Distribution and habitat: Cultivated in India and Malay Peninsula

Botany: Tree, about 4.5-6 m tall, with erect branches at the top; branchlets slender. 

•    Leaves: Distichous thin, obliquely ovate acute, base rounded, tip acute, 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, light green. Petioles 2.5 mm long.
•   Flowers: Very small in slender racemes 5 cm long from the thick branches. Sepals orbicular, pink at base. Disk of male of large glands; of females annular crenate.
•   Fruits: Yellow green, 2.5 cm long, globose, fleshy, acid, obscurely 6-lobed, depressed at both ends.      

Properties: Seed and root are cathartic. The fruits is acrid and astringent.

Uses: It is used in bronchitis, piles, appetite, biliousness.                                                                                                     

Propagation: seed