Distribution and habitat:  Throughout India.

Botany: A medium sized deciduous tree up to 20 m in height with grey smooth bark, peeling off in scales. 

• Leaves: Pinnate, leaf lets 2-3 pairs, terminal pair being the largest.
• Flowers  : white, polygamous, male flowers many, bisexual flowers few, all in the same pubescent panicle.
• Fruits : Fleshy drupes, the pulp becoming a saponaceous wrinkled rind on drying.
•  Seeds : Black.

Chemical constituents: Saponins- sapindoside A and sapindoside B. Nut contain Kaempferol, quercetin and β-sitosterol.Saponin emarginatoside from fruits.

Uses: 

• The root and bark are expectorant and demulscent.
• The fruits are acrid, bitter, thermogenic, emetic, astringent, expectorant and tonic.
• Treatment of Hysteria, epilepsy and hemicrania, ulcers, asthma, diarrhoea, cholera, verminosis, lumbago and gastralgia

Propagation: Seeds