A medium sized to large, erect tree up to 30 m tall with drooping dark green foliate; bark dark grey with numerous horizontal cracks; young branchlets minutely yellowish-brown pubescent, later glabrous. Leaves 10 to 30 cm long; rachis with gland beneath uppermost pairs of pinnae, and a larger oval gland at the base; pinnae 2 to 8 pairs, 5 to 20 cm long; leaflets 6 to 24 pairs, dark green, pubescent, obliquely oblong, obtuse at base. Flowers yellowish-white, fragrant, sessile, arranged in numerous small 10 to 12 flowered, globose heads; peduncles 6 mm long, solitary or 2 to 4 together, arranged in terminal panicles up to 30 cm long; calyx 1.3 mm long, pubescent; corolla 4 mm long, grey-sillky outside, teeth ovate-lanceolate, acute. Fruit (pod) shortly stalked, 10 to 20 cm long and 2.5 to 3.8 cm wide, thin, flexible, glabrous, reticulately veined, purplish-green when immature, reddish-brown when mature; seeds 6 to 12, broadly ovate, flattened, yellow, 8 mm long and 6 mm wide.

Hypoglycemic (seed); coagulates semen and diuretic (seed extract).

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Echinocystic acid, rhamnose, arabinose and xylose (seed).

For ulcers and leprosy (bark); in cough (leaf); erysipelas, wounds, dyspnoea, and as an antidote for snake bite and food poisoning.

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