Terminalia kangeanensis Slooten

Medium-sized tree. Young branchlets fairly stout at first with appressed fulvous or golden pubescence, later glabrescent. Leaves papyraceous or chartaceous, spirally arranged and crowded at the ends of the branchlets, appressed-pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, usually conspicuously minutely verruculose above and manifestly pellucid-punctate, sometimes (or perhaps more correctly at some stages) not verruculose and opaque, obovate, obovate-ellptic or elliptic, 10-17 by 5-9½ cm, rounded, obtuse or shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base; nerves 8-12 pairs, with glabrous or only slightly hairy domatia in their axils; petiole at first appressed-pubescent, eventually glabrescent, 2-3 cm. Flowers sessile, in axillary spikes 8-12 cm long; rhachis appressed-pubescent. Bracts not seen. Lower receptacle (ovary) densely sericeous 2½ mm long, narrowed at the apex then expanding into the shallow-cupuliform appressed-pubescent upper receptacle, 1 by 3 mm. Calyx-lobes ovate, triangular appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 2 by 2 mm. Filaments glabrous, 4 mm; anthers 0.4 mm long. Disk pilose. Style glabrous, 4 mm. Fruit glabrous when mature, ellpsoid, only slightly compressed, 2½-3½ by 1.3-1½ cm, rather obscurely longitudinally ridged, showing in cross-section a band of sclerenchymatous tissue round the loculus with about 5 spoke-like projections with rather large honey-combed air-chambers lying between them.

Tree growing along the shore in the Barringtonia association and in mixed rain-forest on limestone at 50 m. The fruit appears adapted for water-distribution.