Distribution and habitat: Found in outer Himalaya from the Jumna east wards, Assam

Botany: A small evergreen tree, bark smooth, yellowish white, branches slender. 

• Leaves: Imparipinnate, 10-18 cm long. Petioles glabrous. Leaflets 3-7, alternate, ovate elliptic, glabrous and shining.
• Flowers: Fragrant, campanulate, solitary or in terminal and axillary corymbs. Sepals small, glandular, oblong, obtuse. Petals white, 1.3-2 cm long, oblong- lanceolate, erect at the base, subobtuse, upper half spreading.
• Fruit: Berry 1.3-2 cm diameter, oblong or ovoid, pointed smooth, one celled, 2 seeded, red when ripe

Chemical constituents: α-pinene, methyl salicylate, β-cyclocitral, δ-elemene, α-cubebene

Properties: Antidiarrhoeal, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, antinociceptive

Uses: It is used in dropsy, dysentery, diarrhea, snake bite, bodyache. The essential oil was reported to possess anti-amoebic activity.       

Propagation: Cuttings and seeds