Fagraea elliptica Roxb.

Tree up to 45 m by 0.15-1.5 m ø, sometimes with buttresses up to 1 m high, or shrub, rarely a vine. Leaves usually lanceolate or oblong to obovate, sometimes broadly obovate, 7.5-24(-32) by 1¾-15 cm, thinly to thickly coriaceous, base acute to slightly attenuate, apex mostly short-to long-acuminate, less often obtuse, rarely broadly rounded or subretuse; nerves 6—20 pairs, faintly to distinctly conspicuous, often slightly impressed above, beneath usually distinctly prominulous or (in thick leaves) hardly visible; petiole varying from rather thin to robust, 1-4 cm long. Stipules connate into a 1.5-7.5 mm long ocrea which may split into rounded axillary scales, partly adnate to the petiole. Inflorescences terminal and often also in the topmost leaf-axils, up to 30 cm wide, often much smaller, very many-flowered; peduncle 1-13 cm; pedicels during anthesis 1-4 mm (later up to 6 mm), often provided with 2 minute bracteoles inserted about halfway or somewhat lower down. Calyx campanulate, 2—3 mm long, divided ± halfway. Corolla: tube narrow, cylindric, 3.5-6(-8) mm. Stamens erect or later reflexed; anthers oblong, 1.5 mm long, cells free in the basal half. Style (accrescent during anthesis ?) varying from 1.5 mm and included to 1.75 cm and far exserted; stigma small, capitate, very obscurely 2-lobed. Berry globose, 0.5-0.75 cm ø, tipped by a minute circular style-rest, orange-coloured to brick-red.

In very different sites, both on dry and on marshy or temporarily inundated soils, mostly on sand, often along rivers, in humid forests, open forests, shrubberies, heath forest, grass wastes, rocky strand forest, also as a shrub on open dry hill-tops, from sea-level up to 1800 m. Fl. (mainly April-June), fr. Jan.-Dec.

Uses. The brownish to pale yellow, medium to very hard, very durable wood is used for housebuilding, for bridges, and for padi pounders. Also used medicinally against stomach-ache.

Can be grown by seedlings.