Slender, glabrous tree to 10 m tall; bark grey-white, flaking; twigs often appearing angled or flattened. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to slightly oblanceolate, mostly 4-10 cm long and 1.5-4.5 cm broad, acuminate at the apex, acute at the base with entire margins, the lamina upfolded from the somewhat recurved This content downloaded from 192.104.39.2 on Tue, 14 May 2013 16:07:58 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions588 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 60 midrib; petioles 3 (rarely 12) mm long, channeled above. Inflorescence of solitary, axillary, almost terminal flowers; the peduncle to 6 mm long, often (especially in fruit) almost absent, bearing several scalelike bracts; pedicels glabrous, 5-15 mm long, broadening gradually upwards. Flowers showy, calyx yellow, ellipsoidal, appearing tubular when dried, ca. 15 mm long, often con-spicuously striate-verrucose with corky excrescences, coriaceous, the lobes obtuse, ca. 4 mm long, converging on the corolla tube, the entire calyx enlarging some-what and splitting at one or more sinuses in fruit; corolla very showy, deep purple fading to white before falling but maintaining a small yellow eye, tube 3-4 cm long and 3-4 mm broad, slightly curved, the limb salverform, 3-4 cm across plus the 5, orbicular lobes, 2.5 cm long; stamens included, the filaments glabrous, inserted in the upper part of the corolla tube, the anthers small, crescent shaped, 1-thecate; ovary glabrous, ca. 1.5 mm long, the style, glabrous, the stigma with 2 unequal discoid lobes. Fruit a leathery, dark greenish-brown, globose-ovoid berry, usually warty, 1.5-2.5 cm across, the apex usually crossed by a pair of sutures; seeds many, prismatic, 9 mm long, with a soft thick translucent testa which drys reddish brown.
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