Trees to 32 m tall.Branchlets glabrous, subglabrous, or puberulent when young. Leaflet blades oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, rarely lanceolate to oblanceolate. Inflorescence pale yellow puberulent. Flowers fragrant.Calyx abaxially gray or pale yellowish gray puberulent or finely gray velutinous. Petals 4, white or pale yellow, with purple or brown spots, sometimes orange toward base or claw reddish, unequal, 2 spatulate to oblong and 2 oblong-obovate or obovate, abaxially gray puberulent or velutinous. Stamens filament glabrous; anther Style glabrous, subglabrous, sparsely puberulent, or tomentose. Capsule yellowish brown, ovoid to obovoid, subglobose, or depressed globose, dotted but smooth; pericarp thick after drying. Seed usually 1, brown, globose, subglobose, or depressed globose.

Abortifacient (root); alleviates spasms (seed and EtOH aerial part extract); diuretic and on respiration (EtOH aerial part extract); toxic to fish (bark).

Oleanolic acid, kaemperol, quercetin, beta-sitosterol, barringrogenol and fatty acids (seed).

For ear problems (leaf decoction); in fever, fish poisoning (leaf and bark).

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.