Tree up to 30 (or more) m high and 75 cm ø. Bark pale brown or fawn grey, scaly. Leaves coriaceous, obovate, oblanceolate, 8-18 by 2½-4½ cm; apex obtuse or rounded; base attenuate, rarely cuneate; nerves 10-23 pairs, distinct on both surfaces, sometimes obscure above; veins obscure on both surfaces; petiole flattened, without sharp distinction from the lamina, the narrowest part 1-3 cm long. Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the apical leaf axils, 16-30 cm long, puberulous; sometimes crowded at the apex of twigs and seemingly fasciculate; floral bracts ovate, 2-2½ mm long; pedicels ½4-1½ mm. Flowers deep violet. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes broad-ovate or-elliptic, 1½-2 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals 5, oblong, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 5-6 by 1½-2 mm, without ridges on the inner surface. Disk pulvinate, stipe-like, c. ⅔ mm high. Stamens 10, 5 fertile, ± equal, 3½-5 mm; filaments connate at the base; anthers ovoid-oblong, ½-½4 mm long; staminodes c. ⅔ mm. Ovary obovoid, ½4-½45 mm Ø; style excentric, c. 4 mm. Drupe pyriform, c. 11 by 6 cm (dried, 1 coll.); pale dull green or greyish turning brownish, the flesh dirty white to dirty pinkish, sour and stringy ( CORNER Ways. Trees 1940 110 ).
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A large tree. It grows 30 m tall. The leaves are broadly sword shaped. They are 8-18 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. The flowers are deep violet. The fruit is pear shaped and fleshy. It is 11 cm long by 6 cm wide. The fruit is green with a brownish tint.
Uses. According to CORNER Ways. Trees 1940 110 the coarse fruit of the lanjut has little to commend it, but the poisonousness of the sap will preserve, he hopes, the magnificent trees which are scattered throughout the country: a grander being than an old lanjut is hard to imagine.
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The fruit are only occasionally eaten. They are coarse.
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