Description: Large trees, bole buttressed. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tip of branchlets. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary racemes. Fruit a drupe, oblong or ellipsoid, green, ferrugenous tomentose, stones single, compressed, coarsely tuberculate, 1-2 celled.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Along banks of streams in evergreen and shola forests
Flowering & Fruiting: December-August
Parts used: Bark, seeds and fruits
Properties & Uses: Anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-anxiety and analgesic. Decoction of the bark is used as a remedy for rheumatism, indigestion and biliousness. Stem bark is given for inducing abortion until the third month of pregnancy. Stem bark is given after delivery as an antiseptic. Fruits and seeds used to treat rheumatism, typhoid fever and epilepsy.