Xylopia collina Diels

Small or medium-sized shrub 1–2 m. tall; young stems densely covered with rather long spreading greyish hairs, later glabrescent and the bark tending to break into tiny pieces, lenticellate.. Leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 1.3–6.5 cm. long, 0.8–3.5 cm. wide, rounded to subacute and sometimes apiculate at the apex, shallowly but distinctly cordate (or rarely rounded) at the base, papery, adpressed pilose on both surfaces and with longer spreading hairs on the margins and midrib beneath; venation reticulate but scarcely prominent; petioles 2–5 mm. long, spreading pilose.. Flowers solitary, sessile or pedicel short (± 2 mm. long); bracteoles 1–2, ovate or reniform, 1.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide.. Sepals ovate-triangular, 2.5–3 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. wide, obtuse or subacute, pubescent outside, glabrous and reddish inside.. Petals crimson; outer lanceolate, 1.3–1.6 cm. long, 3–3.5 mm. wide at the base, densely adpressed silky pubescent all over save at the base inside; inner shorter, narrower and more subulate, 1.1–1.2 cm. long, 3–3.5 mm. wide, the apical part almost linear, 8–9 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, tomentose save for base.. Stamens linear, 1–1.5 mm. long; connective-prolongation capitate, rugulose.. Carpels 7–10; ovary cylindric or flattened, 1.5 mm. long, adpressed pilose; style about equalling the ovary, cylindric, pilose.. Fruiting pedicels 6 mm. long; monocarps 3–10, green and pruinose outside, scarlet inside, cylindric or obovoid, 1–2.5 cm. long, 0.6–1.3 cm. wide, slightly curved, obtuse, several-seeded, glabrous, finely rugose, obliquely striate; stipes 2–2.5 mm. long.. Seeds yellow or yellow-brown, ellipsoid, ± 1 cm. long.