Distribution and Habitat: Found throughout India.

Botany: A moderate sized to fairly large glabrous deciduous tree, armed with strong, straight, axillary spines, having a much branched dense crown of dark foliage and dark grey longitudinally furrowed rough wrinkled bark.

• Leaves: Compound, imparipinnate, alternate, rachis narrowly winged, leaflets 3-7, obovate, crenulate, tip often notched, gland dotted.
• Flowers: Small, fragrant, dull red, polygamous in lateral and terminal pubescent panicles.
• Fruits: Globose, woody, rough, grey coloured berries, seeds oblong, compressed, embedded in the pulp.
• The gum obtained from the trunk and branches of the tree after the rainy season is known as “Feronia gum” with reddish brown to pale yellow colour. 

Properties: Antiscorbutic, antibilious, demulcent.

Chemical constituents: Geranyl umbeliferone and bergapten

Uses: vitiated conditions of pitta, gastropathy, anorexia, vomiting, hiccough, cardiac debility

Pharyngodynia, pruritus, gingivitis, tumours, ulcers, anorexia, gastropathy, haemorrhoids, diabetes, dysentery       

Propagation: By seeds