Licania hypoleuca Benth.

sistent, erect and parallel to the branchlets. Flowers (said to be white) very small, numerous in leafy, terminal, mostly pyramidal panicles 10-20 cm. long; lower (axillary) branches of the panicle widely divergent, often 6-15 cm. long, most of the flowers borne in racemoid arrangement along secondary branches in 2-to 5-flowered cymules on peduncles 2-5 mm. long; terminal flowers of the cymules often pedicellate 1-3 mm., the lateral ones usually nearly sessile; corolla none; anther-bearing stamens usually 3 (opposite 3 adjoining calyx-lobes), less than 1 mm. long, the filaments subulate, dilated at base and hirsute about the zone of insertion, the anthers about half as long as the filaments; hypanthium campanulate or turbinate, about 1.5-2 mm. long and wide in anthesis, often contracted slightly at mouth, surmounted by the 5 ovate-acute, entire calyx-lobes which are spreading at tips, about 1 mm. long and wide; receptacle thickly hairy within, with a prom-inent fringe of hairs at the somewhat thickened margin, which in addition often bears short sterile filaments alternating with the calyx-lobes, and less often bears very short vestigial filaments elsewhere; ovary sessile at the bottom of the hypan-thium, ovoid-globose, less than 1 mm. long, white-hirsute; style erect (in the flower opposite the stamens and so alternating with the stamenless calyx-lobes), about 2 mm. long, subulate, hirsute except for the slender tip 0.2-0.3 mm. long; developing ovary elongating at base and becoming stipitate at maturity. Fruit pyriform, red, thinly pubescent at least at base, about 1 cm. thick and 2 cm. long (including the attenuate base).

Wet mixed forest at elevations up to 450 metres. Frequently seen in pastures or in wooded swamps. Sandy soils in forest and savannahs.

Can be grown by seedlings.