (2–)3–5(–9) cm. long, (l.5–)2–3.5(–6) cm. wide, at the base cuneate or usually rounded, at the apex blunt to acute, green above and glabrous or minutely pubescent near the midrib, beneath slightly paler and microvesiculate and glabrous to densely pubescent with short whitish hairs, on each side of midrib with 6–8 (–9) secondary nerves; petioles (4–)8–10(–13) mm. long, glabrous to pubes-cent. Stipules intra-axillary, 2–4 mm. long, subulate, united about half the length, all but the basal 0.5–1 mm. quickly deciduous. Flowers solitary or usually in fascicles of 2–6 in the axils; pedicels 3–5(–7) mm. long in flower, 4–7(–10) mm. in fruit. Sepals 2–3 mm. long, spreading to reflexed at anthe-sis. Petals 1.8–2.2 mm. long, spreading or weakly arcuate-ascending. Style 1 mm. long, bifid a fourth to a third the length. Disk free from the ovary though thick near its base. Fruit 12–20 mm. long, 7–11 mm. thick, yellow. Fig. 10.