Morphology

Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bark reddish-brown mottled with green; blaze red; branchlets sericeous. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, crowded at the end of branchlets, estipulate; rachis 12-44.6 cm long, stout, pubescent, swollen at base, grooved above till the lowest leaf pairs, leaflets 7-15, opposite, estipellate; petiolule 5-13 mm, odd one upto 20 mm, slender; lamina 4.5-25 x 2.5-6.5 cm, lowest pair smaller, ovate-oblong or oblanceolate, base oblique, acute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, undulate, coriaceous, glabrous above and glabrescent beneath; lateral nerves 7-13 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamodioecious, white; panicles to 70 cm long, axillary, drooping; pedicel 2-6 mm long; sepals 5, orbicular, thick; petals 3, white, orbicular; staminal tube 4 mm long, globose; anthers 6, oblong, included; ovary superior, ovoid, pubescent, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; stigma 3-lobed, subsessile. Fruit a capsule 2.5-3.5 x 3 cm, 3-lobed, glabrous yellow or purplish; seeds 2 or 3, oblong, with a scarlet aril

West Sepik, East Sepik, Madang, Morobe, Western Highlands, Eastern Highlands, Southern Highlands, Western, Gulf, Central, Northern, Milne Bay, New Britain, New Ireland & Manus., from Asia and Oceania China, Bhutan, India Sri Lanka, Indochina, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Within India, Goa, Nagpur. China, Malaysia, Vietnam and Laos

Enlargment of gland, liver and spleen disorder