Distribution and habitat: Throughout India

Botany: A medium sized unarmed tree about 20 m height with dark coloured young shoots and grey, rough, irregularly cracked bark with dark patches. 

• Leaves: Abruptly pinnate, alternate, main rachis with a gland on the upper side near its basal part and often with similar glands at the base of the first two pairs of the pinnae, leaflets unequal-sided, rounded or semicordate at base, obtuse or rounded at the apex, dark green, slightly pubescent above.
• Flowers:  White, fragrant, sessile, numerous in small globose 5-10 or more flowered heads, in corymbiform spreading panicles. Fruits shortly stalked pods, brown, slightly reticulately veined. Calyx 1.25 mm long, pubescent; corolla white, 4 mm long, grey silky outside.  Stamens twice as long as the corolla; filaments pale yellow, connate at the base into a tube half as long as the corolla tube.
• Seeds:  Flat, yellow.

Chemical constituents: 

• Stem- dark brown insoluble gum in the form of rounded tears
• Heartwood– d-O-penta-methyl-dihydromelanoxetin
• Seed-two trioterpenic acids, machacrinic acid.

Uses: Bark is astringent, arid, departure, and expectorant. Used in ulcers, leprosy, skin diseases, bronchitis, burning sensation.                                                  

Propagation: Seeds