Distribution and Habitat: Found throughout India, Sri-Lanka, Myanmar

Botany: It is a polygamous large spreading deciduous tree, tender parts pubescent

• Leaves:  Elliptic-ovate, acuminate, base rounded or sub cordate.
• Flowers:  Greenish yellow in short racemes or fasicles on the leafless branches.
• Fruits: Sub orbicular samara with membraneous wings. Seeds flat, exalbuminous.

Properties:  It is acrid, anthelmintic, anti-inflammatory, astringent, bitter, carminative, depurative, digestive, laxative, revulsive  and thermogenic.

Chemical constituents: 

• Bark: β- Sitosterol, friedelin, epifriedelinol, Heart wood:hederagenin
• Leaf- β- amyrin, β-sitosterol, hexacosanol, octacosanol
• Seeds: Carbohydrates , pigments, oils 

Uses: It is used in bone fracture, rheumatism, skin disease, scorpion sting, hydrocele, ulcers, vomiting, bile disorders, piles, polyuria, wounds and pimples

Propagation: By seeds.