Polyosma wallichii - Toothed-Leaf Featherwood

Toothed-Leaf Featherwood is a small evergreen tree 5-15 m tall. Young branchlets finely velvet-hairy. Leaves are opposite, usually clustered at tip of branchlets; leaf-stalk 1.5-2.7 cm, finely velvet-hairy; leaf blade elliptic-inverted-lanceshaped or oblong-elliptic, 12.0-19.0 x 3-6.5 cm, thinly leathery, base wedge-shaped to blunt, margin entire to sparsely toothed, tip narrowed to tapering. below surface slightly finely velvet-hairy to hairless, prominently finely velvet-hairy along midvein and lateral veins, above hairless or sometimes slightly finely velvet-hairy, midvein and 13-20 pairs lateral veins sunken above and raised below. Inflorescences in upright unbranched spike-like clusters 9-24 cm with many flowers. Bracts linear to linear-lanceshaped, about 5 mm, falling off. Rachis green to pale yellow green, finely velvet-hairy. Flowers buds cylindrical, pale yellow green to white, about 1.5 cm. Flower-stalk 3-4 mm, finely velvet-hairy, with 3 bracteoles at base, the central one is larger, lanceshaped or liner-triangle. Sepal-cup tube finely velvet-hairy, 2-2.5 mm; lobes ovate-triangular, minute, 1-1.5 mm 4 petals white, linear or narrowly strap-shaped, about 1.5 cm, free at base, tip pointed, becoming strongly recurved when mature, finely velvet-hairy both sides. Stamens 4, shorter than petals, about 1.2 cm, filaments hairy, anthers 4.5-5 mm. Ovary finely velvet-hairy. Style is shorter than petals, 1.2-1.3 cm, slender at base, hairy-chested in the middle. Berry cylindrical to ovoid, 1.4-1.6 × 0.8-0.9 cm, pale yellow green to white, and then pale blue to deep blackish blue when mature, black when dry. Seeds ovoid, about 1.4 × 0.8 cm.