Distribution and habitat: Through out India.

Botany: A medium sized deciduous tree 12-15 m in height with gum containing grey bark exfoliating in irregular pieces, and some what crooked trunk 

• Leaf: 3 foliate, leaflets coriaceous, obtuse, glabrous above when old, finely silky and conspicuously reticulately veined beneath;
• Flowers: Have black calyces, each shaped like the beak of a parrot and born closely packed, bright orange red, large, in rigid racemes; Petals are 5-7 cm long, covered with grey pubescens.
• Fruits pods: Thickened at the sutures, containing a single seed

Chemical constituents: 

• Seeds- palasonin and α-amyrin, β-sitosterol, β-sitosterol- β-D-glucopyranoside and sucrose

Uses: Anthelmintic, astringent, aperient, aphrodisiac

• Bark-Anorexia, bone fractures, inflamations, hepatopathy, rectal diseases
• Leaves-  Astringent, pimples, inflammations, anodyne, haemorrhoids
• Flowers- diuretic, burning Sensation, swellings, hyperdipsia
• Seeds- antihelminthic, laxative,Used against epilepsy, flatulence, constipation, diabetes
• Gum- Hyperacidity, general debility, dyspepsia, fever
• Ash of tender branches- Abdominal disorders

Formulations: Arimedas tailam, Balatailam 

Propagation: Seeds and also by root suckers