Gmelina arborea

Trees about 15 m tall;bark grayish brown;branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences densely yellow-brown tomentose. Branchlets slightly 4-angled when young, becoming terete, lenticellate, leaf scars prominent. Petiole terete, 3.5-10 cm;leaf blade broadly ovate, 8-19 X 4.5-15 cm, thickly papery, base broadly cuneate to subcordate, apex acuminate;veins 3-5 pairs, abaxially prominent. Inflorescences terminal, narrow thyrses;peduncle 15-30 cm. Calyx 3-5 mm, with several black discoid gland patches;teeth 5, sharply triangular. Corolla yellow, 3-4 cm, 2-lipped, sparsely glandular;lower lip 3-lobed, outside yellowish brown puberulent, inside glabrous;upper lip entire or slightly 2-cleft. Ovary glabrous, glandular. Stigma unequally 2-cleft. Drupes yellow when ripe and black when dry, ellipsoid to obovoid-ellipsoid, 1.5-2 cm (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2016).