Nigaki

R.R. Stewart and Parker have reported it from Pakistan but I have not come across with any material. It may be found in N.E. areas adjacent to Indian Punjab.

A large shrub or small tree, up to 10 m high, almost glabrous except the young inflorescence and branches. Leaves unequally pinnate, scarcely pubescent, 19-37 cm long; leaflets 4-15 pairs, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, membranous, 5-7.5 x 2-3.5 cm, lower leaflets small; petiolules small, 1-2 mm long or sometimes longer. Flowers c. 7 mm in diameter, pedicel 7-8 mm long. Calyx: sepals 5, much smaller than petals, c. 1 mm Fong, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla: petals (4-) 5(-6), glabrous, ovate-obovate or rarely lanceolate, valvate. Stamens (4-) 5, arising from a thick disc. Ovary with 3-5 free carpels. Fruit a drupe, black.

Trees, deciduous, up to 10 m tall; bark purplish brown, smooth, with gray stripes. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, 15-30 cm; stipules lanceolate, early deciduous; leaflets 9-15; blades ovate-lanceolate or broadly ovate, base cuneate, oblique except for terminal leaflet, both surfaces glabrous except abaxially pubescent on midrib or lateral veins when young, then glabrescent, apex acuminate; leaf scar conspicuous, semirounded or rounded. Flowers dioecious, in axillary cymes; rachis densely yellow-brown puberulent. Sepals 4 or 5, small, ovate or oblong, abaxially yellow-brown puberulent, imbricate. Petals as many as sepals, ovate or broadly ovate, both surfaces with midrib puberulent. Stamens 2 × as long as petals in males, shorter than petals in females, opposite sepals. Disk 4- or 5-lobed. Carpels 4 or 5, free. Druparium blue-green when ripe, globose, 6-8 × 5-7 mm, calyx persistent, testa thin. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Sep.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), Assam, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan.

Distribution: India (Himalaya from Chanab eastwards, 4-8000 ft), S. China.

Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bhutan, India, Japan, Kashmir, Korea, Nepal, Sri Lanka].

2000-3000 m

Mountainous mixed forests; 1400-3200 m.