Bhesa indica (Bedd.) Ding Hou

Tree up to 20 m by 60 cm ø. Stipules lanceolate, 2-3 cm. Leaves oblong-ovate to-lanceolate, 11-40 by 4-15 cm; base rounded or obtuse; apex acute to short-acuminate; nerves 16-21 pairs; petiole up to 11 cm. Panicles up to 15 cm, rachis and stalks puberulous when young; peduncle up to 4 cm. Pedicels c. 2 mm, puberulous. Calyx lobes elliptic-lanceolate, c. 1 by ⅔ mm. Petals slightly obovate-oblong or sometimes elliptic-oblong, c. 2.5 by 1.25 mm, obtuse. Disk flat, subentire. Stamens inserted on the margin of the disk and continuous with it. Ovary broad-obovate or subglobose, c. 1.5 by 2 mm, glabrous, or sometimes slightly hairy at the top; styles almost divided to the base. Fruit 2-lobed to the lower 1/3-1/5, sometimes one of the lobes small and abortive, 2.5-3.5(-5.5) cm long. Seeds ellipsoid, 2 1/3-2.5 by 1.5-1.75 cm, sometimes slightly flattened, the aril covering its lower 1/3 or l/2.

Dense, moist forests usually at 800-2150 m, rarely also occurring at low altitude (KERR 12263 and SF 4177).

The fruit are eaten. They don't have much taste.