Compilation
Schizocalyx coriaceus

A much-branched evergreen shrub or tree, up to 1.8–7.5 m. tall; bark green to dark grey, fissured into rectangular patches; wood pale butter-yellow when cut. Leaves olive-green, opposite; lamina coriaceous, elliptic to ovate or obovate, rarely lanceolate or orbicular, 1.5–9 cm. long, 0.7–5.6 cm. wide, mostly obtuse but often acute, usually mucronulate, glabrous or if glands present, then extremely minute but dense; venation often obscure, though sometimes prominent and reticulate; petiole 3.5–4 mm. long. Flowers white, 3.5–5 mm. long (mostly large in the Flora area but smaller in India and Arabia), in axillary and terminal panicles. Calyx minutely papillate. Staminal tube sometimes with small teeth alternating with the upper free parts of the filaments. Ovule solitary in the ovary. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, (1.8–)1.9–2.4 cm. long, 1–1.3 cm. across. Seeds ovoid, flattened, 12 mm. long, 7.5 mm. wide. Fig. 2/11–14.