Xantolis tomentosa - Hairy Xantolis

Hairy Xantolis is a small evergreen tree, 3-5 m high. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; leaf-stalk 5-10 mm, slender, velvet-hairy; blade 4-8 x 1.5-3.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate or obovate; base narrowed, tip bluntly pointed, margin entire, woolly beneath when young, hairless when mature, leathery; lateral nerves 10-12 pairs, pinnate, slender; intercostae netveined. Flowers bisexual, white or yellowish white, fragrant, fascicled at leafless nodes. Flowers are somewhat like thos of Mahua. Flower-stalks are 4-5 mm, woolly; sepals 3+3, 6 x 3 mm, ovate, pointed, hairy, inner smaller; flower lobes 5-6, 10 mm long, bell-shaped, tube spherical, throat densely hairy, lobes lanceshaped; stamens 6, filaments linear, anthers ovate or lanceshaped, extrorse, filaments hairy at base; staminodes 4, thread-like, hairy with broad base; ovary 5 celled, superior, densely hairy, conical, ovules on axile placentae; style 10 mm long, cylindric; stigma small. Fruit a berry, 2.5 x 1.5 cm, ovoid, green, apiculate; seeds ellipsoid, shining, brown. Flowering: December-February.