Discoclaoxylon hexandrum (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.

Small tree 3–10 m tall, twigs glabrous, pale green. Leaves long-petioled, membranous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margin closely and shortly or occasionally distinctly glandular-toothed, 18–38 cm long, 7-15 cm wide, rather dark green, paler and finely verrucose beneath, petioles purplish when young, glabrous; lateral nerves 8–12 pairs, rather spreading, raised beneath; petiole glabrous, 2.5-4 cm long near the apices of the twigs, 6-15 cm (occasionally 30 cm) long on the branches below; stipules very minute. Flowers in axillary spike-like racemes, 20–50 cm long; racemes peduncled; peduncles 6–4 cm long and rhachis closely and softly adpressed-pubescent; bracteoles ovate, cuspidate, densely pubescent, each subtending a fascicle of 3–7 male flowers or a solitary female flower; fascicles at first close set, at length 6– 8 mm apart: pedicels densely pubescent, males at length 4– 5.5 mm long; females 1/16, in fruit 1/10 in. long. Male calyx whitish-green; densely pubescent, depressed-globose in bud; lobes 4, divided nearly to the base. Stamens often 6, occasionally 7–8, outer 4, the rest central; filaments short, surrounded by a ring of glands connate in a distinct crenulate extra-staminal cup, the margin hirsute with short white hairs. Female calyx green, densely pubescent; lobes 4, ovate, acute. Ovary densely velvety, 2-celled; stigmas 2, very slightly united at the base, suborbicular, stellately and plumosely fimbriate. Disk of 2 thick fleshy reniform lobes, organically united around the base of the ovary. Capsule 2-coccous, didymous, 12 mm across, tawny velvety; cocci opening loculicidally. Seeds globose, smooth.