Malouetia A.Dc.

Trees, or sometimes shrubs, to 15 m, mostly glabrous. Leaves elliptic or some-times ovate-elliptic, acuminate, obtuse basally, to 21 cm long and 9 cm wide, glabrous, firmly membranaceous to slightly coriaceous; petioles 3-8 mm long. Inflorescences umbellate, axillary or terminal, the peduncle ca. 2-5 mm long. Flowers with the pedicels ca. 3-5 mm long, minutely papillate; calyx-lobes + equal, slightly keeled, minutely papillose, 1.5-2 mm long, bearing 1-2 squa-mellae; corolla white to greenish-white, minutely papillose, especially on the limb, the tube ca. 4-5 mm long, thickened and somewhat closed at the orifice, slightly expanded at the level of stamen attachment, the lobes obliquely ob-long, ca. 7-9 mm long and 1.2-1.8 mm wide, spreading; stamens included, the anthers ca. 1.8 mm long; ovary softly pubescent, nectaries + 5, the stigma fusi-form. Follicles 2, widely diverging, broadly fusiform, ca. 10(-15) cm long; seeds compressed, ca. 2 cm long.