Bruinsmia styracoides Boerl. & Koord.

Evergreen tree 15-37 m, diam. 30-150 cm (mostly 25 m by 40 cm); clear bole 7-11 m, without buttresses, bark dirty orange in section. Adult leaves oval to oblong, base mostly rounded, apex acute to acuminate, sparsely hairy, 7½-19 by 3-10 cm; primary nerves 6-10 pairs; petiole sulcate 1-1½ cm long. Thyrses 10-25 cm. Pedicels 2 mm; bracteole narrow, 1-2½ mm long. Calyx 1½ mm high, 5-6½ mm diam. Corolla lobes pubescent on both sides, tip cap-shaped, ovate-oblong, acute, 9-10 by 4-4½ mm. Stamens 5-5½ and 6-6½ mm, sometimes subequal 3½-4mm; filaments glabrous or short-hairy inside and marginal; cells 1½-3 mm long. Ovary 2-2½ mm high, 3-3½ mm diam. Style 3-5 mm long. Fruit 6 by 9 to 10 by 6 mm; style remnant ¾-6 mm long. Seeds 1½ mm long.

In primary or partly devastated forests, rather rare; globose leaf-galls ½-1 cm diam. are found in Borneo and New Guinea.

Uses. Wood not durable and besides the tree is rare, though dimensions would be sufficient.