Distribution and habitat: Found throughout India  in dry deciduous forests up to 1500 m

Botany:  Thorny deciduous tree, a low, much branched, thorny, deciduous tree with spreading crown, dark greyish black bark having irregular cracks and strong reddish hardwood. 

• Leaves : Oblong elliptic, ovate or sub-orbicular, minutely serrulate or apex distinctly toothed, prominently 3 nerved;
• Flowers: Greenish yellow in axillary dense fascicles or sessile or short peduncled cymes; fruits oblong, globose or ovoid drupes, turning from yellow to orange and finally red, the fleshy pulp enclosing a hard stone.

Uses: 

• Root is used in fever, wounds, ulcers, cephalalgia.
• Bark is used in dysentery, diarrhea, gingivitis and boils.
• Leaves are useful in stomatitis, wounds, syphilitic ulcers, asthma, typhoid fever, diarrhea and obesity.
• Fruits are used in burning sensation, hyperdipsia, consumption, vomiting, constipation, flatulence, dyspepsia, nausea, leprosy, skin diseases, pruritus, wounds and ulcers, hemorrhages and general debility.
• Seeds are used in encephalopathy, ophthalmopathy, dypsia, cough, asthma, wounds, burning sensation, diarrhea, vomiting, leucorrhoea, general debility and insomnia.

Propagation: Seeds or by budding on suitable root stock