Distribution and habitat: Naturalized and wild in tropical parts of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan

Botany:  A medium sized tree. 

• Leaves: Alternate, petioled, paripinnate with 5-17 pairs of leaflets.
• Flowers: Small. Berries cucumber shaped, greenish yellow, 5-lobed, about 50 mm long, sour and juicy, few flattened seeded.

Uses: The fruit is astringent, stomachic, refrigerant.  Fruit in the form of curry is useful in piles and scurvy.

Propagation: By seeds, stem cuttings