Distribution: Indo-Myanmar; cultivated in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Africa and the Hawaiian Islands
Description: Large trees; bark thick, reddish-brown, rough, exfoliating in large flakes. Leaves paripinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal or axillary drooping panicles. Fruit a capsule, 5-valved; seeds many, oblong, thin, winged at both ends.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
Flowering & Fruiting: February-May
Parts used: Bark
Properties & Uses: Bark is aphrodisiac, expectorant. Bark is used to treat headache, fever, itching, biliousness, scabies, chronic infantile dysentery, cough and ulcers.